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Program Guide
February, 2020
In This Issue
How To Listen
WWUH Archive Now Online
Be On The Radio
Classical Listing
Scholarship Fund Update
Community Affairs on 91.3
Composer Birthdays
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Flash Back: 2003
 
 A while back, Bruce Pratt, a station supporter, submitted the following recollections of The Folk Next Door concert series:

When UH committed to a five-morning-a-week acoustic format, I believe the station began an unprecedented era in non-commercial radio. Until then, most stations programmed folk or blues only on the weekends. To have drive time folk, and drive time ratings, no less, still amazes me. The 2000's saw Ed McKeon, Wild Bill Cunningham, Tom Bowman, Bill Domler, and the station's other personalities-and I mean personality in every sense of the word-listeners in the UH area not only heard the widest variety of acoustic music possible, but were informed of the hundreds of opportunities each year to see these performers live. The station's countless live in studio appearances has to be unmatched in southern new England. When UH also began to promote shows, one can argue with conviction that the Golden Age of Connecticut Radio had arrived.

If a Golden moment has existed in this Golden Age it was when Ed McKeon and I first figured out how to make The Folk Next Door work. As boastful as that may sound, I believe it to be true. The idea was simple. We'd invite as many of the best acoustic performers as we could to a concert, charge the public a reasonable amount, and record the show for a compilation CD. The artists would donate their time, but would receive the very tangible benefit of being on a CD that would be played on stations across the country. The concert appearance itself was an added benefit-often the first big stage performance for some of the artists.

The first artist selection process was arduous and fraught with discord. Besides the ancient arguments about what constituted folk music, and the internecine quarrels between the folk, singer/songwriter, bluegrass, blues, and traditional camps, there were arguments over the quality of certain artists suggested by members of the staff.

Though Ed had done all the work, everyone at the station and in the folk community felt they had a stake in deciding who should appear. Ed made a sincere attempt to be democratic: we had meetings, voted on suggestions, argued for favorites, and some nearly came to blows. When the project seemed to be sinking in its own turmoil, with a patience unmatched by Job, Ed pushed on. Tempers rose, noses were put out of joint, but in the end as fine an evening of music and spirit as I have ever known ensued. I cherish the CDs and the memories of this venture. If I am ever in a really tight spot and need help I can absolutely stake my life on, one of the first people I'll call is Ed McKeon.

The Folk Next Door's run astonishes me. There is a saying among musicians that goes, "Everyone remembers a funeral, but not always the wedding." Translated, this means if the first attempt fails, you don't get a second shot. There are many more, "First Annual" events, than there are "Tenth Annual" ones. Like most great ventures, The Folk Next Door, came to an end as an annual event, but its legacy is remembered in every one of the projects that have imitated its success over these past many years.

For more than a decade now, I have lived out of range of the signals of my two favorite stations, WHUS and WWUH. Save for WERU, an excellent community radio station here in Maine, and the offerings on NPR, I am Beyond The Pale, beyond the reach of the vibrant community served by WWUH. I am a radio person. I have traveled a good bit of this land, and have encountered nowhere else the richness of radio in greater Hartford. Now I get NPR reruns, packaged shows-but I do love American Roots-and, when I can get it, the good programming at WERU. What I don't get is the sense of community I once knew. As the old blues line goes, "You sure don't miss your water 'til your well runs dry."
How To Listen To WWUH
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We are very excited to announce  that our archive has been completely upgraded so that it is usable on most if not all devices.  The archive allows you to listen to any WWUH program aired in the last two weeks on-demand 
using 
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DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA
FOR A RADIO PROGRAM?
If you have an idea for a radio program and are available to volunteer late at night, please let us know.

We may have some midnight and/or 3am slots available later this year. Email station manager John Ramsey to find out more about this unique and exciting opportunity for the right person.

Qualified candidates will have access to the full WWUH programmer orientation program so no experience is necessary. He/she will also need to attend the monthly WWUH staff meetings (held on Tuesday or Sunday evenings) and do behind the scenes volunteer work from time to time. This is a volunteer position.

After completing this process, we will review the candidate's assets and accomplishments and they will be considered for any open slots in our schedule.
Classical Music's Home in Hartford



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

WWUH Classical Programming 
February 2020 
 
Sunday Afternoon at the Opera
Sun, 1:00 - 4:30 pm
 
Evening Classics
Weekdays 4:00 to 7:00/ 8:00 pm
 
Drake's Village Brass Band
Mondays 7:00-8:00 pm
 
February
Sun
2
Campra: L'Europe Galante
Mon
3
 
Tue
4
Brahms: Six Piano Pieces, Op. 118; Schieferdecker: Musical Concert No. 6 in D major; J. S. Bach: Cantata for the 4th Sunday after Epiphany (Epiphany 4) BWV 81 "Jesus schläft, was soll ich hoffen"; Mondonville: Pieces de Clavecin en Sonates avec accompagnement de Violon, Op. 3, Sonate No. 3; F.-A. Philidor: L'art de la modulation: Quartet No. 3 in G major for flute, 2 violins, and b.c.;
Beethoven: 6 Bagatelles, Op. 126; Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36
Wed
5
Spohr: Symphony No. 7; Still: Symphony No. 3; Warlock: Songs; Mazzocchi: Vespers; Francaix: Quintet
Thu
6
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Antonin Vranicky: String Sextet in G; Weigl: Phantastisches Intermezzo; Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Albéniz: Espana: Tango Op. 165/2; Arensky: Suite for Two Pianos No. 1 Op. 15; Krommer: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in F Op. 52; Mozart: Piano Trio No. 4 in E, K. 542.
Fri
7
Remembering Taneyev and Lutoslavski
Sun
9
Benjamin, Lessons in Love and Violence/ Spears, Paul's Case
Mon
10
 
Tue
11
Haydn: Piano Trio #25 in e, Hob. XV: 12;   Kozeluch: Symphony in D; Gebel: String Quartet in D; Martinu: Concerto #2 for Cello & Orchestra
Wed
12
Malipiero: Symphony; Vanhal: Mass; Webern: Im Sommerwind, etc.; Schnittke: Piano Concerto; Schaffrath: Sonata; Schnabel: Piano Trio
Thu
13
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Benedetto Marcello: Concerto Grosso Op. 1, No. 6; Kusser: Composition de Musique: Suite No. 3; Cambini: Wind Quintet No. 3 in F; Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Johann Straus II No. 3: Wine, Women and Song; Friedman: Piano Quintet in c; Colin Matthews: Pluto, the Renewer; Holst: The Planets Op. 32.
Fri
14
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait & music to celebrate Valentine's Day
Sun
16
Cimarosa, Gli Orazii e I Curiazii
Mon
17
 
Tue
18
Antheil: A Jazz Symphony; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #2 in c, Op. 66; Bartók: Dance Suite; Obrecht: Missa De Sancto Donatiano
Wed
19
Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 4; Bloch: Macbeth; Rubinstein: Piano Trio; Lobo: Mass; Schemizer: Sonatas
Thu
20
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 1 Op. 2; Beck: Symphony in F Op. 4 No. 3; Salomon: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in d; Gyrowetz: Piano Trio in B Op. 28, No. 1; Beriot: Violin Concerto #9 in a Op. 104; Gipps: Knight in Armour Op. 8; Taktakishvili: Piano Concerto No. 1; Dvořák: Bagatelles, Op. 47; Clementi: Keyboard Sonata in B Flat Op. 13 No. 4.
Fri
21
This is the "Second" month
Sun
23
Thomson, Lord Byron
Mon
24
 
Tue
25
Brahms: Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119; Schieferdecker: Musical Concert No. 9 in G minor; 
J. S. Bach: Cantata for Quinquagesima Sunday [Estomihi, Sunday before Lent] BWV 23 "Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn"; Mondonville: Pieces de Clavecin en Sonates avec accompagnement de Violon, Op. 3, Sonate No. 4; F.-A. Philidor: L'art de la modulation: Quartet No. 4 in B-flat major for oboe, 2 violins, and b.c.; Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection"
Wed
26
Kraus: Symphony; Scandello: Songs; Taneyev: String Quartet; Litolff: Piano Trio; Alkan: Etudes
Thu
27
From Courthouse to Court Musician: C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concerto in G Wq. 169; Krieger: Sonata in d Op. 2 No. 2; Parry: Jerusalem, Symphonic Variations; Peterson-Berger: Froso-Flowers Book 1 Op. 16; Lauridsen: Dirait-on, O Magnum Mysterium, O Nata Lux; Balakirev: Nocturne No. 2 in b; Smetana: Prague Carnival; Telemann: Overture (Suite) in F TWV 55:F11 'Alster'.
Fri
28
Classical Conversations - an occasional interview feature
 
 
 
 
 
Opera on WWUH
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA
your "lyric theater" program
with Keith Brown
programming selections for the month of

February 2020
February 2020
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2ND Campra, L'Europe Galante Andre Campra (1660-1744) was one of the most esteemed masters of the opera of the French baroque to follow in the footsteps of Lully, the founder of the genre of the tragedie en musique. In times long past I have presented two of Campra's eight lyric tragedies in their world premiere recordings: Tancrede (1702) on Sunday, March 3, 1991 and Idomenee (1712,rev. 1731) on Sunday, May 9, 1993. The French opera-going public also wanted lighter weight lyric theatrical entertainment with plenty of dance divertissements. Campra was among the first composers in the new genre of the opera-ballet. His L'Europe Galante (1697) remained enormously popular decades after its premiere well into the eighteenth century. Unlike the Lullian lyric tragedy, which tells one entire story over five acts, in this opera-ballet there are four acts telling four separate stories. All four vignettes set forth the concept of love in four different European countries: France, Italy, Spain and Turkey. (The Turkish act became particularly popular on its own.) There's an old historically informed recording of L'Europe Galante in abridged form made in 1973 with Gustav Leonhardt conducting La Petite Bande. In its 1990 reissue on compact disc it was paired with Lully's incidental music for Moliere's comedy Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670). I have broadcast that Harmonia Mundi recording a couple of times along with Lully's music for the play. The HM release gave us less than an hour of Campra's music. Today you get to hear the complete opera-ballet: a tad more than two full hours of music presented on two Chateau de Versailles Spectacles CD's. Sebastien d'Herin is one of a younger generation of conductors who specialize in the performance of the music of the French baroque. He leads the period instrumental forces of Les Nouveaux Characteres. This new L'Europe Galante was recorded in 2017 in the magnificent opera house of the Royal Palace at Versailles.
 
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 9TH Benjamin, Lessons in Love and Violence, Spears, Paul's Case Both of the twenty first century operas featured today have a gay sensibility. Both of them show us the life and death of a gay male in a time long ago when homosexuality was taboo in Western Christian society. It's only been in the past generation or two in the later twentieth century that such stories can be told in operatic terms in a sympathetic way. So the theme of today's programming could be stated as "death in the closet." The Elizabethan playwright Christopher Marlowe did indeed deal with the character of a fourteenth century "gay" monarch in his play The troublesome reign and lamentable death of Edward the second King of England, with the tragical fall of proud Mortimer (1594). The British team of composer George Benjamin (b.1960) and librettist Martin Crimp (b. 1956) came up with a contemporary take on King Edward and Earl Roger de Mortimer in their third operatic collaboration, Lessons in Love and Violence, which premiered at Covent Garden in May of 2018. It's an operatic tragedy, to be sure, and Edward ends up dead, but he isn't tortured to death in the horrible way the gay king is in Marlowe's original play. It's Mortimer, who wanted to separate the king from his male lover Piers Gaveston and who wanted Edward dead and deposed, who gets executed. Following closely on the Covent Garden production, Lessons in Love and Violence was staged again by Dutch National Opera at the Holland Festival in the Summer of 2018. The opera was commissioned by an international group of famous opera houses headed by the Royal Opera of London. Benjamin and Crimp's Lessons in Love and Violence was recorded at the Holland Festival and issued through the Nimbus record label of the UK in 2019 on two compact discs.
     American novelist Willa Cather (1876-1947) was a lesbian who wrote perceptively about gay men in her closeted bygone era. Her story "Paul's Case" was first published in McClure's magazine, of which she was editor, in 1905. Paul is a rebellious aesthete of a youth. Today we might think of him as stereotypically queer. He breaks away from his stifling homelife in Pittsburgh for freedom in New York City. But this brief escapade ends tragically in Paul's suicide. An American composer of our time, Gregory Spears (b. 1977) has made Paul's Case into an opera. He worked up a libretto for himself with major input from playwright Kathryn Walat. With the backing of American Opera Projects Paul's Case was first staged by Urbanarias, conducted by Robert Wood. In 2018 it was recorded in the recital hall of the Performing Arts Center at the State University of New York's Purchase College. Again Robert Wood was conducting the vocal team of Urbanarias and the American Modern Ensemble chamber players. A National Sawdust release on two silver discs.
 
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16TH Cimarosa,Gli Orazii e I Curiazii Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was a prolific composer of opera in the classical style of the later eighteenth century. He wrote at least sixty operas-mostly comic works, the most famous of them being Il Matrimonio Segreto (1792). I have broadcast a couple of recordings of 'The Secret Marriage." The old 1977 Deutsche Grammophon LP recording with Daniel Barenboim conducting went over the air on Sunday, April 21,1985. Long thereafter came a new recording made in Florence,Italy in 2017. That latter one was my pre-New Year's Eve presentation for Sunday, December 30, 2018. Cimarosa also wrote Italian opera seria. A specimen of his serious operatic output is Gli Orazii e I Curiazii (1796). The title really doesn't accurately translate as 'The Capulets and The Montagues" or 'The Hatfields and The McCoys," but that kind of storied family conflict is very familiar in this opera. For the story of this feud we reach back into ancient times, to the early days of the Roman Republic during the city state's war with neighboring Alba Longa. Cimarosa's obscure azione tragica received both its first modern staged revival and world premiere recording in 1983. Gli Orazii e I Curiazii was performed at the Teatro Chiabrera in Savona, Italy. Massimo de Bernart leads the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo and the Coro del Teatro dell' Opera Giacosa, with the late and much esteemed mezzo Daniela Dessi in the breaches role of the Alban leader Curiazio. The Italian label Bongiovanni released Gli Orazii e I Curiazii on two compact discs in 1984.
 
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 23RD Thomson, Lord Byron In the course of nigh on four decades of opera broadcasting I have aired recordings of Virgil Thomson's Four saints in Three Acts (1934) and The Mother of Us All (1947) more than once, most recently the 2016 BMOP Sound recording of Four Saints on Sunday, November 24th of last year, with Gil Rose conducting the singing and playing resources of his Boston Modern Orchestra Project. Neither of those operas could be considered familiar to the public's ears. There's another Thomson opera that is even less known. Much later in his career, after Four Saints and Mother, he wrote an opera about the renegade English poet George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824). Byron's life as an artistic and political revolutionary insured that upon his death he would not be buried in the Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey. Yet in Thomson's opera his body reposes there. The Met commissioned Thomson to compose Lord Byron in 1966, but the huge new stage at Lincoln Center made performance of it there problematical. The actual premiere came about after much delay in 1972 at the Julliard School. The world premiere recording of Lord Byron was released in 1992 through the Koch International Classics label. The recording was made here in New England in Wilton, New Hampshire with the Yankee orchestral ensemble Monadnock Music under the direction of James Bolle. I last broadcast this same recording on Sunday, November 14, 1993.
 



 
 
 
 
 
The WWUH Scholarship Fund


   

 In 2003 WWUH alums Steve Berian, Charles Horwitz and Clark Smidt helped create the WWUH Scholarship Fund to provide an annual grant to a UH student who is either on the station's volunteer Executive Committee or who is in a similar leadership position at the station. The grant amount each year will be one half of the revenue of the preceeding year.

To make a tax deductable donation either send a check to: WWUH Scholarship Fund
c/o John Ramsey
Univ. of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Ave.
W. Hartford, CT 06117 

Or call John at 860-768-4703 to arrange for a one-time or on-going donation via charge card.

If you would like more information please contact us at  wwuh@hartford.edu


Real Alternative News
For over 50 years WWUH has aired a variety of unique community affairs programs.


Here is our current schedule:
Monday: Noon - 1pm  Alternative Radio
8:00 - 9:00 pm Radio   Radio Ecoshock
Tuesday: Noon - 12:30 pm  New World Notes
12:30 - 1:00 pm  Counterspin
8:00 - 9:00 pm  Black Agenda Report
Wednesday: Noon - 12:30 pm  911 Wake Up Call
12:30 - 1:00 pm  Building Bridges
8:00 - 8:30 pm  911 Wake Up Call
8:30 - 9:00 pm  New World Notes
Thursday: Noon - 1:00 pm  Project Censored
7:30 - 8:00 pm  Making Contact
8:00 - 8:30 pm  This Way Out
8:30 - 9:00 pm Gay Spirit
Friday: 12:00 - 12:30 pm Nutmeg Chatter
12:30 - 1:00 pm  TUC Radio
Sunday: 4:30 - 5:00 pm  Nutmeg Chatter
Tuesday Evening Classics
Tue Feb 4 - Hosted by David Schonfeld
 
Tue Feb 11 - Haydn: Piano Trio #25 in e, Hob. XV: 12; Kozeluch: Symphony in D; Gebel: String Quartet in D; Martinu: Concerto #2 for Cello & Orchestra
 
Tue Feb 18 - Antheil: A Jazz Symphony; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio #2 in c, Op. 66; Bartók: Dance Suite; Obrecht: Missa De Sancto Donatiano
 
Tue Feb 25 - Hosted by David Schonfeld

 Composer Birthdays

 




Feb 6
1882 Karl Weigl
 
Feb 13
1660 (Bapt) Johann Sigismund Kusser
1746 Giuseppe Maria Cambini
1870 Leopold Godowsky
1882 Ignaz Friedman
1946 Colin Matthews
 
Feb 20
1734 Franz Ignaz Beck
1749 (Bapt) Johann Peter Salomon
1763 Adalbert Vojtech Gyrowetz [Jirovec]
1802 Charles-Auguste de Beriot
1921 Ruth Gipps
 
Feb 27
1649 (Bapt) Johann Philipp Krieger
1848 Charles Hubert Hastings Parry
1867 Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
1943 Morten Lauridsen


Thursday Evening Classics
Feb 6
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Antonin Vranicky: String Sextet in G; Weigl: Phantastisches Intermezzo; Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Albéniz: Espana: Tango Op. 165/2; Arensky: Suite for Two Pianos No. 1 Op. 15; Krommer: Oboe Concerto No. 2 in F Op. 52; Mozart: Piano Trio No. 4 in E, K. 542.
Feb 13
 
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Benedetto Marcello: Concerto Grosso Op. 1, No. 6; Kusser: Composition de Musique: Suite No. 3; Cambini: Wind Quintet No. 3 in F; Godowsky: Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Johann Straus II No. 3: Wine, Women and Song; Friedman: Piano Quintet in c; Colin Matthews: Pluto, the Renewer; Holst: The Planets Op. 32.
Feb 20
 
From Courthouse to Court Musician: Boris Lyatoshynsky: Symphony No. 1 Op. 2; Beck: Symphony in F Op. 4 No. 3; Salomon: Romance for Violin and Orchestra in d; Gyrowetz: Piano Trio in B Op. 28, No. 1; Beriot: Violin Concerto #9 in a Op. 104; Gipps: Knight in Armour Op. 8; Taktakishvili: Piano Concerto No. 1; Dvořák: Bagatelles, Op. 47; Clementi: Keyboard Sonata in B Flat Op. 13 No. 4.
Feb 27
 
From Courthouse to Court Musician: C.P.E. Bach: Flute Concerto in G Wq. 169; Krieger: Sonata in d Op. 2 No. 2; Parry: Jerusalem, Symphonic Variations; Peterson-Berger: Froso-Flowers Book 1 Op. 16; Lauridsen: Dirait-on, O Magnum Mysterium, O Nata Lux; Balakirev: Nocturne No. 2 in b; Smetana: Prague Carnival; Telemann: Overture (Suite) in F TWV 55:F11 'Alster'.

 
Hartford Symphony Orchestra 
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Our Mission:  To enrich lives and community through great music. Our Vision: HSO will be widely known for and unrivaled in its ability to: Openly engage our community and its diverse people Foster joy for music and an appreciation...
 
In Collaboration with the WWUH Classical Programming we are pleased to partner with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra to present their announcements and schedule to enhance our commitment to being part of the Greater Hartford Community
 
West Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Richard Chiarappa, Music Director
 
whso.org    (860) 521-4362


 
Upcoming Concert
 
      2020 Spring Classical Concert
          Sunday, March 29, 2020
                   3:00 PM
Bring your family to Roberts Theater on the Kingswood Oxford Campus in West
Hartford for WHSO's first 2020 Concert
 
 

 
Join WHSO at the West Hartford Town Hall for our Annual Holiday Concert featuring seasonal favorites.
 

Help WHSO kick off the 2019-2020 Concert Season at the Roberts Theater on the Kingswood Oxford Campus in West Hartford.
 
 
Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra 
 
Great music and great musicians! Food for the soul! Affordable prices! The Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra offers these benefits to all of you in the greater Hartford Community.

The CVSO has been operating for 88 years. Our musicians, serious amateurs and music educators, range from teenagers to seniors, and have a fabulous 2018-2019 season of classical, romantic and modern music lined up for your listening pleasure.  
 
          February 9, 2020 (snow date: Feb. 16)
 
                  Rossini: Barber of Seville
                 Tchaikovsky: Symphony #1
    Glazunov Violin Concerto (Julie Haring, violin)
 
 
 
Concerts are Sunday afternoons at 3:00 p.m. at  Congregation Beth Israel, 701 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford.
 
 
site
The West Hartford 
Symphony Orchestra
 
In Collaboration with the WWUH Classical Programming we are pleased to partner with the West Hartford Symphony Orchestra to present their announcements and schedule to enhance our commitment to being part of the Greater Hartford Community
 
Upcoming Concert
 
               2020 Spring Classical Concert
                   Sunday, March 29, 2020
                               3:00 PM
Bring your family to Roberts Theater on the Kingswood Oxford Campus in West
Hartford for WHSO's first 2020 Concert
 
Join WHSO at the West Hartford Town Hall for our Annual Holiday Concert featuring seasonal favorites.
 

West Hartford Symphony Orchestra 
Richard Chiarappa, Music Director 
whso.org 
(860) 521-4362
 

The Musical Club of Hartford
The Musical Club of Hartford is a non-profit organization founded in 1891. Membership is open to performers or to those who simply enjoy classical music, providing a network for musicians from the Greater Hartford area.
 
Club events take place normally on selected Thursday mornings at 10:00 a.m, Fall through Spring. The usual location is the sanctuary at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT (between Ridgewood and Mountain Avenues). Information on time and location is given at the bottom of each event description.
 
             Sam DeCaprio, cello
This year, in place of our customary mid-year meeting, we will be treated to
a cello recital by Sam DeCaprio, a Doctoral Fellow at The Juilliard School.
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 10:00am
Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT

 
musicalclubhartford.org

The Hartford Choral

 
Hartford Chorale 2019-2020 Season
 
 
Mozart Requiem with Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, on Sunday, March 1, 2020 - 3:00 pm at Naugatuck Valley Community
College Fine Arts Center.
 
 
hartfordchorale.org 

The Manchester Symphony
Orchestra and  Choral

Bringing Music to our Community for 59 Years!
 
 
The Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale is a nonprofit volunteer organization that brings quality orchestral and choral music to the community, provides performance opportunities for its members, and provides education and performance opportunities for young musicians in partnership with Manchester schools and other Connecticut schools and colleges.
 
"Nordic Winter"
Featuring guest artist, Greg Spiridopoulos
Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 7:30pm
Manchester High School
Uusberg : Avanemised (U.S. Premiere)
Grondahl : Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra
Nielsen: Symphony No. 1 
 

Temple Beth El
 
Music at Beth El Temple in West Hartford is under the aegis of The Beth El Music & Arts Committee (BEMA). With the leadership of Cantor Joseph Ness, it educates and entertains the community through music.
 
Lecture: A Liturgical Chat W/ Light Brunch
With Cantor Joseph Ness
Sunday Afternoon, 1PM February 16
Beth El Temple, 2626 Albany Avenue, West Hartford, 860.233.9696
 
 
Open to the Public. Plenty of FREE Parking.
Beth El Temple
2626 Albany Ave, West Hartford, CT 06117
Phone: (860) 233-9696
 


 
Serve Harmony: 
Voce's 2019-2020
 Concert Season
 
St. Alban's Episcopal Church, 197 Bushy Hill Road Simsbury, CT, 06070
 
Gladdening Light!
 
Saturday, March 14, 2020
7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
St. Patrick-St. Anthony Church
Join Voce in a concert celebrating its new album - Blessing: The Music of
Paul Mealor - to be released by Signum Classics on March 13, 2020 just
before the concert! In addition to works from the new album the program
will feature choral classics from the last 100 years including repertoire
penned by Gerald Finzi and Charles Wood, and more recent compositions
by British composers Patrick Hawes and Will Todd. Let Voce bring light
into your life in the warmth of St. Patrick - St. Anthony Church's stunning
sanctuary as winter draws to a close!
 
 
Voce's holiday program will feature carols and anthems of the holiday season and Primi Voci, the premier ensemble of the Connecticut Children's Chorus. Join Voce in a celebration of the harmonies of Christmas in a concert that has become a holiday tradition!
 
Voce, Mark Singleton, Artistic Director
 
www.voceinc.org                                                              
ALL NIGHT SHOW WITH GUS T
 
 
 
If you are up with the baby, working the line, driving a truck, pulling an all-nighter, on your way to the gym or you just like staying up all night like we do, tune in to the All Night Show with Gus T every Friday from 3 to 6 AM on WWUH 91.3 or wwuh.org. If for some reason you choose to keep normal hours, you can also hear us on the archives.
 
We take a root and branch approach to Americana and you are likely to hear folk, blues, old country and honky tonk, no depression, jazz, roots rock, singer/songwriter, lo-fi, hi fi, bluegrass and every other cool thing we can think of. It's our music: old and new, loud and mellow, foreign and domestic. Thanks for allowing us to help you with the soundtrack to your Friday morning.
 
Here are some of the things that will be featured this month: 
 
 
February 7: The Bakersfield Sound, Part 2 .
 
February 14: Marty Robbins - Robbins' discography was extraordinarily varied and he produced everything from Western ballads to country weepers to Sun-styled rockabilly and MOR schlock. It's all listenable and fun. And he was a race car driver too. He was very cool.
 
February 21: The Lubbock Mafia - West Texas has produced a bevy of great musicians. Ever heard of Buddy Holly? He was born there. The Flatlanders hail from there. Terry Allen released a landmark album called "Lubbock (On Everything)" in 1979. We'll spend some time with these artists and more.
 
February 28: Country Hits of 1962 - Willie Nelson issued his first charting single. Hank Snow went to #1 after he had been everywhere else. And the Beverly Hillbilly's theme, "The Ballad of Jed Clampett." is seared into our souls forever by Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs.
Jimmy Heath (1929-2020)

 
The great bebop saxophonist, Jimmy Heath, passed away January 19, 2020. He was 94.
 
His career spanned 7 decades in which he was fierce exponent and standard-bearer for the jazz idiom, bebop. In addition, he was an accomplished and well respected big band arranger. Playing often with his brothers, drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath and bassist Percy Heath, he had a light tone that some described as "clarinet-like", but he could hold his own with the best of bop players.
 
Originally from Philadelphia, he made his way to NYC in his early twenties, landing a job in Dizzy Gillespie's big band. Because of his small stature, and being a bop player, he was called "Little Bird", a reference to Charlie Parker. Soon, he switched to tenor and also became a well-regarded big band arranger and prolific studio musician. Heath worked with, among others, the Adderley brothers, Wynton Kelly, Freddie Hubbard and Pat Patrick. He was nominated for 3 Grammy's and received an NEA Jazz Master's Award in 2003.
 
His wife Mona, two children, 7 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren survive him.

 

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