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Do arts jobs count as jobs?
By Andrew Taylor | www.artsjournal.com Scott Lilly at the Center for American Progress floats a timely reminder to the good folks in Congress currently bristling about the stimulus package: arts jobs are jobs, regardless of your opinion of what they produce. He quotes Rep. Jack Kingston’s (R-GA) remarks when complaining about the NEA funding (now [...]
A Memorable Beethoven’s Ninth
Cumming Draws Fiery Performance From Hartford Symphony By JEFFREY JOHNSON | SPECIAL TO THE COURANT October 26, 2008 As Edward Cumming conducted Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony from memory, the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, in the opening program of the 2008-2009 Masterworks Series in Mortensen Hall, responded with a fiery performance. Familiar as this work is, conducting it [...]
Soulful Performance Of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis At Bushnell
By JEFFREY JOHNSON | SPECIAL TO THE COURANT May 18, 2008 By imagining the opening Kyrie as a “slow introduction” and the Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus Dei that follow as a symphonic conception, conductor Edward Cumming argued during an inspired pre-concert discussion, we could hear Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis as a “sacred symphony.” He claimed [...]
CONCORA forced into encore by rabid audience
Local Motion: Church: Better Than Bars CONCORA forced into encore by rabid audience; 39 Mariner forced to play “Brown-Eyed Girl” for quadrillionth time By DAN BARRY Thursday, April 17, 2008 [inspic=18,right,300]How’s this for contrast: on Saturday night, I’m crammed in among the hot bodies and big screen TVs at Rookies in Cromwell, listening to 39 [...]
CONCORA Performs Flawless “Vigil”
By JEFFREY JOHNSON | SPECIAL TO THE COURANT April 15, 2008 “Dnes’ spaseniye miru byst” (“Today salvation has come to the world”). When Concora (Connecticut Choral Artists) sang this line in Russian near the end of the “All-Night Vigil” Op. 37 by Sergei Rachmaninoff, a noticeable sense of deep quiet came over the audience at [...]
Voices in harmony: a cappella sounds a new note on campus
The a capella group Extreme Measures performs at the Student Union Theatre. By Jim H. Smith Photos by Peter Morenus April 2008 In the winter of 1998, Amity Wahl ’99 (BUS), Bonnie Panda ’01 (CLAS) and Liz Conklin ’00 (CLAS) found one another as creative people so often do, attracted to the “vibe” of kindred [...]
Immanuel: The Perfect Setting For Bach Program
By JEFFREY JOHNSON | SPECIAL TO THE COURANT March 4, 2008 Bach sounds right when heard in a church. Balances blend as they diffuse and reverberate in spaces designed for worship. Concora (Connecticut Choral Artists) and the Hartford Symphony presented choral music by J. S. Bach on Sunday at Immanuel Congregational Church that allowed an [...]
Vernon Chorale starts season with new artistic director
By NANCY CONNELLY The Reminder Fall 2006 [inspic=13,left,fullscreen,thumb]VERNON — Ehren Brown may be new to his position as artistic director of the Vernon Chorale, but he is certainly not new to the organization. In 2003, he was appointed assistant conductor of the chorale and served in that capacity under his mentor, former Artistic Director Mark [...]
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