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Christmas Angelicus, Holiday Schedule

Wed, 12/12/2018 - 11:03am
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Christmas Angelicus, Holiday Schedule 
Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m., St. Michael’s Church, 25 South St. Litchfield, Conn.
Dec. 15, 4 p.m., Collinsville Congregational Church, Collinsville, Conn.
Dec. 16, 4 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 30 Main St., Salisbury, Conn. 
 
Dec. 21, 7:30 p.m.,  St. Patrick - St. Anthony Church, 285 Church St., Hartford, Conn. 
Dec. 22, 4 p.m., Trinity Episcopal Church, 220 Prospect St., Torrington, Conn. 

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Darlingside at Infinity Hall

Wed, 12/05/2018 - 10:31am
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The indie band Darlingside will be at Norfolk’s Infinity Hall on Dec.6; doors open at 7 p.m. For tickets go to www.infinityhall.com. Coined by NPR Music as “poetic” and “evocative of feeling,”  Darlingside makes smart music, filled with lyrical depth and various instruments ranging from alto flute to the mandocello. With its’ genre-defying mix of traditional folk, indie rock, chamber pop, and Americana, the concert promises to be a unique experience. 

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Perkins’ Music At Crescendo Concerts This Weekend

Wed, 11/07/2018 - 10:55am
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By
Fred Baumgarten

A beautiful trumpet solo introduces the Kyrie from Simon Perkins’ “New England Requiem.” 
Those notes are both immediately familiar — the sound of wide spaces associated with American composers like Copland — and something new. Woodwinds join in with tighter spacing, mixing in seconds and thirds, adding complexity and pain. Soon comes the chorus, first echoing the trumpet entrance, then breaking out in rich chords. The placid, comforting mood of this mass for the dead remains dominant.

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Landowska Tribute in Lakeville

Wed, 10/03/2018 - 10:05am
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Fred Baumgarten

Coming up on the 140th anniversary of her birth (next July 5), Wanda Landowska still remains unknown to many Americans although the Polish-born harpsichord virtuoso spent many productive years based in Lakeville, Conn., performing and teaching locally as well as in New York City. No one did more to revive interest in the Baroque keyboard instrument, after it had spent a couple hundred years in the shadows of its flashier cousin, the piano.

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Music Mountain Season Still Going

Wed, 09/12/2018 - 9:31am
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fred baumgarten

Two more weeks of chamber music and jazz remain in the Music Mountain season, Falls Village’s bucolic concert getaway.
I caught up with the hyperactive artistic director, Oskar Espina-Ruiz, as he was flying back to his home base in North Carolina, where he teaches clarinet in the UNC music school, for a brief stay. He immediately turned his attention to the celebrated American String Quartet, which makes its Music Mountain debut on September 16.

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Leaf Peeper Concerts Season Preview

Wed, 09/05/2018 - 9:46am
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Kevin McEneaney

Clarion Concerts, a non-profit organization, will stage its 37th fall season of Leaf Peeper Concerts, a classical and contemporary music series directed by flutist Eugenia Zukerman. This inexpensive series is noted for its variety and the caliber of performers.

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John Williams and Yo Yo Ma Pay Tribute to Bernstein

Wed, 08/15/2018 - 1:03pm
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Fred Baumgarten

In July, Leonard Bernstein’s most beloved score, “West Side Story,” was performed live by the Boston Symphony Orchestra to accompany a screening of the 1961 movie. The rousing music had its full effect, and gave the amazing Jerome Robbins’ choreography a kick. Also amazing is the technology that stripped only the orchestration from the film, leaving everything else, including the singers’ voices, intact.

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New Baroque Soloists at St. John’s church

Wed, 07/18/2018 - 9:55am

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Hotchkiss Summer Portals Opens An Impressive Season

Wed, 07/11/2018 - 9:47am
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Fred Baumgarten

Hotchkiss School’s Summer Portals Concert Series returns this year with an impressive lineup of performers and repertory. The concerts, free and open to the public, are part of a summer piano program that brings aspiring young musicians, ages 11-19, from around the world to Hotchkiss for two weeks of intensive lessons, masterclasses, and recitals, under the auspices of a world-class piano faculty.

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Norfolk Music Festival Features Dawn Upshaw

Wed, 07/11/2018 - 9:41am
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Fred Baumgarten

World War I ended. The flu killed up to 100 million people worldwide. Claude Debussy died. Leonard Bernstein was born. So was Ray Charles.
The year was 1918, and it ushered in an interwar period of intense creativity and, among the ashes of “the war to end all wars,” deep questioning of humanity, art, and music. (The following year, Dali would paint a moustache on the Mona Lisa.)

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