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Acclaimed String Quartet ETHEL Premieres Music by Four Winners of its HomeBaked Composition Competition

as Part of Brooklyn Public Library’s Young Composers Festival

WHEN: Saturday-Sunday, December 11-12 at 4:00 p.m. EST WHERE: Central Library, Dweck Center, 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, Trains: 2/3/B/Q HOW: FREE. RSVP in advance suggested. For more information, visit BklynLibrary.org  or call 718.YOUR.BPL. Please check BPL’s website for the latest COVID policies. WHAT: In collaboration with ETHEL’s Foundation for the Arts, BPL presents new works by commissioned New York City-based composers from the most recent round of ETHEL’s HomeBaked commissioning initiative. Music by violinist Sarah Goldfeather (Goldfeather, Oklahoma!) and  interdisciplinary artist Sugar Vendil (Nouveau Classical Project) will premiere on Saturday, December 11th, followed by works by pianist Nailah Nombeko and Simon Brown (Orchestrating Dreams) on Sunday, December 12th. Recognizing the quartet’s role in engaging the contemporary conversation around compositional thought and practice, ETHEL created HomeBaked in 2010. From its founding, ETHEL has collaborated with and commissioned an ever-expanding list of musicians and composers; and continues to support artists at all stages of their careers. Each of the four HomeBaked IV composers here curated programs of their own work, performed by cutting-edge performers and members of ETHEL.

ETHEL’S HomeBaked initiative is made possible, in large part, by the generosity of the Jerome Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Brooklyn Public Library gratefully acknowledges the many donors who have provided generous support for BPL Presents programs, including: Cheryl and George Haywood Endowment for Cultural Diversity, The Kahn Endowment for Humanities Programs, The Miriam Katowitz and Arthur Radin Fund, Los Blancos, Mapleton Endowment, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Sandra and Peter Schubert Endowment Fund, The Morris & Alma Schapiro Fund, The Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, the Estate of Pearl S. Reuillard in memory of her parents Yetta and Louis Schwartz, the Brooklyn Eagles—a group of young and engaged supporters of Brooklyn Public Library and many other generous supporters. Programs are also supported by Brooklyn Public Library’s Fund for the Humanities which was established through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities; The Hearst Foundation, Inc.; Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation; The Starr Foundation; the Leon and Muriel Gilbert Charitable Trust; Henry and Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.; and a gift in memory of Samuel and Pauline Wine.