Program Guide October 2024

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WWUH Classical Programming

October 2024

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

Tuesday 1st

Lloyd: Symphony #1; Partch: U. S. Highball; Hindemith: Concert Music for Strings and Brass; Carpenter: Skyscrapers;Glass: Low Symphony (Symphony #1)

Drake’s Village Brass Band John Wilson, Black Dyke Band – Bliss Works for Brass

Wednesday 2nd

J. S. Bach, Dona Nobis Pacem, Mass in B-min; Reena Esmail, This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity; Antonin Dvorak, Serenade for Strings ; Frank Ticheli, There Will Be Rest; Max Bruch, Kol Nidrei; Ludwig von Beethoven, Symphony # 6 “Pastoral”; Kurt Bestor, Prayer of the Children; Dominick Argento, Sermon, Evensong: Of Love and Angels; Alan Hovhaness, Prayer of St. Gregory; John Tavener, Lament for Jerusalem

Thursday 3rd

Dauvergne: Concerts de Simphonies à IV Parties Op. 3; Potter: Piano Concerto No. 2 in d minor; Bargiel: Adagio for cello & orchestra in G Major Op. 38; Blodek: In the Well – Moonrise.

Friday 4th

The Kronos plays . . !

Sunday 6th

Handel, Alcina

Monday 7th

Host’s choice

Tuesday 8th

Copland Conducts Copland- Symphonic Ode, Preamble to a Solemn Occasion, Orchestral Variations; Mahler: Symphony #10

Drake’s Village Brass Band Reinhold Friedrich Brass Quintet – Unity

Wednesday 9th

Peter von Winter: Overture in C Minor, Op. 24;  Gaetano Pugnani: Demofoonte, Aria: Misero pargoletto;  Muzio Clementi: Piano Concerto in C Major;  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338;  Vincenzo Bellini: Beatrice di Tenda: Act I: Prelude; Scenes 5-6: Respiro io qui…Come, ah come ogni cosa…Oh! Mie Fedeli…Ma la sola…Ah! La pena in lor piombo;  Giovanni Caramiello: Divertimento sull'Opera Don Carlo di G. Verdi for Harp and Piano;  Richard Strauss: 8 Gedichte aus Letzte Blatter, Op. 10, TrV 141 - Excerpts for Oboe and Piano;  William Walton: 2 Pieces for Violin and Piano: No. 1. Canzonetta and No. 2. Scherzetto;  William Grant Still: American Suite;  Gioachino Rossini: Le siege de Corinthe, Act I: La flamme rapide … La gloire et la fortune;   Giuseppe Martucci: Fantasia sull'opera La forza del destino, Op. 1;  Hugo Wolf: Eichendorff Lieder (excerpts);  Reynaldo Hahn: Quatuor avec piano;  Percy Grainger: Paraphrase on the Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker;  Antonio Carlos Gomes: Il Guarany: Sinfonia (Overture);  Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 75;  Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi, Act II: La tregenda;  Antonin Dvorak: Symphonic Variations, Op. 78, B. 70;   Emmanuel Chabrier: Gwendoline: Overture (Encore).  

Thursday 10th

Handel: Alcina Overture; Chopin: Fantasia in A Major on Polish Airs Op. 13; Schubert: Fantasie in f minor D940; Gassmann: Il viaggiatore ridicolo Overture; Marais: Folies d'Espagne; Grieg: Violin Sonata No. 3 in c minor Op. 45; Bach: Violin Concerto in d minor BWV 1052; Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in d; Debussy: Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune; Smetana: Má Vlast - Vysehrad (The High Castle).

Friday 11th

  Host’s choice – the train is sidetracked for Yom Kippur

Sunday 13th

Berlioz, Les Troyens,PART ONE, Acts One through Three

Monday 14th

Host's Choice

Tuesday 15th

Charles Ives at 150 Heather O’Donnell – Responses to Ives; 114 Songs Song Project the Final 10 Songs plus 2, Three Places in New England, Symphony #4

Drake’s Village Brass Band United States Marine Band – Charles Ives America

Wednesday 16th

Host’s choice

Thursday 17th

Howells: Three Dances for violin and orchestra Op. 7; Holst: St. Paul's Suite; Pokorny: Concerto for 2 Horns in F Major; Taneyev: Sonata for Violin and Piano; Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 3 in c minor Op. 60.

Friday 18th

Native American Music of R. Carlo Nakai

Sunday 20th

Berlioz, LesTroyens, PART TWO, Acts Four & Five, Purcell, Dido and Aeneas 

Monday 21st

Host's Choice

Tuesday 22nd

Hartmann: Violin Concerto; Clyne: The Seamstress Concerto for Violin and Orchestra; Walton: Sonata for String Orchestra; Stravinsky: Apollon Musagete; Ives: Symphony #2

Drake’s Village Brass Band Corporon, North Texas Wind Symphony – Dream Catchers

Wednesday 23rd

Host's Choice

Thursday 24th

Carnicer: Fantasy for Clarinet & Piano; Baermann: Konzertstück in E-Flat Major; Hiller: Piano Concerto No. 2 in f sharp minor Op. 69; Kalman: The Gypsy Princess – Potpourri.

Friday 25th

Pre-Halloween music - Philip Glass: Dracula and R. Strauss Death and Transfiguration

Sunday 27th

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera

Monday 28th

Host's Choice

Tuesday 29th

Tuesday Night at the Movies Walton Film Music Vol 2 – Marriner and Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Mauceri Hollywood Bowl Orchestra – Journey to the Stars; Elman: Wunderkammer

Drake’s Village Brass Band Dooly: Mondrian’s Studio for Horn and Orchestra; Jones: Concerto for Trombone and Orchestra

Wednesday 30th

Don Raye, The Headless Horseman; Vittorio Giannini, Concerto Grosso; Hendrik Hofmeyr, Spokewals; Robert Applebaum, Witches’ Blues; Sergei Prokofiev, Peter and the Wolf; Gyorgy Ligeti, Ejszaka; Gyorgy Ligeti, Reggel; W. A. Mozart, Symphony #8; Paul Dukas, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; Clara W. Schumann, Piano Concerto in A-min; Frederic Chopin, Nocturne #20 in C-Sharp-min, Op. Posthumous; Henry Eccles, Double Bass Sonata (possible deletion); Jaako Mantyjarvi, Double, Double, Toil, and Trouble, Four Shakespeare Songs; Aaron Jay Kernis, Goblin Market; Gustav Holst, Neptune, The Planets Suite; Robert Schumann, Zigeunerleben; Ernst Bloch, Concerto Grosso #1 for String Orchestra and Piano; Modest Mussorgsky, Night on Bald Mountain; Frederic Chopin, Prelude #18 in F-min

Thursday 31st

Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre; Dvorak: The Noon Witch Op. 108; Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1; Rachmaninoff: The Isle of the Dead; Schubert: Die

Erlkoenig; Tartini: Violin Sonata in g minor "Devil’s Trill”; Caplet: Conte

Fantastique on The Masque of the Red Death; Borodin: In the Steppes of

Central Asia; Dukas: The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare

Mountain; Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 5 in D Op. 70 No. 1 'Ghost'; Tcherepnin:

La Princesse Lointaine Op. 4; Marschner: Der Vampyr Overture; Balakirev: 

Tamara; Weber: Der Freischütz: Wolf’s Glen scene.

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE OPERA

your "lyric theater" program

with Keith Brown



Programming for the month of October 2024

• SUNDAY OCTOBER 6TH Handel, Alcina George Frideric Handel's Alcina (1735) was one of the three"magic operas" he wrote which took their plot from incidents in Ludovico Ariosto's epic poem Orlando Furioso. Librettists of the baroque drew heavily upon Ariosto's heroic tales, and many composers exulted in setting them to music for the operatic stage. Handel's opera titled Orlando (1733) went over the air on this program on Sunday, November 6, 1988. By the 1730's the English public was losing its taste for Italian opera seria. To add a little life to the waning artform Handel emphasized the phantasmagoric spectacle in the staging, calling for more special theatrical effects than ever. Alcina is a sorceress and the queen of an enchanted island. She's much like Circe in Greek myth: the witch who beguiled many men with her amorous charms, only to turn them into servile beasts. One potential victim is the noble Christian knight Ruggiero. He's been shipwrecked on her shores. Ruggiero manages to overcome his infatuation with Alcina. He smashes the great urn wherein her magical powers reside. Handel's Alcina was revived at Covent Garden in 1962, where it premiered more than two centuries before, with the diva Joan Sutherland singing the title role. The London LP recording of that production was broadcast way back on Sunday, February 5,1989. Sutherland applied her well nigh magical powers to Handel's score, backed by the London Symphony Orchestra under her husband Richard Bonynge's direction. By today's standards that recording could scarcely be called a "historically informed" performance, but it was a start in the right direction. Decades later, on Sunday, November 13, 2011 you got to hear how baroque opera really should sound when I aired Alcina on Deutsche Grammophon CD's, with Handel specialist Alan Curtis conducting his period instrument ensemble Il Complesso Barocco and starring mezzo Joyce Didonato as the sorceress. Today we turn to another vintage DGG recording originally made in 1959 at the dawn of the modern baroque revival. Again Sutherland essays the role of Alcina opposite the legendary German lyric tenor Fritz Wunderlich as Ruggiero. This is the only time these two twentieth century vocal greats sang together. They were recorded in monaural sound live in concert broadcast from the studios of West German Radio Cologne. They were both called in as substitutes in their roles at the last minute with no prior rehearsal for a special broadcast in commemoration of the two hundredth anniversary of Handel's death. It's amazing how well they both handled the virtuoso florid baroque vocal lines. They were backed by a pioneering period instrumental group, the Cappella Coloniensis, led by Ferdinand Leitner. The WDR broadcast recording had to wait until 2008 to be officially released to the public in compact disc format. At 152 minutes of play, this Alcina is a much abridged version of the opera, compared with the Curtis Alcina at 204 minutes on three CD's: almost an hour's worth of music has been jettisoned. One entire role has been cut, and the part for Ruggiero had to be adjusted downwards from male alto (castrato) to true tenor tessitura. "But Wunderlich's singing alone is worth the cost of these discs," says Fanfare reviewer Ron Salemi, ..."when combined with Sutherland's performance the attraction is hard to resist"..."Sutherland sings magnificently. She sounds even better here than on her celebrated Decca recording three years later...Wunderlich, too, is spectacular."(Fanfare,July/August,2009.)
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• SUNDAY OCTOBER 13TH Berlioz, Les Troyens,PART ONE, Acts One through Three From the days of his childhood Hector Berlioz was fascinated with the stories contained in the Roman poet Vergil's epic poem the Aeneid. As a mature man and composer he resolved to turn the epic into a French grand opera along the lines of, and on the monumental scale of Meyerbeer or the music dramas of Wagner. He slaved away at what he would later decide to call Les Troyens through the years 1856-58. He conceived his Trojan opera in five acts. Book II of the Aeneid would comprise the first two acts. Books I and IV make up the third, fourth and fifth acts. The opera's action takes in Cassandra's prophecy about the fall of Troy to the Greeks with their wooden horse, the arrival of Aeneas and the Trojans in Carthage, and Aeneas' desertion of Queen Dido when he leaves for Italy to found the city-state of Rome. Berlioz had a lot of trouble trying to get Les Troyens staged. In total frustration he was forced to settle for a mutilated version of his masterwork to be given as two separate operas at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris in 1863. Unfortunately, I am forced to follow a similar pattern in presenting the complete Les Troyens as Berlioz intended it to be performed. The first three acts will come this Sunday. Sir Colin Davis recorded a splendid interpretation with the London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus live in concert performance in 2000 at their home venue, the Barbican auditorium. It was released in 2002 on four discs through LSO Live, the orchestra's proprietary label. The recording won two Grammy Awards, for Best Classical Recording and Best Opera Recording. Fanfare magazine's reviewer Adrian Corleonis says Colin Davis has replicated the "unabashed grandeur" of Berlioz' music he created for the Covent Garden staged production in the 1960's. Corleonis cites in particular the seemingly effortless vocal command of tenor Ben Heppner as Enee/Aeneas, as well as the singing voices of mezzos Michelle DeYoung as Didon/Dido and Petra Lang as Cassandra. (Fanfare,Nov/Dec.2001 issue.) If you enjoyed hearing my presentation of Les Troyens on Erato/Warner Classics CD's. as broadcast over two Sundays in April, 2018, you will be captivated with what Davis and the LSO have done with the opera.
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• SUNDAY OCTOBER 20TH Berlioz, LesTroyens, PART TWO, Acts Four & Five, Purcell, Dido and Aeneas Henry Purcell's mini-tragedy Dido and Aeneas (1689?) echoes the story of the last two acts of Berlioz' nineteenth century French grand opera. Dido and Aeneas is the first truly great English opera and the only opera of the seventeenth century that made it to the fringe of the international standard operatic repertoire. Purcell modelled his small-scale lyric stagework after French baroque opera: the full-scale five-act tragedies en musique of Lully. Dido and Aeneas qualifies for inclusion in the genre we call opera because it is sung throughout, unlike in the English masque tradition, which has spoken-word passages complimented by incidental musical numbers. Dido and Aeneas has been frequently recorded. One of the"legendary performances" of this Purcell's one and only true opera was recorded in 1961 for Decca/L'Oiseau Lyre and features Dame Janet Baker in the role of the abandoned Queen of Carthage. The Trojan refugee Aeneas is baritone Raimund Herincx. Anthony Lewis directs the English Chamber Orchestra and St. Anthony Singers. Thurston Dart provides the harpsichord accompaniment. Decca reissued Dido and Aeneas in 2000 in its "Legends" series. Clocking in at just under an hour in duration, Purcell's little baroque operatic gem fits perfectly into the remainder of this Sunday's timeslot. 
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• SUNDAY OCTOBER 27TH Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera Halloweentide is the season for costume parties, so this is the perfect moment to listen to Un Ballo in Maschera  ("A Masked Ball," 1859), a work of the international standard repertoire that I have broadcast four times before over four decades of opera broadcasting. It's been frequently recorded, and our WWUH record library has several classic old "Masked Balls" on LP and also on CD, in mono or early stereo sound from a half century or more ago. These I have featured on Sundays in 1989, 2010, 2011 and 2022. Newly added to our station's collection is a two-CD 1985 Decca/London release, the studio recording made in London on dates in 1982 and '83, with Sir Georg Solti conducting the National Philharmonic Orchestra and London Opera Chorus. The singing cast is absolutely stellar: the superstar tenor of his time, Luciano Pavarotti is heard as Riccardo. Soprano Christa Ludwig takes the rol;e of Ulrica. Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera suffers from a mutilated libretto. The censors in Naples forced some ridiculous changes to it. "A Masked Ball" should have been set in Sweden in the year 1791 when the Swedish monarch Gustavus III was assassinated at a costume ball. To please the censors the setting was shifted to colonial New England- to Boston, to be exact. Curiously, there's an element of humor in this opera that is absent in so many other of Verdi's works. The supposedly "gay" character, the page Oscar supplies some levity. In the Decca recording Oscar is a "breeches role" sung by mezzo Kathleen Battle.             

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Boomer's Paradise

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

Wait. It can't be October already. What happened to summer? A familiar question we ask each year. Fear not, here at Boomers Paradise we have just the musical elixir to soothe your soul.

We'll start you off with something familiar with a listen to cut from albums release 50 years ago this month and we'll couple that with songs with song titles referencing the elements (fire,water, earth, sky, etc.)

Next up since it's October and Halloween month, we'll listen to tracks whose song titles reference variations on "strange". Along with that songs with song titles with "give" and "take".

Following that we'll put on our traveling shoes and venture on the musical path of song whose titles reference, streets, roads, highways and such means of land travel.

We'll close out the month tapping into the realm of power ballads and song titles referencing speech in a variety of ways.  

So here it is for your listening enjoyment. Tune in every Monday from 1-4PM at WWUH 91.3 fm with your host, The Turtle Man

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

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 October Update

The Fall/Winter series of CTBS Blues Jams kicks off this month with The CTBS All-Stars returning as the house band. The series runs through April 2025 on the first Sunday of the month at 1 PM at The Pine Loft, 1468 Berlin Turnpike in Berlin CT. Fall schedule of featured artists:

October 6 - XY Eli

November 3 - Tommy Whalen

December 1 - Michael St. George

The CTBS sponsors a scholarship fund in memory of Mike Crandall, long-time Blues bandleader in CT/RI who passed away in 2023. The Scholarship fund was set up in November of 2023 to help a Connecticut student with camp or college. Mike Crandall was a legend in our Blues community. He was a multi-year challenge winner, a challenge judge, and a mentor to many of our players today. On Sunday October 20 at 2 PM, The CTBS is sponsoring a fundraiser for the Crandall Sholarship Fund at the Norwich Arts Center, 62 Broadway, Norwich CT. Bands donating their time to support the fundraiser:

The Mike Crandall Tribute Band featuring Drew Blood

The F & Blues Band

Snake Hill Blues

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.

Coming Up

Latin Dances

Sunday, October 27, 2024 / 3:00 PM

Congregation Beth Israel

701 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, CT 06119

PAUL MCSHEE, Music Director

JAMIE ANDRUSYAK, Violin

MIKHAIL GLINKA: Spanish Overture No. 2 “Souvenir d’une nuit d’été à Madrid”

PABLO DE SARASATE: Carmen Concert Fantasy, Op.25

JOSE PABLO MONCAYO: Huapango

NIKOLAY RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34

Connecticut Symphony Orchestra

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

Visit www.whso.org for tickets and Covid protocols.

whso.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.

Coming Up

The Musical Club of Hartford’s 2024-25 season of live daytime concerts will begin on Thursday at 10:00 am, September 26, at Westminster Presbyterian Church in West Hartford. The public is invited to attend this joyous “Music by Members and Guests” program, entitled: "From Telemann to the 1920s". This Musical Club morning program will be held in the spacious sanctuary at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2080 Boulevard, West Hartford. ​​The musical program will run about one hour, followed by an informal reception and open house.

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

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.



http://thevirtuosi.org/

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.

Coming Up

Celebrating the 150th Birthday of Charles Ives

Friday, November 1, 2024 @ 7:30

SBM Auditorium, Manchester Community College

Charles Ives: Symphony No. 2

Charles Ives: They Are There!

Horatio Parker: Scherzo in G minor

Soomin Kim: The Blue Marble



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.

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

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

Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra

Farmington Valley Symphony Returns to the Movies

Saturday, Nov. 2, 3pm, Hoffman Auditorium, Univ. of St. Joseph

The Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra returns to the movies as it kicks off its 44th season on the theme, "Symphony and the Screen". The concert, under the baton of Music Director Jonathan Colby, will take place Saturday, Nov. 2, 3 pm at the University of St. Joseph's Hoffman Auditorium, Bruyette Athenaeum, 1678 Asylum Ave., West Hartford. The films will be accompanied by a modern musical score written by the prolific contemporary American composer and lyricist William Perry. The program will also feature two enduring classics long associated with the cinema, Rossini's "William Tell Overture”, and Beethoven's "Symphony No. 7."

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

www.fvso.org

South Windsor Cultural Arts

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/