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Long Wharf Honors “Founders”

by | May 12, 2011 5:39 pm | Comments (0)

From left, Charles Kingsley, incoming Board Chair and partner at Wiggin and Dana; Anne Schenck, Honorary Founder Trustee; Val Capobianco, owner of Brazi’s; Gordon Edelstein, artistic director; Dr. Stephen Brenner, Mary Pepe (Board Chair); Terry Jones, a member of Long Wharf Theatre’s Board of Trustees and a partner at Wiggin and Dana.

(Christine Saari of the Arts Council submitted this report and photo.)

During the 2011 – 2012 season announcement event on Monday, Long Wharf Theatre presented three Founders Awards” to acknowledge the extraordinary contributions of its most dedicated local supporters.

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NEA Report: Public Spends $14.5 B On Arts

by | May 3, 2011 3:45 pm | Comments (0)

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Rocco Landesman

The National Endowment for the Arts has released a report that analyzes the value of arts and culture through concrete monetary measures, through revealed preferences’ as seen through consumer spending, and through time use, which is a quality of life’ measure,” according to a press release issued last week. 

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Long Wharf Names Interim Managing Director

by | May 2, 2011 12:32 pm | Comments (0)

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Joshua Borenstein

Joshua Borenstein, former associate managing director at Long Wharf Theatre, will return to the organization on an interim basis while a permanent successor to Ray Cullom is sought. In March, Cullom announced his resignation as the organization’s managing director, a position he assumed in May 2009.

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Visitors Guide Adds Arts Listings

by | Apr 28, 2011 11:15 am | Comments (0)

REX Development/Visit New Haven has announced the publication of a Greater New Haven Cultural & Visitors Guide. In past years, the Greater New Haven Convention and Visitors Bureau, which no longer exists, published an annual Visitors Guide. Last year, the print piece was published by REX Development/Visit New Haven. Given that a significant number of queries received by Visit New Haven are arts-related, the organization partnered with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven to include cultural listings in this year’s publication. 

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Dance Collective, Symphony Partner With Aquarium

by | Apr 27, 2011 2:59 pm | Comments (0)

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Elm City Dance Collective have been working with the Mystic Aquarium to present a cutting edge contemporary dance piece depicting the amazing aquatic life on land and in the sea,” as described in a joint press release issued on Monday. The work, Aquatic Dances/The Blue Project, features choreography set to music by J.S. Bach, Jeremy Cohen, Philip Glass, and Vivaldi. 

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Symphony, Chorale Announce Partnership

by | Apr 21, 2011 12:21 pm | Comments (2)

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New Haven Symphony Orchestra Executive Director Natalie Forbes

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will begin providing administrative support services” to the New Haven Chorale. The scope of services will initially focus on marketing and promotional support,” according to a press release issued by the orchestra on Wednesday. 

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Al Marder Honored For Freedom Trail Work

by | Apr 20, 2011 2:38 pm | Comments (0)

Al Marder

Alfred Marder has received a Governor’s Award for Excellence in Culture & Tourism, the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism announced on Tuesday.

Marder will be honored at an April 27 ceremony in Hartford, along with three other award recipients: the Stamford-based Curtain Call theater, actor Keir Dullea, and Lyman Orchards, an agri-tourism destination” (as characterized in the commission’s press release) in Middlefield.

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3 Win Yale Concerto Competition

by | Apr 19, 2011 12:51 pm | Comments (0)

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Soo Ryun Baek

Three winners have emerged from a group of 22 finalists who competed on Saturday in the Yale School of Music’s Woolsey Hall Competition. They are: violinist Soo Ryun Baek, pianist Lindsay Garritson, and harpist Kristan Toczko. Each of the competition winners will perform next season with the Philharmonia Orchestra at Yale.

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Stotts Awarded Arts Administration Fellowship

by | Apr 14, 2011 2:33 pm | Comments (0)

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Michael Stotts

Michael Stotts, managing director of the Hartford Stage, has been awarded the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism’s 2011 Elizabeth L. Mahaffey Arts Administration Fellowship. A press release issued by the commission on Tuesday reads, in part: The annual Fellowship of $2,500, to be used for professional development activities, acknowledges the important role that arts administrators play in the state’s arts industry.”

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“Top Talent” Scholarship Finalists Announced

by | Apr 6, 2011 5:56 am | Comments (0)

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Brad Bahner, a drummer from Deep River, won the instrumental music category in last year’s Shoreline’s Top Talent competition.

The Shoreline Arts Alliance Monday announced the finalists for the organization’s Shoreline’s Top Talent scholarship competition. Scholarship winners will be announced at a May 1 Shoreline’s Top Talent Showcase at the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center in Old Saybrook.

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NMS Warner Scholars Announced

by | Apr 1, 2011 1:17 pm | Comments (2)

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Warner Scholars (left to right): Lily Engbith, Justin Green, Maya Rosen-Buell, and Danae Morgan with NMS Executive Director Larry Zukof. Warner Scholar Heather Buleje is not pictured

Neighborhood Music School has identified its 2010 – 2011 Warner Scholars. The award recipients are cellist Heather Buleje (a senior at Wilbur Cross High School), violinist Lily Engbith (a sophomore at Wilbur Cross High School), violinist Justin Green (a senior at Hillhouse High School), clarinetist and saxophonist Danae Morgan (a senior at Wilbur Cross High School), and violinist Maya Rosen-Buell (a senior at Wilbur Cross High School).

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“Einstein” Moonwalks Into New Haven

by | Mar 28, 2011 11:36 am | Comments (1)

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Joshua Foer

New Haven resident Joshua Foer, author of the bestselling book Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, will engage the community’s curiosity on Saturday, April 9 — Obscura Day 2011” — by presenting a tour of the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library’s brain collection.

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Education Takes Center Stage At Long Wharf

by | Mar 24, 2011 3:54 pm | Comments (0)

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Annie DiMartino (far right) works with students in Long Wharf Theatre’s Urban-Suburban project

At Long Wharf Theatre, artists of the future” are creating a production for our audiences of the future,” Annie DiMartino, the organization’s director of education, said Thursday. Residents of Long Wharf’s Next Stage program will present Mac Wellman’s rock musical (with a score by Michael Roth) tigertigertiger April 7 – 9.

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Concert To Benefit Japan Earthquake Relief

by | Mar 23, 2011 11:30 am | Comments (0)

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Masaaki Suzuki

Bach Collegium Japan will perform its namesake’s Mass in B minor this Saturday in a concert to benefit Yale’s relief efforts for the Japan earthquake,” according to the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, which is presenting the event. All proceeds from ticket sales and donations received at the performance will be forwarded by Yale to the Red Cross-Japan Earthquake,” YISM’s website indicates.

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Musical Instrument Collection Director Named

by | Mar 15, 2011 9:12 am | Comments (0)

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William Purvis

William Purvis has been appointed director of Yale University’s Collection of Musical Instruments, a position he has held, on an interim basis, since 2008.

Perhaps the greatest importance of the collection,” Purvis said, is the extent to which it places Western music in perspective … in the most profound sense.”

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Sesame St.‘s “Maria” Brings Immigrant Stories Here

by | Mar 2, 2011 2:55 pm | Comments (0)

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Sonia Manzano

The immigrant experience examined in Aditi Brennan Kapil’s Agnes Under the Big Top will be investigated further on Monday, March 14, when Selected Shorts—a Public Radio International program recorded live at New York’s Symphony Space — comes to Long Wharf Theatre.

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