From Bach to Miles Davis

The ECC (Education & Community Center) of the Korean Church of Boston, (32 Harvard St, Brookline) is presenting music from the Cello Students of The Lexington Community Education Music School and Robert Rivera as part of an ongoing series of free live music performances.

Robert Rivera and his students will perform a variety of pieces including music from Bach to Miles Davis and an original work by Robert Rivera.

The Concert is free and open to all music lovers in Brookline neighborhood. The performance will start at 7:00 pm. The cafe will also be serving light desserts, coffee and tea.

Please join us in enjoying music and getting to know each other!!!

Encore performance of Ruth : the Musical

We are presenting an encore performance of "Ruth: The Musical" on February 25th 2012 at 7:30 in the Children's Chapel at the Educational and Community Center (4 p.m. open dress rehearsal will also be held on the same date). The musical will feature all original music by Robin Cho and lyrics and direction by Woong S. Lee and is based on the biblical story of Ruth.Ruth (played by Mi Hye Lee) is a Moabite widow who chooses to stay with Naomi, her mother-in-law, and follow her back to her ancestral home of Bethlehem. Through her sacrifice, Ruth finds God's protection, a new family, and love.The one-act musical -performed in English - features a cast and crew from the Korean Church of Boston and is free and open to the public although donations are welcome. The strong positive reaction to the first performance musical and continued requests for another showing has prompted the church to stage the performance one more time. The musical continues the tradition of musical and cultural performances at KCB dedicated to enriching the Brookline community and the church's mission of building fellowship with its neighbors.

Highlights from recent Oasis cafe performances

Cerebral, cool jazz-funk of Racha Fora, led by the Berklee-NEC trained veteran Hiro Honshuku.

Firery, passionate jazz-tango music from Aires de Argentina, an up-and-coming group of five young Berklee musicians.

Their full performance is available here.

Scenes from Racha Fora performance

Racha Fora's take on well-known Holiday carols

Oasis Cafe presents "Racha Fora" as part of Brookline 1st Light Festival [November 17, 7 pm]

As part of the annual 1st Light Festival, ECC presents the group "Racha Fora" (pronounced Hasha Fora) on November 17, from 7 PM to 8 PM in the community hall. The group consists of Hiroaki Honshuku on flute, Rika Ikeda on violin, Mauricio Andrade on guitar, Rafael Russi on bass, and Fernando Saci on percussion. Hiro, the leader of the group, is a veteran Berklee/NEC musician and is a faculty member at the Longy school of music. His mentors include Dave Holland as well as the jazz pianist/composer George Russell, a leader of the influential "third stream" movement in modern jazz and an influence on Miles Davis' Kind of Blue album.

According to a critic, Rach Fora's music is "at once delicate and propulsive, acoustic and electronic, and fleet of finger and mind". Come and enjoy the exciting music while enriching your mind at the same time. By shaking hands with Hiro, you will also substantially reduce your degree of separation from jazz legends such as Russell, Mingus, Bill Evans, and Eric Dolphy!

For more information about the group, look into their interesting Facebook page.

I-Yun Chung, the leader of Aires de Argentina to be part of the benefit concert held at ECC Chapel

I-Yun Chung, the leader of the group Aires de Argentina, is back from her travel and gigs in Switzerland and is to perform in a benefit concert to be held in ECC main chapel this Thursday at 7 pm. This time, she is part of the classical ensemble which includes Rosie Samter (viola) and the Beacon String trio, playing music by Bach and Schumann.

The event, organized by Rose and her colleagues, is not affiliated with ECC programs, but since a friend is participating for a good cause (to sponsor an orphanage in Tanzania), we would like many of ECC friends to come and be part of it!

The details can be found at their Facebook invite page.

Music and Scenes from Ruth : the Musical

[The highlights from the evening, 14 minutes; beginning with the scenes from the last rehearsal to the after-the-performance gaiety.]

[The actual performance. Running time: 1 hr 6 minutes.] If you find that your network connection doesn't allow a smooth playing, you may consider downloading it and play it from your machine. See below* for further instructions.

Hope you re-experience the fun and music and share it with your friends who couldn't come!

*The video for the whole performance is pretty large. If you would like to download it or its higher resolution version, you may do so at our vimeo page. There, go to one of the video pages, and on the right-bottom of the page, you will find a box with a name "About this video". In it, there is a link named "download this video". Depending on the browser, clicking on the link will just open a new window and start showing the video. In that case, you may need to right-click on that "download this video" link (on windows), or cntrl-click (on Macs) to bring up further options. There, select "Download linked file as" or its equivalent to save the file where you want. To play, you may need to have installed Quicktime on the machine, which will most likely have been installed already.