Sonidos Latinos
Sonidos Latinos, Caramoor's adventurous two-year Latin American Music Initiative, is now in its second year and has been made possible with generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
Fazioli Piano
Pianists at this year's Caramoor Jazz Festival will play the Fazioli F-278 piano, courtesy of Klavierhaus, Inc., 211 West 58th Street, in New York City. Each Fazioli piano is hand made over a three year period and fewer than 100 instruments are available worldwide each year. Klavierhaus is the authorized dealer for Fazioli Pianoforti of Sacile, Italy. www.klavierhaus.com.
ABOUT CARAMOOR
Caramoor is the legacy of Walter and Lucie Rosen, who built the great house and filled it with their treasures. Walter Rosen was the master planner for the Caramoor estate, bringing to reality his dream of creating a place to entertain friends from around the world. Their musical evenings were the seeds of today's International Music Festival. Realizing the pleasure their friends took in the beauty of Caramoor - the house with its art collection, the gardens, and the musical programs on summer evenings - the Rosens established a Foundation to open Caramoor to the public in perpetuity.
Lucie Rosen survived her husband by seventeen years. During those years, she expanded the Music Festival: the Spanish Courtyard was used as a setting for musical events, as it is today, and, under her direction, the great stage of the Venetian Theater was built.
Caramoor is a Garden of Great Music. “We invite people to come early, explore our beautiful grounds, take a tour of the House Museum, visit our gift shop, enjoy a pre-concert picnic, and discover beautiful music in a relaxed setting," advises Paul Rosenblum, Caramoor's Managing Director. With its unique heritage, Caramoor remains a place where magical summer days and nights are shared and enjoyed by thousands. “Caramoor is the loveliest Festival of them all." - The New York Times
Art and Gardens
Concerts take place in two outdoor theaters - the large, acoustically superb Venetian Theater, and the more intimate, romantic Spanish Courtyard. Caramoor is more than just music - there is beauty at every turn. The House Museum, the former summer home of Caramoor's founders, Lucie and Walter Rosen, contains a vast collection of Renaissance, 18th-century, and Eastern art objects - furniture, tapestries, sculpture, paintings, textiles, porcelain and jade. There are entire rooms that were imported from European palaces and villas. In fact, Caramoor is one of just five mansions in the country that incorporate entire rooms into its collection, twenty of which are open to the public. On Thursdays and Fridays, Afternoon Tea is served in the Summer Dining Room, overlooking the charming Spanish Courtyard.
Caramoor's gardens are also well worth the visit. Nine unique perennial gardens -- including a Sense Circle for the visually handicapped, a Butterfly Garden, a Medieval Mount, and two gardens whose special characteristics are enjoyed primarily at night may be seen on a guided tour or on one's own.
Picnicking at Caramoor
Extend your Caramoor experience by arriving for concerts early and enjoying a picnic amidst the beautiful gardens. Pre-purchase picnics from Great Performances at 212.337.6055.
House Museum
Guided tours of the House Museum are provided from Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm with the last tour at 3 pm. On Saturdays, during the Festival, tours are given from 1:00 pm-5:00 pm, with the last tour at 4:00 pm. Tickets are $10 (children 16 and under free).
GETTING TO CARAMOOR
Caramoor is easy to get to by car and mass transportation.
By car from the West Side of Manhattan and New Jersey, take the Saw Mill River Parkway north to Katonah. Exit at Route 35/Cross River. Turn right, and at the first traffic light make a right turn onto Route 22 south. Travel 1.9 miles to the junction of Girdle Ridge Road. Follow the signs to Caramoor. (For detailed directions call 914.232.5035 and press 2, or online at caramoor.org). Parking at Caramoor is free.
By train, take the Harlem Division of the Metro-North Railroad to Katonah, New York. Taxi service from the station to Caramoor (5 minutes away) is available.
TICKETS
Tickets may be ordered by calling the Box Office at 914.232.1252 or online.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts is located at 149 Girdle Ridge Road, Katonah, New York.
ALL PROGRAMS AND ARTISTS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE
CARAMOOR JAZZ FESTIVAL
August 1 Jazz Festival I Friday, 8:00 p.m. Ahmad Jamal Trio Spanish Courtyard Ahmad Jamal, piano
James Cammack, bass
Idris Muhammad, drum set
August 2 Jazz Festival II Saturday, All Day Great Musical Minds Venetian Theater
3:00 p.m.* Cuban Piano Summit - Elio Villafranca and Chuchito Valdes
4:15 p.m. Mulgrew Miller's Wingspan
5:30 p.m.* 50 Years of Bossa Nova - Ricardo Peixoto and Claudia Villela Dinner Break
8:00 p.m. Wynton Marsalis - trumpet Victor Goines - Saxophone/Clarinet Herlin Riley- Drums Wycliffe Gordon- Trombone Wess “WARMDADDY" Anderson - Saxophone Reginald Veal - Bass Marcus Roberts - Piano
This evening's concert is sponsored, in part, by generous support from Wachovia Wealth Management.
August 3 Jazz Festival III Sunday, All Day Venetian Theater 3:00 p.m. Aaron Diehl and Adam Birnbaum, piano
4:15 p.m. Jimmy Heath Big Band
5:30 p.m.* Michel CamiloTrio with Charles Flores and Dafnis Prieto
* These events are part of Sonidos Latinos, Caramoor's Latin American Music Initiative. Sonidos Latinos is made possible by generous support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors.
For more information contact Cohn Dutcher Associates.
