Program Guide - May, 2023 |
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Real Alternative News
For over 54 years WWUH has aired a variety of unique community affairs programs.
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Here is our current schedule:
Tuesday: Noon–12:30 p.m. 51 Percent
Wednesday: Noon–12:30 p.m. Perspective
8:30 p.m.–9:00 p.m. Gay Spirit
Sunday: 4:30 p.m.–5 p.m. Amazing Tales From Off and On CT's Beaten Path
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The WWUH Archive!
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 the "Program Archive" link on our home page.
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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.
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Check Out Our Newest Program
New Show of Great Big Band Music
Please join Bob Lazar on Saturday nights from 7 to 8:30 for a trip back in time to the era of the Big Bands on Swing and Other Things.
Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glen Miller, Glen Grey, Woody Herman Erskine Hawkins, to name a few. These are the bands that entertained millions and had people dancing in the aisles of performance halls such as the Paramount in Brooklyn or the Casa Loma hotel in Toronto.
This was feel good music and it’s almost impossible to sit and listen without moving your feet to the great arrangements of this wonderful music.
Saturday nights 7 to 8:30 on WWUH.
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New Program!
Amazing Tales From Off and On Connecticut's Beaten Path
We encourage you to tune in to our newest program, Amazing Tales from Off and On Connecticut’s Beaten Path which airs Sunday afternoons at 4:30 right after the Opera.
Amazing Tales uses a story-telling format to focus on historically significant people, places, and events from Connecticut’s past. Host Mike Allen interviews subject matter experts on a variety of historical topics.
Host Mike Allen specializes in bringing local history to life, by using his journalism and story-telling skills with podcasting and public speaking. For 15 years, Mike worked as a radio journalist, both at NPR’s Boston affiliate WBUR and as News Director at i-95 (WRKI-FM) in western Connecticut. He subsequently worked in government and corporate before retiring and starting his podcast. As a resident of Connecticut for more than 50 years, Mike also makes public appearances throughout the state, speaking on topics of local history
AMAZING TALES WWUH SCHEDULE
Sundays, 4:30pm.
5/7/23
Connecticut’s Only Pro Football Team
Most people react in disbelief when you tell them about Connecticut’s professional football team – a team that actually belonged to the National Football League. It’s true. The Hartford Blues even played the venerable “Big Blue” New York Giants. Hear the intriguing story behind this franchise from Bridgeport author Andy Piascik.
May 14
How an American Industry Grew
but Then Left Big Problems
The former Gilbert and Bennett Company in Georgetown, Connecticut is the epitome of the story of the early American industrial development cycle – starting with home-based operations, followed by the opening of a large manufacturing complex, broader international markets, fierce competition, and (after nearly 200 years) bankruptcy and site abandonment. Today, its vacant site is an industrial wasteland in the middle of leafy mid-Fairfield County. You won’t believe which product the company invented during the Civil War years that we still use to this very day. Join Georgetown historical expert Brent Colley for the fascinating story behind this iconic operation.
May 21
Did JFK Single-Handedly Kill the Hatting Industry?
There was a time when a man did not venture out of the house without a hat on his head. He wouldn’t have been considered completely dressed otherwise. When did that change? What killed the hatting industry? And, why? A story that many people have heard is that it was President John F. Kennedy and his lack of wearing a top hat to his presidential inauguration in 1961. Hatting industry expert Bill Devlin sorts the facts from the fiction in this episode that is both historically poignant as well as a fascinating story of presidential intrigue.
May 28
The Day the Clowns Cried at the Worst Circus Fire
in U.S. History
The deadliest fire at a circus in U.S. history occurred in Hartford, CT in 1944. The fire killed 186 patrons, mostly women and children. The most unbelievable part of the story, though, is how it may have started. The official cause, nearly 80 years afterwards, is still listed as “undetermined,” but the potential case to be made for arson – as told by feature writer Erik Ofgang – will literally leave you incredulous.
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The WWUH Scholarship Fund |
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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 preceding year.
To make a tax deductible 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.
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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.
Coming Up!
Thursday 5/4 | CTBS Blues Jam | CTBS All-Stars w/featured guest Chris Vitarello | 6 - 9:30 PM | The Chicken Shack, 86 E Hampton Rd, Marlborough CT
Thursday 6/1 | CTBS Blues Jam | CTBS All-Stars w/featured guest Tim McDonald | 6 - 9:30 PM | The Chicken Shack, 86 E Hampton Rd, Marlborough CT
CTBS Band Challenge 2023 | 1 - 5 PM | Black Eyed Sally's, Asylum St, Hartford CT
Preliminaries: Sundays 6/4, 6/11, 6/18
Finals: 6/25
Winner of the challenge to represent CT at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis TN January 2024
Here is a link to CT Blues Society with events and venues.
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Hartford Jazz Society
The longest continuously operating jazz society in the country
Founded in 1960, this all-volunteer organization produces jazz concerts featuring internationally acclaimed artists as well as up and coming jazz musicians. Our mission is to cultivate a wider audience of jazz enthusiasts by offering concerts, workshops and educational programs to the Greater Hartford region. The area’s most complete and up-to-date calendar of Jazz concerts and events.
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Boomer's Paradise
Monday's 1-4 PM with your host, The Turtle Man
Winter is in the rear view mirror and Spring has sprung. You're in luck for the month of May because there are five Mondays worth of Boomers Paradise to enjoy.
Starting off the month is a look back at albums released in May 1973, another chapter of Billboard's Top 40 One Hit Wonders and more of Power Ballads to stimulate your mind.
We move to songs with various numbers in the song titles and song titles with references to the elements (fire, ice, water, earth and sky).
Then it's on to the digital jukebox to see what a handful of crypto-quarters will delight your ears.
We next move into the realm of WWUH Sonic Sounds and end the month with another edition of a "Flock of Byrds" and song titles that are strange, stranger and strangest.
All of this can be heard each Monday from 1-4 PM on Boomers Paradise with your host, The Turtle Man on WWUH 91.3 FM and wwuh.org where music is your friend."
Tune in on the radio (91.3 FM) or streaming online at wwuh.org.
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WWUH Classical Programming
May 2023
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… Mondays 7:00-8:00 pm
(Opera Highlights Below)
Monday 1st
A Coronation Special – Walton: Orb and Sceptre and Crown Imperial; Tippet: Suite for the Birthday of Prince Charles; Britten: Gloriana Suite
Drake’s Village Brass Band - Gregson: An Age of Kings; Selections from The Great British Tradition – Black Dyke Band
Tuesday 2d
F. Zappa: Symphony in B flat “The Cello Symphony”; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2; Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 1; von Weber: Clarinet Concerto No. 1
Wednesday 3d
Tielman Susato: Danserye (selections); Francois Chauvon: Troisiéme Suitte in G minor from "Tibiades"; Telemann: Musique de table, Part II: Quartet in D Minor, TWV 43:d1; J, S. Bach: Cantata for Jubilate [3rd Sunday after Easter], "Ihr werdet weinen und heulen", BWV 103; Adalbert Gyrowetz (Vojtech Matyáš Jírovec): Sonata (Piano Trio) in A major, Op. 12, No. 1; Reicha: Wind Quintet No. 22 in E minor, Op. 100, No. 4; Dvorák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F minor, Op. 65, B. 130; Nielsen: Symphony No. 5, Op. 50, FS 97; Bartók: Cantata profana (A kilenc csodaszarvas / The Nine Enchanted Stags) Sz.94, BB 100.
Thursday 4th
May the Fourth be With You. Williams: Star Wars excerpts; From STEM to Staccato: Mily Balakirev: Tamara; Kohaut: Lute Concerto in F Major; Reznicek: Symphony No 3 in D Major 'Im alten Stil'; Martínez: Keyboard Sonata in E Major; Seiber: Besardo Suite No. 2.
Friday 5th
A day of first performances
Sunday 7th
Piccinni: Didon
Monday 8th
Monday Night at the Movies - Britten: King Arthur Suite; Korngold: Elizabeth and Essex Suite; Walton: Henry V
Drake’s Village Brass Band - Clifton William Birthday Centenary
Tuesday 9th
J. Schmitt: Sinfonie in E flat; Paisiello: Piano Concerto No. 2; Stravinsky: The Firebird (version for piano); Rontgen: Symphony No. 19; Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 2
Wednesday 10th
Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino: Overture; Kreutzer: Violin Concerto No. 17 in G Major; Peter von Winter: Zaira: Sommo Dio (Aria); Hummel: Das Zauberschloss Suite; Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro, Act II (Scena): Io trar non voglio; Giovanni Bottesini: Il diavolo della notte: Sinfonia; Wolf-Ferrari: Suite-concertino in F Major, Op. 16; Puccini: Crisantemi; Respighi: Antiche danze ed arie per liuto (Ancient Airs and Dances), Suite No. 2; Fauré: Fantaisie, Op. 79;
Schubert (arr. Liszt): 12 Lieder von Schubert, S558/R243: No. 12. Ave Maria; R. Hahn: Chansons grises: Nos. 1 – 7; Amy Beach: Piano Trio in A Minor, Op. 15; S. Thalberg: Grande fantasie de concert sur l'opéra Il trovatore de Verdi, Op. 77; Antonio Carlos Gomes: Salvator Rosa: Sinfonia (Overture); A. Rubinstein: Concertstuck in A-Flat Major, Op. 113: I. Moderato assai; Banowetz, Joseph; Dohnányi; Saint-Saëns: Sarabande et Rigaudon, Op. 93 (arr. M. Ravel); Liszt: Festklange, S101/R418;
Thursday 11th
From STEM to Staccato: Puccini: Arias and Duets; Gilse: Concert Overture in c minor; Seyfert: Fortepiano Sonata in F Major; Marx: Spring Music; Still: Folk Suite No. 4; Liadov: The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62; Kikimora, Op. 63; Vorisek: Symphony in D Major, Op. 24; Capocci: Scherzo in D Major; Berlin: Songs; Winner: Songs.
Friday 12th
Guest host, Donald Logie presents his program of music by artists who have performed in Connecticut for various music societies
Sunday 14th
Mattheson: Boris Goudenow
Monday 15th
Schuman: String Quartet #4; Dahl: Concerto a Tre; Reich: Runner, Music for Ensemble and Orchestra; Mennin: Folk Overture, Symphony #9
Drake’s Village Brass Band - Monuments – United States Marine Band
Tuesday 16th
Josef Kraus: Viola Concerto in C; Haydn: Piano Concerto No. 11; Gulda: Symphony in G; Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 “Ghost”; Ravel: Sonata for Violin & Piano
Wednesday 17th
His Majesty will be dipping into the extensive NAXOS pool, as spring plays out beautifully around us. The focus will be on lesser known composers, with a few nods to those we just can't forget - or live without. See you then!
Thursday 18th
From STEM to Staccato: Georgy Catoire: Piano Trio in f minor Op. 14; Beer: Vorspiel; Goldmark: Symphony No. 1 in E Flat Major, Op. 26 ‘Rustic Wedding’; Sauguet: La chatte; Zweers: Gijsbrecht van Aemstel Prelude No. 3; Zeisl: Arrowhead Trio
Friday 19th
Rick Wakeman – Phantom of the Opera
Sunday 21st
Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Monday 22d
Kirchner: String Quartet #1; Fine: String Quartet; Strauss: Joseph Legend (complete); Ligeti: Etudes for Piano
Drake’s Village Brass Band - Ligeti: Horn Trio, Mysteries of the Macabre for Trumpet and Orchestra
Tuesday 23d
Josef Kraus: Viola Concerto in E flat; Haydn: Symphony No. 34; Moscheles: Piano Concerto No. 7; Rubbra: Symphony No. 5; Brahms: Horn Trio in E flat
Wednesday 24th
Host’s Choice
Thursday 25th
From STEM to Staccato: William Herschel: Symphony No. 13 in D Major; Wiggins: Piano Works; Lvov: Violin Concerto; Alexandrov: Echoes of the Theatre, Op. 60.; Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 20 in A Major, D. 959
Friday 26th
Music for graduations and Memorial Day
Sunday 28th
Gordon: Rappahannock County
Monday 29th
Memorial Day Special - Gershwin: Strike Up the Band Overture; Hanson: Symphony #1 “Nordic”; Bacon: Ford’s Theatre: A Few Glimpses of Easter Week, 1865
Drake’s Village Brass Band - Jager: Epilogue: Lest We Forget; Gould: West Point Symphony
Tuesday 30th
H Herz: Piano Concerto No. 1; Ernst Mielck: Symphony; von Weber: Concertino for Clarinet & Orchestra; Poulenc: Organ Concerto; R. Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Wednesday 31st
Tielman Susato: Danserye (selections); Francois Chauvon: Quatriéme Suitte in B-flat major from "Tibiades"; Telemann: Violin Sonata, TWV 41: F4, Essercizii Musici, Solo No. 1 and Trio Sonata, TWV 42:c2, Essercizii Musici, Trio No. 1;
J. S. Bach: Cantata for Whit Sunday [1st Day of Pentecost], "Erschallet, ihr Lieder, erklinget, ihr Saiten!", BWV 172; Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 "Pastorale"; Rita Strohl: Grande Fantaisie-Quintette; Nielsen: Symphony No. 6 "Sinfonia semplice", FS 116.
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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA
your "lyric theater" program
with Keith Brown
Programming for the month of May 2023
SUNDAY MAY 7TH Piccinni, Didon No, it's not a misprint! The name is Piccinni, NOT the today better known Puccini, with only one"n" and a "u." Niccolo Piccinni (1728-1800) was famous in his time as an Italian opera composer. Piccinni wrote a huge amount of opera: easily a hundred operatic works or more, against the mere dozen works of Giacomo Puccini. The operas of Piccinni fell out of the repertoire in the nineteenth century. One of his most popular ones in French language, first staged at Fontainebleau Palace and subsequently at the Paris Opera is Didon (1783), a tragedie lyrique in three acts setting forth the story of Queen Dido of Carthage and her tragic love affair with the Trojan refugee Aeneas. It all ends badly in the queen's abandonment and her suicide, more or less as we know it from Henry Purcell's little English baroque opera. Piccinni's Didon is in the galant early classical style of Gluck, who was Piccinni's colleague, or rather rival in Paris, with partisan opera politics entailed. Today Gluck is regarded as the more important historical figure, so you could think of Piccinni's music as Gluck-lite: pleasing to the ear but maybe lacking a certain Gluckian emotional weight. Didon is a new release from the Italian Bongiovanni label, as recorded in 2021 for unstaged studio purposes in the Cavalli Auditorium of Castrezzato. Damiano Cerutti directs the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana and Ab Harmoniae chorus. Soprano Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni takes on the title singing role. Didon appeared on two Bongiovanni compact discs in 2022.
SUNDAY MAY 14TH Mattheson, Boris Goudenow Modest Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov (1874) lies at the fringe of the international operatic repertoire and it has a not inconsiderable discography, from which I have drawn various recordings for broadcast over the decades. Various distinguished bassos have essayed the title role: Feodor Chaliapin, Boris Christoff and Martti Talvela spring to mind. Personally, I think nothing beats Mussorgsky's only complete opera for dramatic power, especially as a character study in guilt, making it the alltime greatest Russian opera,surely, and arguably the single greatest operatic tragedy of the nineteenth century. But Musssorgsky's BG is not the only such work about the 16th century Russian Czar. There's a Boris Goudenow in German language by the baroque opera composer Johann Mattheson (1681-1764). The only lyric theater work by Mattheson I have previously aired is a Christmas oratorio, Das grosste Kind (1720?), heard in a German cpo label CD release on this program on Sunday, December 18, 2016. The manuscript of this work was discovered in Armenia and returned to Hamburg in Germany, where Mattheson lived and worked, in 1998. Also discovered among this same cache of Mattheson's manuscript scores is his opera Boris Goudenow (1710), intended for performance at Hamburg's Goose Market opera house but never staged there. The politics of the Baltic region and the insecure position close by of the independent international seaport of Hamburg seem to have figured in this. In Mattheson's opera Boris is not a usurper and child murderer as he is in Mussorgsky's operatic treatment. This Boris is involved in the amorous intrigues going on in the Kremlin between foreign noble suitors and two marriageable Russian princesses, of which his daughter Xenia (here called Axinia) is one. Mattheson's opera ends with Boris' coronation, which is where Mussorgsky's opera begins. It was recorded live in performance at the 2021 Innsbruck Festival Week for early music. Andrea Marchiol directs the period instrument ensemble Theresia and a cast of eight vocal soloists. A brand new 2022 release through cpo on two silver discs. I invite you to listen to this other BG opera and decide for yourself: is this Boris good enough for you?
SUNDAY MAY 21ST Puccini, Madama Butterfly Would you believe that the audience at La Scala jeered and heckled Rosina Storchio while she tried to sing the role of Cho-Cho San publicly for the first time in the premiere 1904 production of Puccini's immortal Madama Butterfly. A hostile clique in the opera house seems to have made that initial performance such a terrible failure. Puccini made some quick revisions in the score for a second production of Butterfly three months later in Brescia. Every succeeding performance from that point onwards put audiences in tears and brought the house down with thunderous applause. We know Madama Butterfly best nowadays in its further revised 1906 "Paris version." The original La Scala version was recorded in 1997 with Gunther Neuhold conducting the Bremen Philharmonic State Orchestra and Bremen Theatre Chorus. A Ukrainian soprano Svetlana Katchour is heard as Cho-Cho San, opposite British tenor Bruce Rankin as the duplicitous American naval officer B. F. Pinkerton. Naxos Records released the 1904 ur-version of Madama Butterfly on two CD's in 2002. I last broadcast this the original Butterfly on Sunday, September 8th of that same year.
SUNDAY MAY 28TH Gordon, Rappahannock County Ricky Ian Gordon (b. 1956) made a name for himself first as a composer of songs, then more recently of lyric theater music in the genre of the song cycle. He has tackled one of the most traditional subjects in all of operatic literature, the ancient Greek Orphic myth. I aired the world premiere recording of his Orpheus and Euridice (2006) on Sunday, July 6,2008. He has also taken on historical subjects. His dramatized song cycle Rappahannock County (2009/10) practically demands to be heard on the Sunday of the Memorial Day weekend. Memorial Day, formerly called Decoration Day, began as a special day to honor those who fought and died in the American Civil War. The songs of Rappahannock County are grouped as if they were five acts of an opera, one act for each year of the conflict, from 1861 in succession to 1865. The location of the Rappahannock River in Virginia serves as a boundary between North and South. The lyrics of Mark Campbell are derived ultimately from letters, diaries and personal accounts from the 1860's. A cast of five singers portray more than thirty different characters. They bring the period to life and express the devastating impact the war had on all who endured it. Ricky Ian Gordon's Rappahannock County premiered at the Virginia Arts Festival , with performers drawn from the Virginia Opera company. Rob Fischer directed the Virginia Arts Festival Orchestra. The recording was made in the Harrison Opera House in Norfolk,VA. Naxos Records issued Rappahannock County on two CD's in 2013 in its "American Classics" line. I last presented the dramatized song cycle on Sunday, May 24, 2015.
Keith Brown
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Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra |
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The Connecticut Valley Symphony Orchestra is a non-profit Community Orchestra. They present four concerts each season in the Greater Hartford area, performing works from all periods in a wide range of musical styles. The members of Hartford’s only community orchestra are serious amateurs who come from a broad spectrum of occupations.
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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.
Richard Chiarappa, Music Director 860.521.4362
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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.
Coming Up
Baroque and Beyond: A Morning of 18th- and 19th-Century Chamber Music
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, The Musical Club of Hartford welcomes club members and the general public to enjoy a morning of 18th and 19th century chamber music, performed live by club members, in the spacious sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT. The program will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will run about 90 minutes without intermission. For the first part of this lively program, David Schonfeld (baroque oboe), Leo Snow (flauto traverso), Deborah Robin (recorder), Susan Mardinly (mezzo-soprano), Laura Mazza-Dixon (viola da gamba) and Anne Mayo (harpsicord) will perform chamber music works by four Baroque composers:
- François Chauvon’s Onziéme Suitte, from Tibiades, for oboe and basso continuo
- Anna Bon di Venezia’s Sonata in D, Op. 1, No. 4 for flauto traverso and basso continuo
- Georg Philipp Telemann’s Quartet in D minor, TWV 43:d1, for alto recorder, flauto traverso, oboe, and basso continuo
- George Frideric Handel’s Lascia ch'io pianga (aria from Rinaldo, Act II) for mezzo-soprano and basso continuo
For the program finale, Lisa Kugelman (violin), Fran Bard (cello) and Stacy Cahoon (piano) will bring the audience into the 19th century with two movements of Antonín Dvorák’s Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor, Opus 65:
- Movement 2: Allegretto grazioso (C-sharp minor)
- Movement 3: Poco Adagio (A-flat major)
Pianist Gilles Vonsattel Performs Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn in Recital
On Thursday, May 18, 2023, the Musical Club of Hartford presents a daytime solo recital featuring Swiss-born American pianist Gilles Vonsattel performing works by Bach, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. The recital will take place in the spacious sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT. The program will begin at 10:00 am. and will run about 90 minutes with a brief intermission.
On Thursday, May 25, 2023, The Musical Club of Hartford welcomes club members and the general public to an eclectic program of live, classical and classically inspired music performed by instrumentalists and singers drawn from the talented pool of performing Musical Club members and invited musical guests. This daytime concert will take place in the spacious sanctuary of Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford, CT. The program will begin at 10:00 a.m. and will run about 90 minutes without intermission. The program will include four distinct sets of music, featuring varied musical themes, styles, and instrumentation:
- Music and Poetry of Ukraine. Laura Mazza-Dixon directs the Windy Hill Guitar Ensemble – student guitarists Mattias J. Kachala, Stefan I. Kachala, Iris Paul, Mark Zhoukliy, Matthew Zhoukliy, and Victoria Zirolli – in arrangements of Ukrainian folk songs, the Ukrainian National Anthem, Ukrainian poetry, and Melodia by Myroslav Skoryk, the Ukrainian orchestral piece President Zelensky chose to have played when he spoke before the U.S. Congress. Ivan Khrystenco (bandura), Leo Snow (flute) and Walter Mayo (bass) will also perform.
- Solos and Duets for Mezzo-Soprano, Baritone and Piano. Anne Filion (mezzo-soprano), David Kennedy (baritone) and Colette Switaj (piano) will perform an array of songs by George and Ira Gershwin, Earl Robinson, and Giuseppe Verdi.
- Celtic Suite #1 (“Tales of Old” Flute Suite) by Herman Beeftink (b. 1953). A five-movement suite for flute trio performed by Michael Schuster (alto flute), Nancy Steele (flute) and Cynthia Lang (piccolo)
- Piano Sonata #21 in C Major, Opus 53 (Movement 1: Allegro con brio) by Ludwig van Beethoven and The Lark, by Mikhail Glinka and Mily Balakirev, performed by Soohyung Yoo, piano.
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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.
In Conjunction With
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Connecticut Lyric Opera to Stage Mozart's Don Giovanni in Collaboration with Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra
Lusty Misadventures of Don Juan to be Presented in New Britain, Hartford, New London, and Middletown
Mozart's Don Giovanni, considered to be one of the greatest operatic works in the classical repertoire, will receive a gripping production by Connecticut Lyric Opera (CLO) in partnership with the Connecticut Virtuosi Orchestra. Under the music direction of Maestro Adrian Sylveen and the stage direction of Giorgio Lalov, this lusty Don Juan story will tour the state with performances at four locations in central and southeast Connecticut. Don Giovanni will be a professional production featuring singers who have been seen at The Met, European opera houses, and beyond. The performance schedule is as follows:
Friday, May 5, 7:30 PM
Trinity-On-Main, New Britain
Sunday, May 7, 7:30 PM
Belding Theater, Bushnell, Hartford
Friday, May 12 7:30 PM
Garde Arts Center, New London
Sunday, June 4 4:00 PM
Santo Fragilio Performing Arts Center, Middletown
Tickets for all performances can be purchased by visiting CTLyricOpera.org or TheVirtuosi.org.
https://ctlyricopera.org/
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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.
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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.
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Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale
Bringing Music to our Community for 60 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.
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Beth El Temple Music & Art
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.
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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 artists.
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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
“Ellis Island: The Dream of America”
Sunday, May 14, 3:00 pm, University of St. Joseph
The Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra will present the dramatic, multi-media "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" by Peter Boyer, as the featured work of its concert, "Voyages," Sunday, May 14, 3:00 p.m. at the Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyette Athenaeum at the University of St. Joseph, 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford.
The program, to be conducted by FVSO Music Director Jonathan Colby, will also include Mendelssohn's "Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage" based on poems by Goethe that describe the perilous journeys of ocean sailing in the days before steam-powered vessels.
Tickets can be purchased in advance at: http://www.fvso.org. Further information is available at the web site or by calling 800-975-FVSO
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South Windsor Cultural Arts
SWCA Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/SouthWindsorCulturalArts
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The New Britain Symphony Orchestra
The 73 year old 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.
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Ahmad Jamal, Jazz Piano Legend and Icon Dies at 92.
Ahmad Jamal, composer and jazz pianist passed away on April 16th. He was 92.
Known for his spare playing, using silence for emphasis, his humor and minimalist playing style, he was one of the most influential and innovative jazz artists in history with a 65 year career.
Originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he began playing piano when he was 3 years old. At 10 years , he studied classical piano and later, often referred to jazz as “American Classical Music”. He began his career in Chicago, Illinois, where he founded his first working trio. A prolific musician, he leaves over 70 albums as leader with many of them being reissued many times.
He died at his home in Ashley Falls, Massachusetts.
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