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ORONO To presented last Friday’s Masterworks IV concert, “Mozart & Schubert,” Bangor Symphony Orchestra Music Director and Conductor Lucas Richman made the most of a reduced orchestra and fit together three works that share similar instrumentation. The online concert also included the little-known composer, Marianna Martines’s Sinfonia in C Major. In his pre-concert talk, Maestro Richman expressed his delight at discovering the piece. Featuring Martines, he noted, advances the symphony’s goal of programming works by composers, including women, who are under-represented in Western classical music. Scored for strings, flute, oboes, French horns, and harpsichord, the Austrian composer’s Sinfonia is a charming piece in three movements.
Andrew Armstrong, an acclaimed concert pianist who graduated from New Canaan High School in 1992, was days into planning a new chamber concert series in his hometown last March when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. A Worcester, Mass. resident, Armstrong had gained confidence in directing the series after doing so successfully for two years in Columbia, […]
Diversity and familiarity best describe the 2021-22 Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra season, which will kick off in September with a full orchestra and audience.
Artistic advisor/conductor Bramwell Tovey described planning the season – the philharmonic s full return after the COVID-19 pandemic first shuttered, then minimized in-person shows – as a complex endeavor, and he worked to include the “familiar, intriguing and unusual.”
“We always look at what has and hasn’t been done in a while, but, after a major event, the familiarity of masterpieces is something people are anxious to hear,” he noted, adding he tried to encapsulate new and classic into each performance.
Virtuoso pianist performing at chamber music concert in New Canaan
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Virtuoso Pianist Andrew Armstrong is doing a New Canaan Chamber Music concert on Saturday, May 22, 2021, at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Virtuoso Pianist Andrew Armstrong is doing a New Canaan Chamber Music concert on Saturday, May 22, 2021, at the First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan.Contributed photoShow MoreShow Less
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Pianist Andrew Armstrong is doing a New Canaan Chamber Music outdoor spring concert performance May 22, at 5:30 p.m., at the First Presyterian Church of New Canaan. The raincheck date is May 23, at 4 p.m.
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