The Apogee Foundation has been named the top non-profit in the inaugural Fast Pitch! Business Awards. Apogee will continue striving for excellence in its work. Apogee has also partnered with Aurience Ltd. to enhance its use of media and technology. This has increased the exposure of Apogee artists and the impact of its educational programs. Apogee invites readers to get more involved by contacting them.

1. ROMMEL ALAMA
NON-PROFIT GRAPHICS
347-306-3696 º romalama@gmail.com

2. tuesday
june 2
2009
20 th Anniversary Celebration
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Join us as we celebrate 20 years
of community development and honor
longtime partners and friends
Richard Beattie
Professor Lionel McIntyre
Kathryn Wylde
Mortimer Zuckerman
When: Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Where: ADC Renaissance Tent
Tent Entrance on West 135th Street between Lenox Avenue
and Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.
V.I.P. Reception: 6:00 p.m.
Dinner, Program & Dancing: 7:00 p.m.
Festive Attire
4 West 125th street • NeW York, NY 10027 • WWW.adcorp.org

3. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN…
The Average Income of a Harlem Family is $37,000,
Yet the Median Income of a New Homebuyer
In Harlem is $194,000?
A Salon Series
WEDNESDAY JAN. 6

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5. “ConCert Bliss!” — s tat e n i s l a n d a d va n C e
presents
Active culture
free ClassiCal musiC on staten island!
sAt. sept. 19 sAt. oct. 17 fri. nov. 6
8pm 8pm 7:30pm
Precious Metals living Music: art of the fugue &
a russian Music & Poetry event Mcce’s commissioned Premieres baroque trios
music by Glinka, rachmaninoff, tchaikovsky, music by mcce composers-in-residence: Art of the fugue by J.S. Bach
arranged by mcce for flute, oboe, marimba & cello
prokofiev, mussorgsky & shostakovich. language Games by Andrew sterman (2006)
poetry & prose by Akmatova, pasternak, passacaglia by dr. mathew fuerst (2007) trio sonata op. 2 in Bb major by G. f. handel
mayakovsky & pushkin. triptych by mick rossi (2008) Golden sonata by henry purcell
Tamara Keshecki, flute • Clarice Jensen, cello cello suite v in c minor by J.S. Bach
tamara Keshecki & Ann cecil-sterman, flutes
Maria Garcia, piano • Nancy Sima, literary curator Clarice Jensen, cello • Maria Garcia, piano Tamara Keshecki, flute • Clarice Jensen, cello
post-concert discussion: Sandra Pace, piano • Chris Thompson, marimba
pre-concert discussion:
roundtable discussion exploring the correlation between Behind the scenes of classical composition pre-concert discussion:
chamber music and literature in russian culture,
with composers Andrew sterman & mick rossi the intrigues of Bach’s Art of the fugue with mcce musicians.
and the value of the performing arts.
free Admission to All concerts
At the church of the holy child
4747 amboy rd., staten island (corner of amboy rd. & arden ave.)
eltingville stop on sirt • handicapped accessible
Reinventing everything you thought you knew about classical music. www.mcensemble.org
718.907.3488
The residency by MCCE organized in partnership with Holy Child Church has been made possible with support from Chamber Music America’s Residency Partnership Program. Funding has been provided by the JPMorgan Chase Residency Re-Grant
Program, a program of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation, and the Chamber Music America Residency Endowment Fund. Additional funding and support is provided by the Staten Island Foundation, JPMorgan Chase Regrant in partnership with the Council
on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island (COAHSI), Richmond County Savings Foundation, Holy Child Church and the Staten Island Museum. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

6. presents
2010
SprIng SeASon
Sat. 1/9/10 Sat. 3/20/10 Fri. 4/30/10 Sun. 6/13/10
Staten Island Museum Staten Island Museum Staten Island Museum Jacques Marchais
75 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island 75 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island 75 Stuyvesant Place, Staten Island Museum of Tibetan Art
338 Lighthouse Ave., Staten Island
7pm Pre-concert chat with 8pm Concert featuring: 7pm Pre-concert chat with
MCCE’s composer-in-residence Mohammed Fairouz Elizabeth McCullough, soprano; Anthony Turner, baritone MCCE’s composer-in-residence Mohammed Fairouz: 1pm Workshop
8pm Concert with Joseph Kubera, piano; Tamara Keshecki, flute “Living in a Commissioned World” “Chinese Qigong for the Western Music Experience”
Amanda Romano, harp; Tamara Keshecki, flute; and Clarice Jensen, cello 8pm Concert with Andrew Sterman
Clarice Jensen, cello featuring a world premiere commissioned by MCCE
Music by Mozart, Brahms, Fairouz, Debussy, 3pm Concert
Music by Debussy, Ibert, Donizetti and Fairouz by Mohammed Fairouz featuring the commissioned world premiere of
Roussel and William Grant Still
“Even This is Paradise” by Andrew Sterman
Tickets: $15 General; $12 Museum Members;
Tickets: $15 General; $12 Museum Members; Tickets: $15 General; $12 Museum Members;
$5 for students 22 and under (with ID)
$5 for students 22 and under (with ID) $5 for students 22 and under (with ID) Tickets: $20 General; $17 Museum Members;
$5 for students 22 and under (with ID)
www.mcensemble.org • 7 1 8 . 9 0 7 . 3 4 8 8

7. Apogee
NEWSLETTER OF THE APOGEE FOUNDATION
FALL 2009
www.apogeefoundation.org
PAGE 1 OF 2
Apogee Honored as
Top Non-Profit
T
he Apogee Foundation has been named “Top
Non-Profit” in the inaugural Fast Pitch! Business
Awards based on a rigorous 45 day selection pro-
cess by an expert committee that evaluated more than
1,000 nominees in order to recognize those institutions
that had attained best practices and highest distinction
in their fields.
Apogee will continually strive to merit this distinc-
tion by achieving in all of its actions and their results
Apogee President Kenneth Schneider the same high standards of human excellence that the The Apogee Foundation Winner:
Foundation is dedicated to fostering in its beneficiaries ‘Top Non-Profit’ Fast Pitch!
A Note of around the world. Business Awards
Appreciation From Interfusing Performance Arts
Apogee’s President
With Electronic Arts
W
ith this launch of Apogee’s semi-
A
annual newsletters, it is my pleasure pogee has partnered with premier international
to speak directly with the Founda- media & technology group Aurience Ltd. to en-
tion’s many dedicated supporters around the hance the Foundation’s abilities to realize its vision
world. Apogee Information Services subscrib- around the world through film, broadcast, recording and
ers, alone, now number nearly 2,000 persons interactive media.
resident on all six inhabited continents – and Joint Apogee-Aurience productions already have
people from nearly 4,000 cities in 130 coun- broadened the exposure of Apogee Awards laureates, in-
tries and territories have taken an interest in creased the impact of Apogee Academy educational pro-
our programs by means of the Internet. grams, and expanded the penetration of Apogee Artists
This level of participation in and sup- performance events worldwide.
port for Apogee’s mission is a measure of the The Foundation’s recent international concert events
growing, global commitment the Foundation in Odessa served to showcase the new opportunities made
has been able to inspire for achieving man- possible by this collaboration, as command performances by
Apogee Awards laureate Simion
kind’s highest potential through the transfor- Apogee Awards Laureates from five countries were broad- Gronic performing in Apogee Artists
mative power of the creative arts. cast on national radio and television and international video- events co-produced with Aurience
In these semi-annual letters to our sub- casting. This impact will be yet further enhanced through a Media in New Orleans during 2008.
scribers, we will present especially for you the documentary film now being produced by Aurience Media. PHOTO BY MATT ANDERSON © 2008
shared accomplishments of Apogee’s partici-
pants and beneficiaries worldwide – together
with the first glimpses of exciting new direc- Become a Member of the
tions for our future.
We also will invite you to help participate
Global Apogee Family!
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directly in shaping that future through your e therefore invite and encourage you to become increasingly involved in our work.
responses to the questionnaires included in Please do contact us by telephone at +1-646-224-6960 or by e-mail at
each newsletter. info1@apogeefoundation.org if you’re interested in sharing your skills or other
Everyone in the global Apogee family resources with us.
thanks you in advance for your valued par- Once again, thank you for your sincere interest in and generous support of The Apogee
ticipation in ‘recreating the future of human cre- Foundation and its global mission. We look forward to hearing from you and to ‘achieving
ativity’ with us. the potential’ together! —Kenneth Schneider, President