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Join us in partnership with Naugatuck Valley Health District for a FREE Virtual Mental Health First Aid Training opportunity! The training will be split into two days (must attend both days) and is open to Meriden residents and community organization. The training will be held on Monday, October 28th and Tuesday, October 29th from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM via Zoom.
Participants will be required to complete a 2-hour, self-paced online course before attending the virtual instructor-led sessions. Participants will receive certification from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing valid for 3 years.
To register, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJGC9S6
Virtual Adult Mental Health First Aid
Join us in partnership with Naugatuck Valley Health District for a FREE Virtual Mental Health First Aid Training opportunity! The training will be split into two days (must attend both days) and is open to Meriden residents and community organization. The training will be held on Monday, October 28th and Tuesday, October 29th from 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM via Zoom.
Participants will be required to complete a 2-hour, self-paced online course before attending the virtual instructor-led sessions. Participants will receive certification from the National Council for Mental Wellbeing valid for 3 years.
To register, please visit: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/CJGC9S6
Virtual Adult Mental Health First Aid
Experience a candlelight concert like no other as we kick off our exciting new Edmond Town Hall Series - WSO’s classical string quartet performs the music of Taylor Swift.
Sat November 2nd, Candlelight Concert: Music of Taylor Swift.
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra presents - Edmond Town Hall Series: Candlelight Concert, The Music of Taylor Swift
Yale Camerata is thrilled to begin its 2024–2025 season with a fall concert entitled “Shout for Joy.” The concert will feature the music of Hailstork, Mozart, Hogan, and Harris, as well as exciting music by featured special guest artists. This first concert of the season will feature a collaboration with the engaging professional ensemble The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers.
Repertoire includes:
- Adolphus Hailstork: Shout for Joy
- Wolfgang A. Mozart: Venite Populi, KV 260
- Moses Hogan: This Little Light of Mine
- Christopher Harris: Bring Me All of Your Dreams (featuring text by Langston Hughes)
Free and open to the public.
Yale Camerata is a seventy-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985.
The Jason Max Ferdinand Singers: An Ensemble of Exceptional Talents are a professional choral ensemble of talented musicians and educators from across the US. This engaging ensemble, often referred to as The J. Max Singers, has traveled the world with recent performances in London, Japan, as well as regional and national performances at the American Choral Directors Association and National Collegiate Choral Organization conferences. They bring to each audience their mission of Innovation, Excellence, and Execution. The ensemble was the vision of its founding artistic director, Dr. Jason Max Ferdinand. Ferdinand is a renowned educator, conductor, composer, and speaker. In the past he has made a name for himself as the conductor of the Aeolian Singers of Oakwood University; however, he currently serves as the Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Choral Music at the University of Maryland. Ferdinand is a published author and composer with GIA Publications, featuring the book, Teaching with Heart: Tools for Addressing Societal Challenges Through Music, and The Jason Max Ferdinand Choral Series (Walton Music). Dr. Ferdinand maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and lecturer domestically and internationally at schools, universities, churches, and choral festivals and conferences.
Yale Camerata Fall Concert: Shout for Joy
North Branford Rotary Fall Fling and Auction
Presents Death of a Gangster
A 1920s Mafia Marriage Live Murder Mystery
Friday, November 15, 2024
6:00 pm
Happy Hour from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm,
Dress like the cat's meow for this mafia wedding! Flapper dresses, zoot suits,
feather boas and headbands, pinstriped suits, and fedoras are all appropriate
Traditional wedding attire is nifty, too, but not required.
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North Branford Rotary Fall Fling Auction & Murder Mystery
Yale Camerata presents its annual Advent concert at Woolsey Hall. Entitled Joyeux Noël, it the event will feature performances of Gloria by Francis Poulenc, as well as works by Gabriel Faure, Reena Esmail, B. E. Boykin, Joel Thompson, and Sofia Soderberg.
Free and open to the public.
View event website for further details.
Yale Camerata is a seventy-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985.
Yale Camerata Advent Concert: Joyeux Noël
Yale Camerata presents its annual Advent concert at Woolsey Hall. Entitled Joyeux Noël, this event will feature performances of Gloria and two motets by Francis Poulenc, as well as works by Gabriel Faure, Reena Esmail, B. E. Boykin, Joel Thompson, and Sofia Soderberg. There will also be audience sing-a-long carols.
Free and open to the public.
View event website for further details.
Yale Camerata is a seventy-voice vocal ensemble whose members are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. Conducted by Dr. Felicia Barber, the ensemble performs a widely varied spectrum of sacred choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time. The Camerata was founded by Marguerite L. Brooks in 1985.
Yale Camerata Advent Concert: Joyeux Noël
A CALL FOR PEACE
Nazaykinskaya | World Premiere
Wieniawski | Violin Concerto No. 2
Kinga Augustyn, Violin
Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 4
The ECSO’s February concert, a call for peace in Eastern Europe, will begin with a world premiere by Polina Nazaykinskaya, a graduate of Moscow’s Tchaikovsky Conservatory College and the Yale School of Music. Next, Polish violinist Kinga Augustyn, who made her Carnegie Hall debut in 2008, will be the soloist for her compatriot Henryk Wieniawski’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 2 in D Minor, which premiered in St. Petersburg in 1862 with Wieniawski as soloist. After intermission, Music Director & Conductor Toshiyuki Shimada will conduct Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s powerful Symphony No. 4 in F Minor. In composing his “Fate Symphony,” Tchaikovsky had Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fate Symphony” in mind (its first-movement fanfare recalls the famous “duh-duh-duh-DUM” from Beethoven’s Fifth). The Tchaikovsky piece was too advanced for some tastes at its U.S. premiere in 1890, a New York Post reviewer wrote: “If Tchaikovsky had called his symphony ‘A Sleigh Ride Through Siberia’ no one would have found this title inappropriate.”
Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra: A Call For Peace
Born in the diverse and vibrant nation of the USA, where every opportunity felt endless on one hand and yet impossible to grasp on the other, Luis Reyes has had “the privilege of living what all immigrant parents dream of for their children, and that is paving the pathway to freedom.”
His journey was uniquely shaped by the fact both of his parents were immigrants. As he was growing up, his understanding of “feeling safe” evolved beyond its dictionary definition — in addition to the challenges and triumphs of his immigrant heritage, he also faced the personal obstacle of hearing loss at an early age. While he learned to deal with this condition, he did not let him define him. Instead, it became a catalyst for personal growth and inner strength.
He transcended the challenges of being a minority, growing up in poverty, and having a hearing disability to become the first in his family to attend college, graduating with a Physical Therapist Assistant degree. He learned to embrace his unique perspective on the world and found new ways to connect with others, drawing on empathy, resilience, and the power of self-preservation to overcome adversity. Luis joined the Peak Physical Therapy team on Chase Ave in Waterbury in 2023.
