November 2010
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Kavafian Plays Mozart
NHSO Music Director William Boughton conducts Kavafian Plays Mozart Thursday, December 2 at 7:30pm in Woolsey Hall and Sunday, December 5 at 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. He will be joined by special guests soprano Hana Park and The Fairfield County Children’s Choir for Augusta Read Thomas’ Daylight Divine. Also featured will be the NHSO’s own concertmaster, renowned...
Nature, Poetry & The Symphony
We are very excited to have esteemed poet Margaret Gibson as our guest at SymphonyCity: The Nature of Art on November 29, 5:30pm at The Study at Yale.
Ms. Gibson will read her own nature poems and two poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins that form the basis for Augusta Read Thomas’ Daylight Divine that is featured in the upcoming Kavafian Plays Mozart concerts on December 2 and 5. Ms. Gibson will...
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Why Mahler
NORMAN LEBRECHT SPEAKS AND SIGNS BOOKS THIS EVENING Classical music observer Norman Lebrecht will stop off in New Haven on his book tour to discuss his latest treasure WHY MAHLER?. The NHSO and the Yale School of Music will host a lecture on Wednesday, November 17, 5:00pm at Sudler Hall, 100 Wall St., on the Yale University campus. This event is free and open to the public. Copies of the book will...
August 2010
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“A life altering experience.”
“I felt 20 years younger”
“All your senses become one with the music.”
“Women… a whole different experience than seeing Sex In The City.”
“Like you were some place and some time else.”
“It’s theater, as much as a fine restaurant is theater.”
“Why listen to music when you can experience it. Live.”