The BRSQ, 2008

2008 performances

November 9, 4 pm. Locktown Stone Church. Locktown, NJ. Program: Tango and More.

Sept. 27, 3 pm. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. 499
Van Brunt St. in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (718) 596-2507. Program: Kingerama: The Songs of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

Sept. 15, 8 pm. Ratner Museum. Bethesda, MD. Mozart Quintet K. 462. With Carl Banner, PhD and Washington Musica Viva.

May 25, 3 pm. Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition. 499 Van Brunt St. in Red Hook, Brooklyn. (718) 596-2507. Program: Kingerama: The Songs of Carole King and Gerry Goffin.

April 13, 4 pm. St. Jacobi Lutheran Bklyn, 5406 Fourth Avenue (between 54th & 55th Streets - Sunset Park area)Phone: (718) 439-8978. Program: Tango and More.

March 30, 5-6 pm. "Delroy and All That Jazz." Benefit concert at Brooklyn Heights Synagogue 131 Remsen St. Brooklyn, NY

March 20, 7-9 pm at at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden. Address: 24-14 24th Ave. in Astoria.

February 3, 4 pm at First Congregational Church of Greenwich; Old Greenwich, CT. (203) 637.1791. Program: Four Seasons, Four Saxes, New Four-Casts, Charley Gerard's version of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

January 11, 8 pm at Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. Program: Four Seasons, Four Saxes, New Four-Casts. Admission: $20/$5 children.

January 10, noon. Morristown United Methodist Church. Morristown, NJ. Program: Comic-Book Characters: Music Inspired by Batman, Peanuts, the Simpsons and Archie.

2007 Performances

Oct. 20, 2 pm at the Long Island City branch of Queens Library. Address: 37-44 21st Street, L.I.C. (718) 752-3700. Program: Jazz and Swing for 4 Saxes.

Oct. 27, 3:30 pm at the Broadway branch of Queens Library. Address: 40-20 Broadway, L.I.C. (718) 721-2462. Program: Tango and More: Music of Brazil (Nogueira), Cuba (Cervantes and medley by Gerard), Argentina (Piazzolla), and Mexico (d'Rivera and Gerard).

Sept. 27, 6-9 at Bohemian Hall and Beer Garden. Address: 24-14 24th Ave. in Astoria.

June 10, Saturday at 3 pm: Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition. The premiere of the program Comic Book Characters: Music Inspired by Superman, Batman, Archie, Tin Tin and Peanuts. With guest artist poet Caroline Hagood.

May 13, Sunday, at 4 PM: St. Jacobi Lutheran Bklyn, 5406 Fourth Avenue (between 54th & 55th Streets - Sunset Park area)Phone: (718) 439-8978. Program: Program: Four Seasons, Four Saxes, New Four-Casts. Charley Gerard's adaptation of Vivaldi's music. Free admission

May 4, Friday, 7:30. Croton Free Library.171 Cleveland Drive, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520 914-271-6612. Program: Gumbo Sax-New Orleans Music from Jelly Roll Morton to Rhythm n' Blues. With drummer Todd Isler. Free admission.

April 27, Friday, 8:30 pm: The River Room of Harlem, a restaurant located at Riverside Drive at 145th St. (It's not really in Harlem!) It's part of Riverbank State Park and overlooks the Hudson. Program: Jazz and Swing for 4 Saxes.212.491.1500. Dinner plus $5 music charge www.theriverroomofharlem.

March 17 at Library at Lincoln Center's Bruno Walter Auditorium. "Music of Alec Wilder for Saxophone Quartet and More." With guest artists mezzo-soprano Elena McEntire, baritone Evan Sarzin, violist Eva Gerard and pianist Evan Shinners.

February 24 at Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch for a Saturday 1:00 concert. "Gumbo Sax: the music of New Orleans from Jelly Roll Morton to rhythm n' blues." With guest artist Todd Isler, drums and percussion.

2236 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvs. (aka 7th Ave.) at 131st Street. "Jazz and swing for 4 saxes." With guest artist Claire Daly.

Nov. 4 at Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Heights Branch for a 1:00 concert. "Gumbo Sax: the music of New Orleans from Jelly Roll Morton to rhythm n' blues." With guest artist Todd Isler, drums and percussion.

Nov. 11 at EZ Woodshed, 2236 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Blvs. (aka 7th Ave.) at 131st Street. "Jazz and swing for 4 saxes.

August 11 at Pierson Park on the Hudson River in Tarrytown, NY. An all-jazz program.

August 9 at Solar One east of the FDR Drive at 23rd St., NYC. "Four Seasons, Four Saxes, New Four-Casts"

July 22 Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition. The premiere of Charley Gerard's "Four Seasons, Four Saxes, New Four-Casts" based on Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

April 7 at the Boulton Center In Bay Shore, Long Island. Program: 60s Rock Reconfigured.

February 18 at North Pointe in Kinderhook, NY. for an 8PM concert. Chosen as Pick of the Week by the Albany Times Union. Program: 60s Rock Reconfigured.

January 15 at the Donnell Library for a 2:30 performance. With guest artist Charles Coleman, baritone, in a program of Ellington and Gershwin.













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