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A family trait of making music
If conductor Jeffrey Kahane led the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra with even more vim and vigor than usual during last weekend's concert at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, he had good reason. The program of new and familiar music on Saturday, April 21...
Tags: Poetry, Arts and Culture, Popular Music (genre), Folk (genre), Concerts
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John Patitucci at the Ives Concert Hall in Danbury
Westconn music students are used to jamming with great musicians, but they're going to get a real treat on Friday when bassist John Patitucci stops by to give a master class and then perform alongside them in the Ives Concert Hall (named after composer...Tags: Music Industry, Western Connecticut State University, Entertainment, Music, Danbury
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The Emerson String Quartet Returns to the Hartt School of Music on Oct. 13
The Emerson String Quartet
Oct. 13, Hartt School of Music, 200 Bloomfield Ave.,
West Hartford, (860) 768-4451, emersonstringquartet.com
Sixteen years ago, at the opening convocation at the Hartt School of Music's Millard Auditorium, I listened in...Tags: Arts, West Hartford, Stony Brook, Arts and Culture, Bloomfield (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Saturday's Calendar
SATURDAY Plant Sale TeWinkle Middle School holds its "Holiday Plant Sale" from 8 a.m. to noon at the TeWinkle campus, 3224 California St., Costa Mesa. Divorcees In This Economy The Women's Institute for Financial Education will offer a free program...Tags: Holidays, The Women (movie, 2008), Culture, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Plenty of passion and suprises from Hilary Hahn at Bach Gala recital
Lehigh Valley MusicViolinist Hilary Hahn loves to mix things up, performing brand new works of vastly different styles shoulder-to-shoulder with the more familiar classics. So it came as no surprise when she informed the audience at Central Moravian Church Saturday night... -
Closeup on Danbury
The Hartford CourantHOW IT GOT ITS NAME: Named for the parish of Danbury in Essex, England, by the Connecticut General Court after rejecting the proposed name of Swampfield, favored by early settlers. ORIGINS: Settled in 1684 when eight families from the Norwalk and...Tags: Ken Green, Laura Nyro, Essex (Middlesex, Connecticut), Danbury, Stamford
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A timeless reality in fairy tales re-imagined
Times Staff Writer"Realism leaves out so much," wrote science-fiction author Joanna Russ in 1995, introducing "The Penguin Book of Modern Fantasy by Women." Russ was making the common feminist argument that fantasy and fairy tale express the inexpressible, especially for...Tags: Death, Culture, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Arts and Culture, Poetry
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NewEar
2009-2010 Season "Directions": Descriptions below are courtesy of newEar
Concert 1: Music and Minimalism Thursday, September 3, 2009 8 PM White Recital Hall James C. Olson Performing Arts Center Saturday, September 12, 2009 8 PM Bell Cultural...Tags: Music Theater, Music Industry, Culture, Arts and Culture, Chen Yi
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Northwestern Connecticut
Wood Pond PressThe Litchfield Hills region of northwestern Connecticut is a rolling, forested landscape of hidden treasures. Here are historic villages and an unspoiled countryside with more state parks and public lands than any other area in Southern New England. While...Tags: Death, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Forestry and Timber, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture
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A wonder of sound and magic
Three times Stravinsky's always shocking "Rite of Spring" has made history. The first was when its Paris premiere caused a riot 90 years ago. The second came with its inclusion 61 years ago in "Fantasia," the animated film in which great orchestral...Tags: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Walt Disney
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Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday December 5, 1997 Christopher Munch won international acclaim four years ago with "The Hours and the Times," a 60-minute vignette imagining what might have happened between John Lennon and the Beatles' gay manager Brian Epstein during a...Tags: Connecticut Valley Railroad, Transportation, John Lennon, Travel, Octavio Paz
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Classical review, 'Symphony of Psalms' by William Ferris Chorale at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church
Tribune music criticThe three-choir festival is a worthy idea instituted by the William Ferris Chorale several years ago as a good-neighborly means of presenting works for massed voices beyond the chorale's normal purview. Despite founder and director Ferris' death last...Tags: Virgil Thomson, Death, Education, Colleges and Universities, Leo Sowerby
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