MYSTERIES OF TIBETAN

SINGING BOWLS

Lecture / Demonstration / Performance

Raphael Mostel’s

MUSIC FOR THE OCTOBER MOON

Sunday Oct 31, 2010 at 3 p.m.

Free with Metropolitan Museum admission

was founded in 1982 in New York City by composer Raphael Mostel. The Ensemble is named after

its core instruments, the Tibetan singing bowls. John Schaefer of WNYC praised the music as “timeless,

yet completely original and individual.. primal and eerily familiar... unlike anything else you may year

in a concert hall.” It moved John Cage to write: “it is so beautifuL.”

                                                                                                   More About: The Tibetan Singing Bowl Ensemble

is a composer, writer and lecturer based in New York City. His music has been performed

by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Brass; his "Travels of Babar," which uses the beloved 1932 picturebook, has been hailed by The New York Times as "the 21st century's 'Peter and the Wolf;'" Mostel was the first American invited to compose for, and perform at,

the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan ceremonies commemorating the victims of the atom bombs.

With architect Steven Holl, he has taught "Architectonics of Music" at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture. Mostel's latest recording, "Night and Dawn," performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Brass Ensemble has just been released on CD.

                                                                                                                              More about: Raphael Mostel

is a tax-exempt 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization under the laws of the State of New York.

It is dedicated to bringing quality music, especially acoustic music, to the public. 

                                                                                                                             More about: Source Music, Inc

                                                  contact: TSBEnsemble (at) gmail.com