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Sunday, November 23, 2008 - ORCHESTRAL TITANS
Timothy Alexandre Wallace, piano, and Nicholas White, organ, play magnificent transcriptions of orchestral masterpieces, including selections from Gustav Holst's The Planets (Mars, Neptune and Jupiter), the first movement of Tchaikovsky's 1st piano concerto, and a special arrangement of John Philip Sousa's "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Free admission, but a free-will offering will be collected, the proceeds to benefit the repair of Trinity church's historic clock tower. Suggested donation: $20
4 PM
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 Sunday, January 4, 2009 - THREE KINGS DAY celebration
Our third annual celebration of Three Kings Day (Dio de los Tres Reyes), the major day for gift giving and joyful music in the Hispanic community, will feature the energetic Connecticut band, Island Rhythm. Musicians perform on Steel drums, Congas, Ukelele, Hawaii Lap Guitar and a variety of exotic percussion instruments. Island Rhythm performs ethnic music from the Islands of the World mixed with Beach Party & Mardi Gras Music by Jimmy Buffett, The Beach Boys, the Baha Men and Harry Belafonte. Island Rhythm enlivens performances with audience participation and interaction at a variety of levels. Everyone will be encouraged to Limbo, Conga and join in a variety of activities.
4 PM - Free
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 Saturday, February 21, 2009 - COFFEE HOUSE with smooth jazz
Enjoy an evening of smooth jazz standards and original tunes with Robert Fullerton and Friends, featuring Rob Fullerton on guitar, Joe Nerney on alto sax, Frank Schwartz on bass, Peter Waltz on guitar and Ben Fullerton on drums. This Torrington jazz group has played widely in the area to appreciative audiences. Our coffee house format will offer coffee, wine, and light food.
7:30 PM - $15
To hear selections from this ensemble, visit their page on MySpace.
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 Saturday, May 9, 2009 - ORGAN CONCERT with DOUGLAS MAJOR
The Trinity Arts Series presents its fourth annual memorial organ concert, this year starring Douglas Major on the 65-rank Moller-Austin organ. Mr. Major is the former organist and choral director at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. and is one of the leading American composers of sacred music for the organ. He was hired at the age of 21 as the assistant organist at the National Cathedral and rose to the top job in 1988. He retired from the job in 2002 to concentrate on composition and his world-wide touring as a performer. He has made many recordings
7:30 PM - Free admission.
Memorial contributions accepted for program listing. Read more about Douglas Major at his website.
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| REVIEWS OF OUR PAST EVENTS |
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 Sunday, October 19, 2008 - SOUND OF NEW ENGLAND CHORUS
Sound of New England Chorus, an award-winning Sweet Adeline chorus, entertained the audience with show tunes, ballads, and patriotic songs.
To read more about the chorus, visit their website.
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Saturday, May 10, 2008 - NICHOLAS WHITE ORGAN CONCERT
Nicholas White, organist and director of music at Trinity Episcopal Church in Torrington and Artistic Director of Joyful Noise, Inc. of Torrington, gave an organ concert on Trinity Church's magnificent Moller-Austin organ, our third annual memorial concert on the eve of Mother's Day.
Music included compositions by Bach, Franck, Langlais, Messiaen, Vierne, and White.
For more information on Nicholas White, visit his website at http://www.nicholaswhite.com. |
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Saturday, April 19, 2008 - PAUL BISACCIA PLAYS GERSHWIN
Paul Bisaccia is a charismatic performer whose highly accessible programs appeal to a wide audience. He entertained us with an evening of Gershwin tunes, including the entire Rhapsody in Blue.
Paul's own public television special, which has aired all over the country, was recently dubbed in Mandarin Chinese for broadcast in China, and he was featured in the Ric Burns PBS television series "New York." He has also appeared on National Public Radio's "Performance Today," and his recordings have been aired by radio stations throughout North America and he is the most requested pianist on beethoven.com, "the world's classical radio station."
Read about Paul at http://www.concertartists.com/PB.html. |
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| Saturday, January 5, 2008 - ST. LUKE'S STEEL BAND
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.
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| Saturday, October 27, 2007 - FOLK DUO LITTLE WINDOWS
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. |
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| PAUL HALLEY, ORGAN CONCERT - MAY 12, 2007
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. |
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| EPIPHANY - EL DIO DE LOS TRES REYES - JANUARY 6, 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. |
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| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2006 - 7:30 p.m.
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.
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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. |
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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.) |
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THE CELTIC TROUBADOURS - Friday, March 17, 2006
For a night of exciting music for the whole family, come celebrate the Celtic Tradition of music and song with Connecticut State Troubadour, Thomasina Levy (left), Celtic Expert Extraordinare Tom White and Mountain Dulcimer Master Rob Brereton. Thomasina Levy is an internationally recognized mountain dulcimer player, singer, and song writer whose performances weave together the best of traditional and contemporary folk music. She touches audiences with a simplicity, humanity, and strength drawn from the deep roots of the folk tradition. Rob Brereton's unique playing style has expanded the edges of the mountain dulcimer's repertoire, and Tom White is an expert in Celtic music who plays the fiddle, tin whistle, bodhran, hammer dulcimer, guitar, bones, spoons, -- you name it - he plays it. All three Celtic Troubadours are featured on many recordings.
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| The 2006 Medieval Banquet, our fifth, was a smashing success. With the entertainment of a court jester, the King (John McDonaugh) and Queen (Ruth Ann Baumgarten) led the revelers in an evening of merriment. Music was provided during the evening and throughout the meal by the Everyman Guild from Waterbury. The New Haven Morris Dancers provided additional entertainment with several dramatic dances, including one done in almost total darkness featuring a horse! |
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