If you are looking for symphonic music performed in a cozy, local space, be sure to go to the American Chamber Orchestra's concert on Saturday, February 6 at 8 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Fairfield. This 60+ member group draws its musicians from various Connecticut counties and prides itself on engaging the audience ...
I was quite saddened to learn of the recent death of George Jellinek, a former music director of the New York classical music radio station WQXR. His vocal delivery was the antithesis of the pop music radio announcers and broadcasters with his understated tone, immense knowledge and ...
As part of its outreach mission of educating the young by featuring young artists, the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra is proud to offer a Young Strings Festival Concert on Saturday, January 30 at 7:00 PM. These predominantly middle school string players will be performing selected themes from ...
Jean Simmons, a graceful British born actress who became an American citizen in 1956 passed away on January 22nd. The International Directory of Film and Filmmakers had this to say about her, “Sort of The Star that Got Away, Simmons's iridescent work brings a tinge of regret about the wasted potential of an indisputably great actress and an unrealized movie superstar.” Simmons was an award winning actress who appeared so fragile on the screen yet gave powerful performances in such film as "Great Expectations" (1946), Hamlet (1948) for which she was nominated for an Oscar , Spartacus (1960), Elmer Gantry...
Every so often, I fall upon a piece in the New York Times that encapsulates my feelings for the dedication and sacrifice of many of the music teachers that I have known. Michael Gordon, a co-founder of New York's Bang on a Can collective, has written a moving, eloquent homage to his teachers and to the city ...
What is it about practicing a musical instrument that makes us cringe? Why do we despise the monotony of it and look for any reason to be excused from it? Why do we view it as a daily grind? Does practicing have any redeeming features ...
Join fellow movie and literature lovers for a showing of Bright Star (119 minutes) on February 3rd promptly at 7 pm in the Westport Library’s McManus Room. Directed by Jane Campion, Bright Star pays homage to nineteenth century poet John Keats' unstoppable love affair with Fanny Brawne that ended with his tragic death at age 25. Roger Ebert describes it as “visual beauty to match Keats' verbal beauty.” Keats joins a list of British literary figures more recently portrayed on the screen. Renee Zallweger who seems to favor movies where she can put on a British accent played the creator...
