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Bach’s Birthday Bash

Wed, 04/05/2017 - 2:45pm
Music

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Bringing Rockwell’s Paintings to Life

Thu, 03/23/2017 - 9:52am
By
Darryl Gangloff

The vocalists who perform as part of the Crescendo choral group in the Northwest Corner will soon help bring the iconic paintings of Norman Rockwell to life through a mixture of music and animation.

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Warm Sounds In A New Space

Wed, 02/22/2017 - 2:17pm
Music: Close Encounters With Music
By
Fred Baumgarten

Celebrating its 25th anniversary in the Berkshires this year, Close Encounters With Music held its first concert of 2017 in the newly renovated Saint James Place in Great Barrington on Saturday, Feb. 18. A full house packed the spacious hall — which was Close Encounters’ original home and is now a dedicated performance space — for a concert of Bach’s unaccompanied cello suites.

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Church Donates Instrument to Yale

Wed, 02/15/2017 - 3:31pm
History

Every musician can tell a story through an instrument. But sometimes, the instrument itself is the real story.
Earlier this month, the Salisbury Congregational Church donated a historic bass viol to the Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments. According to church records, as well as the label inside the bass viol, it was made by Abraham Prescott of Deerfield and Concord, N.H., between 1830 and 1850.

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Training with robust sounds

Wed, 02/08/2017 - 2:34pm
By
Fred Baumgarten

In my long life of listening to classical music, I never heard a live performance of Debussy’s “La Mer” (The Sea), one of my favorite pieces, until The Orchestra Now played it at Bard College’s Fisher Center on Sunday, Feb. 5. It was worth waiting for.

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Contest Entered, Next Album Planned

Wed, 02/01/2017 - 2:29pm
Music
By
Darryl Gangloff

The Nice Ones have entered NPR Music’s Tiny Desk contest in the hopes of winning the chance to perform at NPR in Washington, D.C., appear at a taping of “Ask Me Another” and tour the United States. And just to add some extra pressure, the local band recorded their entry live on Facebook.
They performed a song called “Good Kids,” which will appear on a new album that will be released in the spring.

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New leader for singers

Thu, 01/12/2017 - 9:20am

Knox Sutterfield has been named the interim music director for the Kent Singers. He replaces Matt Travis, who has taken a position in Michigan. 
Sutterfield will lead the group in two concerts at St. John’s Church in New Milford: American Soundscapes on March 19 at 5 p.m. and the Mozart Requiem on June 11. 
For more information, including the group’s rehearsal schedule, go to www.kentsingers.com.

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Best of baroque concerts

Wed, 01/04/2017 - 2:44pm
Music

The Sherman Chamber Ensemble will host its annual Best of Baroque concerts on Saturday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m. at Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, N.Y., and on Sunday, Jan. 8, at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent. 
General admission tickets are $30, senior and student tickets are $25 and children ages 15 and under are admitted free with the purchase of a paid ticket. 
Tickets may be purchased at www.ShermanChamberEnsemble.org.

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A Year Full of Great Albums

Wed, 12/21/2016 - 2:44pm
Music
By
Gaberiel Napleon

This year was, by many accounts, a rotten year. However, modern music fans share a silver lining. Though several legends left us — David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen — others returned from hiatus, and even some new hopes emerged. 

Hip-hop innovators A Tribe Called Quest released their first album in 18 years (albeit an untimely posthumous one for member Phife Dawg), Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize in literature and contemporary talent like Beyoncé and Solange kept issue-driven discourse alive in the mainstream. 

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Spreading Peace Through Music

Thu, 11/03/2016 - 10:51am
Music
By
Darryl Gangloff

The Salisbury Congregational Church, in collaboration with the Scoville Memorial Library, will host the second installment of the Peace Through Understanding series on Sunday, Nov. 6. 
The event, titled “Welcoming Our Friends From the Black Church,” will begin at 2 p.m. with a dialogue by Dr. Benjamin Watts, who is the pastor of Shiloh Baptist Church of New London and a professor of homiletics at Hartford Seminary. His talk will focus on the history of the black church through paintings, poetry and music.

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