Program Guide May 2025

From the General Manager

Our Spring drive was a huge success! We surpassed our $50,000 goal by close to $1000 thanks to the generosity of our listeners. On behalf of the station's volunteer staff and the University of Hartford, I want to say thank you to everyone who made a gift.

Those who read this column regularly know that from time to time I like to delve into the history of this unique radio station. This is an excerpt from The WWUH History Document:

In 1992, WWUH Folk Music Director Ed McKeon and folksinger and promoter Bruce Pratt approached the WWUH executive committee with a scheme that would recognize unrecognized "folk” musicians while raising money for a volunteer-staffed, community supported radio station that could always use a little more cash. And have a little musical fun in the process.

   The idea was this: hold a concert, invite 15 musical acts who would donate their time and the use of their music, record the concert, use the gate money to pay for a pressing of a CD and cassette release, and release a recording called The Folk Next Door. As you have guessed, the WWUH Executive Committee said yes.

   The first concert, held in the Wilde Auditorium was a huge success. The concert sold out. The acts were astonishingly good. And both the musicians and the audience seemed to love the experience. The cassettes and CDs flew out the door, prompting a re-pressing (the one and only - a printers error will tell you if you have a first edition. On the original, Hugh Blumenfeld, Last Fair Deal and Amy Davis and Danny Gardella appeared on the last page of the CD booklet. On the corrected edition, Folk Next Door printed backwards appears on the last page of the CD booklet.) And the music was played on stations throughout the country. Highlights: the "surprise" visit by Richard Shindell, John Whelan's wandering squeezebox, the debut of Donna Martin, Don Sineti’s chorus and shanty men and women.

   The next year we named the concert "Honey Hide the Banjo, It’s The Folk Next Door again". It made a great T-shirt, but was way too long for most DJs to wrap their lips around. The 1993 concert was to be an all-day affair, starting outside with a free concert, with an evening paid event. Rain forced us inside after the third act and threw off the schedule till the concert ended around 2 a.m. Once again, the music was splendid, although the audience was not entirely happy, or entirely awake by the end of the affair, and on the way we lost a Chinese brother. The CD was heard, eventually, on airwaves as far away as New Zealand. The video version of the concert is still playing on local cable access stations. Highlights: the unofficial hoot hosted by Hugh Blumenfeld, The Nields, and Bruce Pratt as we changed stages, Dar Williams opening the evening show, Kate McDonnell soloing, everyone asking "who is that guy" after J.P. Jones played, the Gospel Stars of Hartford tearing the house down, our visit from folk great Eric von Schmidt.

   In 1994, we pulled in the reins and had a "Hoot." With fifteen acts again, the evening regained a sense of sanity, and the Folk Next Door machine was gassed and humming. Everyone seemed to know what to do, where to do it, and our innovative red light let the acts know when they were out of time. Highlights: Madwoman in the Attic dropping a verse without anyone noticing, Pete Lehndorff knocking them dead, Jeter Le Pont getting the audience involved.

   In 1995 we received the most audition tapes ever for our sixteen open slots, and some came from as far away as California. Our musical guest who traveled the longest distance to appear was Andrew Calhoun, the exceptional singer-songwriter and proprietor of Waterbug Music.

   Highlights: Andrew Calhoun as standup comedian, Greg Greenway employing the rhythm and voices of the audience, and Travor Hollow killing them in the wee hours. 

There were many more highlights in the next four years, but unfortunately the last Folk Next Door Concert was held in 2000.  Due to the time consuming job it had become, and many other variables related to such a massive undertaking, the FND series has come to a close.  

John Ramsey

ramsey@hartford.edu

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WWUH Classical Programming

May 2025

Sunday Afternoon at the Opera… Sundays 1:00 – 4:30 pm

Evening Classics… Weekdays 4:00 to 7:00/ 8:00 pm

Drake’s Village Brass Band… Tuesdays 7:00-8:00 pm

Thursday 1st

Sowerby: Concert Overture; Alfven: Swedish Rhapsody No. 1 Op. 19 'Midsommarvaka', The Mountain King Suite Op. 37; Lawes: Royal Consort Sett No. 5 in D; Gagliano: Gabriel angelus appruit Zachariae Elizabeth Zachariae; Beethoven: Serenade for string trio in D Major Op. 8; Leifs: Variazioni pastorale Op. 8.

Friday 2nd

Music to support your local Zombie

Sunday 4th

Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Acts One and Two

Monday 5th

Robert Schumann Piano Quartet in E-Flat Major, Op. 47: III. Andante cantabile; Robert Schumann: Quartet: III. Andante cantabile  Salut d'amour, Op. 12; Ottorino Respighi Violin Sonata in D Minor, P. 15: I. Lento - Allegro - Lento - Assai animato; Ottorino Respighi; Violin Sonatas:

Olga Kopylova: Olvidada Saudade 

Tuesday 6th

Daugherty: Blue Electra for Violin and Orchestra; Warshaw: Sirens: A Concerto for Theremin and Orchestra; Copland: Appalachian Spring Suite, The Tender Land Suite; Bartok: Contrasts

Drake’s Village Brass Band - Jacob: Music for a Festival, Giles Farnaby Suite

Wednesday 7th

Sweet Lovers Love the Spring: Benjamin Britten, Spring Symphony; W.A. Mozart, String Quartet #14; Caroline Shaw, Is a Rose; Peter Schickele, Spring Forward; Malcolm Dalglish, “Spring Water at Jerry’s Run”; Matthew Harris, Shakespeare Songs; Robert Applebaum, “Spring”;                                        

Igor Stravinsky, Rite of Spring;Sir John Rutter, “For the Beauty of the Earth”; Maurice Ravel, Le Tombeau de Couperin

Thursday 8th

Hoof: Symphony No. 2 in A Flat Major; Gottschalk: Grande Tarantelle for Piano and Orchestra RO 259/Op. 67; C. Stamitz: Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B Flat Major, Flute Concerto in G Major Op. 29; Jarrett: Bridge of Light for Viola and Orchestra; Handel: Keyboard Suite Set II No.7 in B Flat Major HWV 440.

Friday 9th

Far out music of Luigi Nono and more

Sunday 11th

Wagner,Tristan und Isolde, Act Three; Parry, Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound'

Monday 12th

Ottorino Respighi: Violin Sonata in D Minor, P. 15: I. Lento - Allegro - Lento - Assai animato; Jack Stamp :an Luis Snaphots; Gabriel Fauré: Barcarolle No. 9 in A Minor, Op. 101; Gabriel Fauré Nocturne No. 12 in E Minor, Op. 107

Tuesday 13th

Turin: And Crimson Roses Once Again Be Fair; Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Miroirs; Puckett: There Was A Child Went Forth; Bancks: Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra

Drake’s Village Brass Band - Shift – Peter Moore Trombone with the Tredegar Band

Wednesday 14th

Francois-Adrien Boieldieu: La dame blanche: Ouverture; Francois-Adrien Boieldieu: La Dame Blanche: Viens, gentille dame; Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, D. 485; Gioachino Rossini: Introduction, Theme and Variations for Clarinet and Orchestra in E-Flat Major based on Mose in Egitto, Act II: Aria: La pace mia smarrita, and a theme from La donna del lago;  Friedrich von Flotow: Martha: Overture; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha, Act II: Letzte Rose (The Last Rose of Summer); Friedrich von Flotow Flotow: Martha, Act III: Ach, so fromm, ach, so traut; Nadia Boulanger: 3 Pièces (version for cello and piano); Leonard Bernstein: Brass Music: Fountain, James; Antonin Dvořák: Suite in A Major, Op. 98b, B. 190, "American"; Liszt: Wagner - Phantasiestück über Motive aus Rienzi Santo Spirito cavaliere, S439/R272; Francesco Paolo Tosti: Pagine d'album (Canzone); Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Le donne curiose: Overture; Reynaldo Hahn: Piano Concerto in E;  George Enescu: 2 Romanian Rhapsodies, Op. 11: No. 1 in A Major; Franco Alfano: Symphony No. 1 in E Major, "Classica";  Giuseppe Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco: Overture; (Encore)

Thursday 15th

Bolzoni: Minuetto; Larsson: Dagens Stunder; Balfe: The Bohemian Girl: I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls; N. Tcherepnin: La Princesse Lontaine Op. 4; Heller: Serenade Op. 56; Paradis: Sicilienne in E Flat Major; Monteverdi: Beatus Vir, Vespro della beata Vergine 1610 (excerpts).

Friday 16th

Why did Gustav Holst include only seven planets in “The Planets? The answer and more as were explore outer space

Sunday 18th

Bizet, Carmen

Monday 19th

Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 14 in D Minor, D. 810 "Death & the Maiden": I. Allegro; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto for Flute & Harp in C Major, K. 299: I. Allegro;

Tuesday 20th

Coleridge-Taylor: The Death of Minnehaha; Hough: Piano Concerto ‘The World of Yesterday’: Hamelin: Pavane Variée, Meditation on Laure; Lloyd: Symphony #5

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Horn Concertos by

Ruth Gipps and Gavin Higgins

Wednesday 21st

Nature: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony #6; Gustav Holst, Planets Suite;Christopher Tin, The Lost Birds; Sarah Kirkland Snider, Mass for the Endangered; Ola Gjeilo, “Northern Lights”

Thursday 22d

G-F Couperin: Variations on Ah! Ça ira!; Wagner: Der Fliegende Holländer: Overture, Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 1, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture, Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries; Cras: Piano Concerto; Schrammel: Wien Bleibt Wien; Fesca: Piano Trio No. 5 in B minor Op. 46.

Friday 23d

Celebrating the life of THE DUKE   

Sunday 25th

Higdon, Cold Mountain

Monday 26th

Maurice Ravel; Menuet antique - for Orchestra; Warren Lee Three Novelettes: III. Blossom

Tuesday 27th

Ives: Trio; The Great Sentimental Age Volume 1; Piston Symphony #2

Drake’s Village Brass Band – Virtuoso -David Childs Euphonium with the Black Dyke Band

Wednesday 28th

Host's Choice

Thursday 29th

Jackson: Sonata in A Minor Op. 10, No. 4; Pessard: Songs; Sowande: African Suite; Elfman: Spider-Man - Main Title Theme, Batman: Main Title Theme; Kelly: Elegy; Korngold: Violin Concerto in D Major Op. 35; Albeniz: Suite Espanola No. 1 Op. 47 Nos. 1-5; d'Erlanger: Poëme in D Major.

Friday 30th

Host's Choice

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

your "lyric theater" program

with Keith Brown



Programming for May 2025

SUNDAY MAY 4TH Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Acts One and Two The problem with broadcasting the operas of Richard Wagner is that many of them are too long in duration to fit my three-and-a-half hour timeslot. Although I hate to violate the integrity of a complete recorded performance, the only way I can accommodate Wagner's Tristan und isolde (1865) is to break up my presentation into two parts over two Sundays. This Sunday you will hear the first two of the three acts of this monumental music drama. Springtime is the season for lovers, and now while the season is in full flower I treat you to one of the alltime great stories of tragic love, the tale derived from medieval courtly romance and ultimately from ancient Celtic legend. As with all his other operas, Wagner wrote his own libretto for Tristan und Isolde; his take on the old story possesses some modern psychological insights. Wagner's handling of the emotions of the lovers makes this opera an enduring, iconic work of musical art. It requires singers of enormous stamina and skill to carry it off convincingly. In recorded operatic history there is a cadre of famous sopranos who essayed the role of Isolde. One of them was the esteemed Norwegian Kirsten Flagstaad. Her legendary voice was heard in all its glory opposite Heldentenor Ludwig Suthaus as Tristan. The cast in that 1952 mono recording included the young baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau as Kurvenal. They took part in a landmark recorded interpretation under the baton of Wilhelm Furtwangler. The EMI recording, issued originally on LP's in 1953, was reissued on Seraphim LP's in 1986. That reissue was what I put over the air on two Sundays in May of 2017. Then on two Sundays in February of 2022 I again featured Tristan und Isolde, this time in a new CD issue as part of the German Pentatone label's recorded series of the Wagner operatic canon (Janowski/Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/ tenor Steven Gould/ soprano Nina Stemme). Our station's classical music record library has both these two fine recorded interpretations, and has also recently acquired on Exclusive label CD's a recording of Wagner's Liebestod masterpiece made live-in-performance at the 1975 Bayreuth Festival, with Carlos Kleiber conducting the musical resources. Tenor Helge Brillnoth portrays the young knight from Cornwall in this production, singing opposite soprano Catarina Ligendza as the Irish princess.

SUNDAY MAY 11TH Wagner, Tristan und Isolde, Act Three, Parry, Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' The English composers of the later Victorian period were all influenced by Wagner. Sir Hubert Parry (1848-1918) began his career under the influence of Wagner's Ring Cycle of operas, which he saw and heard as a young man at Bayreuth in 1876. Parry got to meet Wagner a year later when he came to London. Yet Parry's musical style remains English at its core, as witnessed in his first major work for orchestra, chorus and vocal soloists, Scenes from Shelley's 'Prometheus Unbound' (1880). You could not mistake Parry's hour-long dramatic cantata for anything by Wagner, even acknowledging the shadow cast by the German master. The Prometheus cantata and Parry's choral setting of Milton's ode Blest Pair of Sirens (1887) were recorded in 2022 for the Chandos record label of the UK. William Vann leads the Crouch End Festival Chorus and London Mozart Players, with four vocal soloists.

SUNDAY MAY 18TH Bizet, Carmen It's got to be the single most popular opera of all time, yet its premiere in 1875 could be regarded as something of a flop. Bourgeois audiences were shocked by the sex-murder at its end and considered the lowly characters to be vulgar. The opera was billed as a French opera comique because it had spoken dialog, yet it really is a lyric tragedy. Critics railed at its plot and ignored the incredible beauty of Bizet's music, despite the fact that the score is replete with memorable tunes. Well, now it's a staple of the international repertoire, and there are so many recordings of it in the discography. The great conductors of the past have left us some wonderful interpretations on disc. You heard Herbert von Karajan's interpretation on Sunday, October 10, 1999 and Fritz Reiner's on July 1, 2012. I could have programmed Sir Georg Solti's 1975 recording for Decca/London with the London Philharmonic and some internationally renowned vocal principals, which was made available again to the public in compact disc format, but I have chosen instead an obscure recorded production mounted in 1985 in Bulgaria and originally released through the Balkanton label, then transferred onto Laser Light CD's in 1995. Ivan Marinov conducts the Sofia National Opera Orchestra and Chorus. Soprano Alexandrina Milcheva-Nonovi stars in the title role in this "Bulgarian Carmen."

SUNDAY MAY 25TH Higdon, Cold Mountain The holiday we call Memorial Day today was originally known as Decoration Day, and it was dedicated to honoring those who died fighting in the American Civil War. On the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend I try to broadcast a recording of an opera that has a Civil War theme. There's the BMOP Sound recording of Eric Sawyer's Our American Cousin (2007) about the Lincoln assassination, broadcast on the Sunday of the 2009 Memorial Day weekend and a second time in 2021. Then there's the Naxos recording of Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County (2011) that came twice before on the holiday weekends in 2015 and 2023. This year I offer up for a second time Cold Mountain, the opera by Jennifer Higdon (b. 1962). Like the 2003 Hollywood movie adaptation, it's based on the best-selling 1997 novel by Charles Frazier. The story of the opera, the movie and the book concerns a Confederate deserter who risks his life walking three hundred miles from an army hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina to get back to his beloved in the mountains on the western border of the state. Tragically, he is killed by the vigilantes of the Home Guard. The composer spent her youth in East Tennessee very close to the geographical setting of the story at Cold Mountain. The scenic region and its people are dear to her heart. Cold Mountain is her first opera. Santa Fe Opera gave the premiere production of it in 2015. It was recorded live in performance. The German record label Pentatone issued the world premiere recording of Cold Mountain in 2016 in its "American Operas" series. I last broadcast this American opera on Sunday, May 28, 2017. 

keithsbrown1948@gmail.com

Boomer's Paradise

Monday's 1-4 PM with your host, The Turtle Man

Well, after too many long months nice weather is finally here. Always a good time to open the windows and let the music out again.There's no better place than Boomers Paradise to start the month with the top down sounds of spring in May 1975.From there we feature the warm glow of torch songs and rev things up with some memorable musical riffs.We return again to the wonderful world of Billboard One Hit Wonders and being spring where colors abound we again feature songs with a color in the song title.We end the month exploring songs with song titles featuring a number and another peek into the Rhino Nuggets box set series. We'll also have opportunities to fire up the digital jukebox and surprise you each week too.

You'll find this each week at WWUH 91.3 FM/wwuh.org on Mondays from 1-4 PM with your host, The Turtle Man. See you then.

Tune in on the radio (91.3 FM) or streaming online at wwuh.org.

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.

Leaving Your Legacy

Have you ever considered making a planned gift to UHart Radio? Those that do so provide vital support to ensure the future of WWUH while securing benefits for themselves and their loved ones now.

Some of the types of planned giving include:

Bequests - A gift made through your estate, which can provide estate tax and capital gains savings.

Charitable gift annuities - An irrevocable contract where an annual payment is received for life in exchange for a gift to the station. 

Charitable remainder trusts - A gift that allows you to maintain income while providing a tax deduction for the future IRAs or qualified plans. A charitable bequest funded with an IRA or retirement plan can be made with pre-tax dollars. 

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) - A DAF can be used to give now or later, or both, and can include a succession plan for members of your family. 

With a variety of options to choose from, your gift can offer the advantages of an income stream or tax savings. UHart has a team that is here to guide you through your options and can help tailor a plan to your interests and philanthropic goals. You can contact then today at founders@hartford.edu or by calling 860.768.2400.

CT Blues Society

Founded in 1993, the Connecticut Blues Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion and preservation of Blues music in our state. CTBS is an affiliated member of The Blues Foundation, a worldwide network of 185 affiliates with an international membership in 12 countries.

The CT Blues Society May Update

The CTBS Blues Band Challenge winds up in May. On Sunday May 4, Black-Eyed Sally's in downtown Hartford will be the site of the second Challenge preliminary. Five bands will be competing - East Town Prophets, Kurt Guzik Blues Band, Whiskey Rebels, Jason Jones & Red Ball Express and The Chicago Dawgs. Two of these bands will move forward to the Challenge Finals to be held on Sunday May 18, again at Black-Eyed Sally's. They will be competing against the winners of the first preliminary, The Eran Troy Danner Band and The Kingpins. The winner of the Challenge Finals will represent CT at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN in January 2026.

The CTBS sponsors a Summer series of Blues Jams on first Thursdays at The Chicken Shack at The Farm At Carter Hill in Marlborough CT. Due to some readiness issues at the farm, the May jam was canceled and the kickoff will instead be on Thursday June 5 with the CTBS All-Stars and featured guest Tommy Whalen.

For more information or to join the CTBS, visit the website at ctblues.org

Here is a link to CT Blues Society with events and venues.

The mission of the Connecticut Symphony Orchestra is to provide opportunities for advanced musicians and emerging professionals to perform a high level of repertoire while engaging and collaborating with diverse communities in mutual growth through the joy

of making music.

https://connecticutsymphony.org

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.

For more information about the Musical Club, including a full schedule of concerts and special events, please visit https://musicalclubhartford.org

Connecticut Lyric Opera

Connecticut Lyric Opera is the state’s leading opera company, performing to thousands in Hartford, Middletown, New Britain, and New London. We have earned the reputation as an innovative company that is renowned for our world-class singers, phenomenal concert-quality orchestra and programming choices that go beyond the well-loved standards of the repertoire to include lesser-performed yet equally compelling works.

https://ctlyricopera.org/

Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra

The Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra is the state’s premier professional chamber orchestra dedicated to presenting both traditional and contemporary classical chamber works to the public. The Orchestra, led by Founder and Artistic Director Adrian Sylveen, continues to grow in size and repertoire, presenting approximately 35 times a year in many major performing arts centers throughout Connecticut and New York.

Coming Up

Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto

Thursday, May 1 @ 7:30 pm

Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi – Concert Version

First Presbyterian Church in Hartford 136 Capitol Ave, Hartford, CT

A Concert Version of the opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

Saturday, May 3 @ 7:30 pm

Garde Arts Center 325 State St., New London, CT

A Full Production the opera by Giuseppe Verdi.

The Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave based on the 1832 play Le roi s’amuse by Victor Hugo. The opera had a triumphant premiere at La Fenice in Venice on 11 March 1851. The work, Verdi’s sixteenth in the genre, is widely considered to be the first of the operatic masterpieces of Verdi’s middle-to-late career. The tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto’s daughter Gilda. The opera’s original title, La Maledizion (The Curse), refers to a curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by the Count Monterone, whose daughter the Duke has seduced with Rigoletto’s encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda falls in love with the Duke and sacrifices her life to save him from the assassin hired by her father.

http://thevirtuosi.org/

The Hartford Choral

The Hartford Choralehttp://www.hartfordchorale.org/The Hartford Chorale is a volunteer not-for-profit organization that presents, on a symphonic scale, masterpieces of great choral art throughout southern New England and beyond, serving as the primary symphonic chorus for the Greater Hartford community. Through its concerts and collaborations with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and other organizations, the Hartford Chorale engages the widest possible audiences with exceptional performances of a broad range of choral literature, providing talented singers with the opportunity to study and perform at a professional level.

Coming Up

Vox Feminae

featuring works by Rosephanye Powell and Jocelyn Hagen, including Cry of Jeremiah and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Jack Anthony Pott, conductor 

Friday, May 16, 2025, 7:30pm

The Bushnell – Belding Theater

Hartford, CT

hartfordchorale.org

Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale

Tickets can be purchased at the door. For further information, visit the MSOC Web site at www.msoc.org or the Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale Facebook page.

Coming Up

Fantasia and Friends

Saturday, May 31, 2025 at 7:30 pm

Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School

134 Middle Turnpike East, Manchester, CT

Orchestra Selections

Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, first movement

Firebird Suite selections

Choral Selections

“You Will Be Found” from Dear Evan Hanson

“Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” from Hamilton

“Go the Distance” from Hercules

“Journey to the Past” from Anastasia

“When You Believe” from Price of Egypt

“You Never Had a Friend Like Me” from Aladdin

“Bare Necessities” from Jungle Book

“Hunchback of Notre Dame Choral Suite”

http://www.msoc.org

Beth El Temple Music & Art

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WHERE ELSE COULD MUSIC BE THIS HEAVENLY? Music at Beth El Temple in West Hartford is under the direction of The Beth El Music & Arts Committee (BEMA). With the leadership of Cantor Joseph Ness, it educates and entertains the community through music. The BEMA committee helps conceive and produce musical performances of all genres, while supporting the commemoration of Jewish celebrations and prayer services.

https://www.bethelwesthartford.org/community/get-involved/bema

Voce

Founded in 2006 by Mark Singleton, Artistic Director, and Tom Cooke, President, Voce has grown to become New England’s premier chamber choral ensemble. With a mission to Serve Harmony, Voce is best known for its unique sound; for bringing new works to a wide range of audiences; and for collaborating with middle school, high school and collegiate ensembles to instill the values of living and singing in harmony, further developing the next generation of choral artist.

Coming Up

West of Middle

7:30PM, Saturday, May 17, 2025

Immanuel Congregational Church

10 Woodland Street

Hartford, CT 06107

https://www.voceinc.org/

Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra

Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra is one of Connecticut’s premier community orchestras dedicated to promoting musical excellence. We believe that classical music provides a magical experience that inspires, delights, and brings our community together.

Founded in 1981, the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra performs 6-7 concerts each season with a variety of classical, romantic and popular holiday favorites. The orchestra serves Farmington, Canton, Avon, Simsbury, Burlington, Bloomfield, West Hartford & Hartford, as well as Greater Hartford and the Connecticut River Valley. We are your local, civic orchestra and look forward to seeing you at one of our concerts!

Coming Up

FVSO at the Movies II

Sunday, May 4, 2025, 3:00 pm

Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyette Athenaeum

University of Saint Joseph, West Hartford, CT

CARWITHEN: Bishop Rock Overture (US Premiere)

CARWITHEN: Suffolk Suite (US Premiere)

MOZART: Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 (Katherine Reardon, soprano)

TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64

Further information is available at FVSO.org or by calling 800-975-FVSO.

www.fvso.org

West Hartford Symphony Orchestra

WHSO.org

South Windsor Cultural Arts

Coming Up

South Windsor Cultural Arts Presents the Euclid String Quartet on May 4th

SWCA is pleased to announce the return of the Euclid String Quartet on May 4th. Now in its 27th season, the quartet enjoys one of the most highly regarded reputations of any chamber ensemble of its generation, with its members’ constituting a multinational mix representing three continents: violinist Jameson Cooper (Great Britain), violinist Aviva Hakanoglu (United States), violist Luis Enrique Vargas (Venezuela), cellist Justin Goldsmith (United States). Captivating audiences and critics ranging from Carnegie Hall to school classrooms to radio and television broadcasts, the quartet consistently performs to enthusiastic acclaim throughout the country.

The program will include Mendelssohn’s “Four Pieces for String Quartet, Op. 81”; Robert Paterson’s “String Quartet No. 2”; and Beethoven’s “String Quartet No. 8 in e minor, Op. 59, #2 (“Razumovsky”)”.

The concert starts at 2:00 pm at Evergreen Crossings Retirement Community, 900 Hemlock Ave, South Windsor, CT. The concert is FREE and donations are welcomed. Seating begins at 1:30 and is on a first-come, first-served basis. A reception with the artist will follow the concert hosted by Evergreen Crossings Retirement Community

For information, call (860)-416-6920

https://www.facebook.com/SouthWindsorCulturalArts

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra

The New Britain Symphony Orchestra is a professional orchestra which presents several concerts each season in the Greater New Britain area, performing works from all periods in a wide range of musical styles. In addition to its full orchestra concerts under the direction of Music Director and Conductor, Toshiyuki Shimada, including a free concert for children, members of the orchestra perform in various free chamber music concerts during the concert season.

https://newbritainsymphony.org/