by | Nov 14, 2011 2:56 pm | Comments (0)
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Emma Konicki shows off her ornament
Fourth-graders from New Haven’s Worthington Hooker School have designed ornaments for a Connecticut Christmas tree that will be part of the National Christmas Tree display in December, according to a New Haven Public Schools press release.
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by | Nov 10, 2011 2:45 pm | Comments (0)
Victoria Gardner has stepped down as general manager at the Hillhouse Opera Company.
“Sarah Kennedy, who has been involved with HOC on many levels, has been named Interim General Manager, while Gardner will continue to have input as founder and President of HOC,” the organization said in a press release.
by | Nov 3, 2011 7:41 am | Comments (0)
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For 20 years, the New England Ballet Company, like so many others, has staged productions of The Nutcracker. Attending performances of Tchaikovsky’s beloved ballet has long been a holiday tradition among audiences everywhere. Last winter, ballet-goers in this area had the opportunity to celebrate performances of the work by those among us with autism and other disabilities. For the second consecutive year, the New England Ballet Company will present its “Adaptive Nutcracker Suite” at the Parsons Government Center in Milford.
by | Nov 2, 2011 1:35 pm | Comments (0)
The Yale School of Music announced yesterday that two members of the Tokyo String Quartet, which has been in residence at the school for 35 years, plan to retire from the ensemble. Violist Kazuhide Isomura, who’s been with the quartet since it was formed at The Juilliard School in 1969, and violinist Kikuei Ikeda, who joined the ensemble in 1974, will leave the group in June 2013.
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by | Oct 27, 2011 12:20 pm | Comments (1)
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William Boughton
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra is offering free concert admission to “active duty military personnel and their families,” according to a press release by the organization. The orchestra’s Blue Star Tickets Program is scheduled to kick off with a Nov. 10 performance of Ravel’s orchestral arrangement of his piano suite Le tombeau de Couperin, which recognized acquaintances killed during World War 1.
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by | Oct 26, 2011 2:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Dexter Singleton, seated, with the Collective Consciousness Theatre Board of Directors.
The New Haven-based Collective Consciousness Theatre and its co-founder and executive director, Dexter Singleton, will be one of three organizations this Saturday to receive a 2011 Morris Wessel Prize.
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by | Oct 20, 2011 12:50 pm | Comments (0)
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The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library recently acquired the papers of Thomas Thistlewood, an 18th century Englishman who traveled in 1750 to Jamaica, where he chronicled in an extensive collection of writings his experiences over the course of more than three decades as a slave master and plantation owner.
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by | Oct 19, 2011 2:50 pm | Comments (0)
While audiences know her primarily as one of the most pre-eminent concert pianists performing today, Hélène Grimaud has also established herself as an active wolf conservationist. On Saturday afternoon, an “ambassador” from the Wolf Conservation Center in South Salem, N.Y., which Grimaud co-founded in 1999, will visit the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.
by | Oct 18, 2011 4:23 pm | Comments (0)
George Mathew, whose benefit concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York have raised money for international humanitarian causes, will visit Southern Connecticut State University Wednesday to discuss and rehearse a movement of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for String Orchestra in C major, Op. 48, “as a way to illustrate how choice determines people’s direction in life and also in any given moment,” according to composer and SCSU professor of music Mark Kuss.
by | Oct 12, 2011 11:33 am | Comments (0)
After 16 months of negotiations, the management and musicians of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra on Monday announced the ratification of a new collective bargaining agreement.
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by | Oct 6, 2011 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
Colleen Shaddox
As many Red Sox fans dust off their voodoo dolls for tonight’s Yankees-Tigers game, hoping that the elimination of the Bronx Bombers from the playoffs will ever-so-slightly ease the pain of Boston’s disastrous end-of-the-season collapse, others have found more constructive ways of dealing with the emotional whiplash that comes with Red Sox Nation membership. For Hamden’s Colleen Shaddox, it was writing a short story titled Consummation: 2004, which is included in Suicidally Beautiful: A Collection of Sport Stories, slated for release by Main Street Rag in January.
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by | Sep 29, 2011 12:18 pm | Comments (0)
Jill Abramson
The International Festival of Arts & Ideas will present its 2011 Visionary Leadership Award to New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson at a Nov.4 benefit luncheon at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale.
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by | Sep 28, 2011 11:47 am | Comments (0)
Neighborhood Music School will announce today that it has received a donation of $100,000 from First Niagara, which will be the presenting sponsor for the school’s yearlong centennial celebration.
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by | Sep 20, 2011 9:52 pm | Comments (1)
Local spoken-word artist Frank Brady will perform in Washington, D.C., Thursday at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s Annual Legislative Conference. Brady will perform a 2009 poem titled Progress is Personal, a work, he said, that plays off W.E.B. Du Bois’ concept of “double consciousness.”
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by | Sep 19, 2011 9:51 am | Comments (1)
Amity Regional High School seniors Sivan Battat and Jenny Liu were among six students to receive 2011 Milton Fisher Scholarships for Innovation and Creativity, an annual award administered by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven on behalf of the Renée B. Fisher Foundation.
by | Sep 15, 2011 12:15 pm | Comments (0)
By the time the 2012 International Festival of Art & Ideas opens in June, the organization’s executive director, Mary Lou Aleskie, hopes to have unveiled a new pavilion on the lower part of the New Haven Green. The temporary structure, which will house the festival’s information center, will be designed by Yale School of Architecture graduate students in a spring semester “Assembly” seminar.
by | Sep 14, 2011 1:29 pm | Comments (0)
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Garth Neustadter
Two Yale School of Music composers have earned prestigious awards for their work. Yoshiaki Onishi, who received a master of music degree in 2007 and an artist diploma in 2008, received the Gaudeamus Prize for his Départ dans…. And Garth Neustadter, who’s scheduled to receive his master of music degree in 2012, won a Primetime Emmy Award for his original score for John Muir in the New World, a documentary film created for PBS’ American Masters series.
by | Sep 9, 2011 2:26 pm | Comments (0)
Later this month, Long Wharf Theatre will stage monologues based on works by residents of New Haven’s Tower One/Tower East assisted-living facility. The program’s title, The Ups and Downs of Life: Rising to the Occasion, is a reference to “the grand opening of Tower One’s new third elevator,” according to a press release issued by the theater. “The Towers’ long-awaited newest addition was the cause of much angst and merriment in its community,” the press release indicates.
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by | Sep 7, 2011 11:11 am | Comments (0)
The Shoreline Arts Alliance has named Eric Dillner the organization’s new CEO and executive director. According to a press release issued by the organization Tuesday, Dillner previously served as artistic/producing director of in-house productions at the David A. Straz, Jr. Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Fla., artistic/general director of the Shreveport Opera in Louisiana, and managing director of the Skylight Opera Theatre in Milwaukee, Wis.
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by | Sep 1, 2011 7:07 am | Comments (0)
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Jeffrey Douma
Auditions will be held in New Haven and New York in September for a “new professional choral ensemble” organized by the Yale School of Music and Yale Glee Club, according to the school’s website.
by | Aug 31, 2011 11:00 am | Comments (1)
The Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism has eliminated the position of Arts Division director effective Sept. 13. The Arts Division will then fall under the purview of Culture Director David Bahlman, who also directs the commission’s State Historic Preservation Office. The position has been held by An-Ming Truxes for seven years.
by | Aug 25, 2011 1:29 pm | Comments (8)
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Department of Cultural Affairs Director Barbara Lamb, Public Art Coordinator Margaret Bodell, and Kim Futrell
Barbara Lamb, who’s served as director of the City of New Haven’s Department of Cultural Affairs, plans to retire on Sept. 16.
“I really feel like it’s time to step down, time for me to move on to other things,” Lamb said.
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by | Aug 24, 2011 11:39 am | Comments (0)
Hermelindo Ruiz
Two Yale School of Music students recently took top honors at prestigious instrumental competitions. Puerto Rican guitarist Hermelindo Ruiz, who studies with Benjamin Verdery and is scheduled to earn his master of music degree next year, was given the Andrés Segovia – José Miguel Ruiz Morales Prize at the Curso de Música de Santiago de Compostela, in Spain. Jihoon Shin, a South Korean flutist who earned a master of music degree from the Yale School of Music in 2009, won the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition.
by | Aug 16, 2011 10:23 am | Comments (0)
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Gordon Edelstein.
Long Wharf Theatre‘s artistic director, Gordon Edelstein, will direct a Roundabout Theatre Company production of Athol Fugard’s The Road To Mecca. The production will represent the Broadway premiere of the play, according to a press release issued by Long Wharf.
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by | Aug 15, 2011 11:01 am | Comments (0)
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Laura Cahn
Westville resident Laura Cahn has been named director of the Kehler Liddell Gallery, effective Sept. 1.
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