Saturday, May 10, 2008 - NICHOLAS WHITE ORGAN CONCERT

This will be a Mother's Day Memorial concert. If you would like to have the concert dedicated to your mother or in memory of your mother, please call the church office for information.

Music will include compositions by Bach, Franck, Langlais, Messiaen and Reubke.

For more information on Nicholas White, visit his website at http://www.nicholaswhite.com.

Back by popular demand from October 2006, Connecticut's best steel band helped Trinity celebrate Epiphany - Three King's Day - along with our friends in Torrington's Hispanic community. The band played everything from reggae and calypso to Latin and classical, there were gifts for the children, and a parade of the three kings.

LITTLE WINDOWS performed a mix of Appalachian and Irish music, and traditionally-based originals, with a special focus placed on unaccompanied ballads.

Mark Weems and Julee Glaub tour together nationally and internationally with a focus on the art of the pure voice with tight harmonies in traditional songs from the Appalachian and Irish traditions.. Instrumentation included guitar, fiddle, banjo, flute, piano and bodhrán. Together they brought a beautiful blend of both traditions with a unique harmonic sound that is rare. Their homebase is Durham, NC.

Paul Halley, acclaimed organist, pianist and composer, gave an organ concert on Trinity Church's fine Austin pipe organ. Halley has been Director of Music at Trinity Episcopal Church for the last 8 years, was Director of Music at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC for 13 years, and 18 years as Principal Composer and Keyboardist with The Paul Winter Consort 

The concert featured works by J. S. Bach, Olivier Messaien, Cesar Franck and Paul Halley, among others. Mr. Halley is relocating to Halifax, Nova Scotia, in July 2007.

Everyman Guild from Waterbury offered a concert of Renaissance Spanish music, and the concert was attended by several hundred members of Torrington's Hispanic community. Children enjoyed a visit by the three kings -- Los Tres Reyes -- who came with gifts, and all enjoyed crafts and good food in the parish hall.

St. Luke's Steel Band from New Haven brought their high-energy music to Trinity to kick off our 2006-2007 season of concerts. Their musicians range in age from 11 to 76, and their music ranges from classical to folk music in the tradition of Jamaica.

Part of the concert featured the training choir of Chorus Angelicus, the youngest members of the Joyful Noise family, under the direction of Karen Sovak.

The band has been hailed as one of the most exciting performing groups in Connecticut and were honored with the Arts Award in 2003 from the Arts Council of New Haven.

FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 2006 - Steven Fraser Organ Concert

Steven R. Fraser, organ scholar at Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington for the last two academic years, played a concert on Trinity's 68-rank Moller-Austin organ. His selections included organ masterworks from the late nineteenth century French composers as well as contemporary pieces and one of his own compositions.

Steven dazzled the audience at his Master's Degree recital at Yale earlier this year, playing Yale's great Woolsey Hall Skinner organ. He has participated in several organ competitions, winning first place in the National Organ Competition in Fort Wayne, IN, in 2004 and also in the Royal Conservatory Competition in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario. He spent the summer in France competing and studying improvisation.

SATURDAY, MAY 13

Tea with Harriet Beecher Stowe

Local historian of the Civil War period, Jane Sabatelli, talked about the life and times of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). Mrs. Stowe was born in Litchfield in 1811 and died in Hartford in 1896. Ms. Sabatelli is an expert in the daily life of women in this period of history and gave a highly entertaining presentation, wearing period clothes and staged with vintage accessories.

(Image at left of Mrs. Stowe is from Corbin-Bettman Archives.)