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Unless otherwise indicated,
all performances are held at
Immanuel Congregational Church
10 Woodland Street
(corner of Farmington Ave.
& Woodland St.)
Hartford, Connecticut 06105
Tel: 860-527-8121 x 33
Donald Funk
Artistic Director
donfunk@woodlandconcertseries.org
Marilyn Holt
Website Design
marilyn@woodlandconcertseries.org
Tickets for this season's concerts
will be available at the door.
For advance tickets, please use
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on the concert's descriptions.
Immanuel Congregational Church
is handicapped accessible.
Plenty of free on- & off-street parking is available close to the church.
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Thanks for a great season!
SUITES BEFORE LUNCH:
THE GREAT AMERICAN PIANO with PAUL BISACCIA, PIANIST
A free 30 minute program every Tuesday in October beginning at 12:05 p.m. Donations are gratefully accepted. Lunch immediately follows each concert at the bargain price of $5. All performances take place at Immanuel Congregational Church.
Save the date for four Tuesdays in October and celebrate Great American piano music and the 15th anniversary of Paul Bisaccia's first television show for PBS.
Four Tuesday noon time concerts will take you on a musical ride of Great American piano music. Composers will include, George Gershwin, John Phillip Sousa, Scott Joplin, Irving Berline, Eubie Blake, Duke Ellington, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Immanuel's own Dudley Buck and more. Hear new unpublished Gershwin as well as favorite standards and surprises from the Mark Twain era.
The series of four concerts will conclude with Rhapsody in Blue. Bisaccia performed Gershwin's masterpiece for a national television audience 15 years ago. Celebrate our rich heritage of American's music at Immanuel and have a delicious lunch after the concert.
Tuesday, October 4
GERSHWIN ON BROADWAY
Tuesday, October 11
MARK TWAIN DAYS
Tuesday, October 18
RAGTIME
Tuesday, October 25
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
YALE CAMERATA
Marguerite Brooks, Conductor
Sunday, November 13 • 4:00 p.m.
$15 General Seating | Students: free
Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale Camerata is a vocal ensemble sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The group's singers are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. The Camerata performs a widely varied spectrum of choral literature, with a specific commitment to recently composed choral music. The Camerata has collaborated with the Yale Glee Club, Yale Philharmonia, the New Haven Chorale, and the symphony orchestras of Hartford, New Haven, and Norwalk. The chamber chorus of the Yale Camerata has performed at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall. They have traveled to Germany to perform the Berlioz Requiem with choruses from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Israel, Great Britain, and the Ukraine. In 2001, the Camerata spent a week in residence at Saint Paul's Cathedral in London, and have been heard on Connecticut Public Radio and on National Public Radio's "Performance Today."
Order Tickets by Mail Only order if choosing General Seating. Free student tickets will be available at the door.
PayPal payments received up to 6pm on Friday, Nov 11th. After that, purchase tickets at the door.
LESSONS & CAROLS
An Advent & Christmas Celebration
Sunday, December 4, 2011 • 4:00 p.m.
Free-will Offering
A beloved tradition here at Immanuel is the annual Service of Lessons and Carols. It will feature the Chancel Choir with Mark Singleton, Director. Readers of the nine lessons are members and friends of the church. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols celebrates the coming and birth of Jesus. The story of the promise of the Messiah, and the birth of Jesus is told in nine Bible readings from the prophetic books and the Gospels, interspersed with the singing of Christmas carols, hymns and choir music. Most famously a Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is the Christmas Even service held in King's College Chapel. The Festival was introduced in 1918 and was first broadcast in 1928. It is now broadcast live to millions of people around the world.
INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP OF COLLEGIATE A CAPPELLA
Saturday, February 11th at 7:30pm
We welcome back the Northeast Regional Quarter Finals of the ICCA. This has become a real audience favorite. Cheer on your favorites as several college a cappella groups -- some from this area -- vie to stay alive in the competition in their quest to be crowned the best at the international finals competition at Lincoln Center.
Tickets available at the door. More information to follow. Stay tuned!
Students: $15
General Admission: $20
CONCORA presents BACH!
Sunday, March 25, 2012 • 4:00 p.m.
$45 Premium Seating | $25 General Seating | $10 Students
For tickets, please call Christine Laird at the CONCORA office at 860.293.0567, or visit their website at www.concora.org
CONCORA, Connecticut's premier professional choir, presents their annual collaboration with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra featuring the Magnificat (BWV 243), Cantata 1 "Wie schön leuchter der Morgenstern!" (BWV 1), and Concerto in D Minor for Harpsichord (BWV 1052) with HSO harpsichordist Margreet Francis.
CONCORA's mission, "to perpetuate and perform with excellence choral music of the highest quality for the broadest possible audience," represents a commitment to the Connecticut community, a commitment to artistic excellence, masterful performances, and educational enrichment -- enhancing the lives of generations. Since its founding in 1974 by its Conductor and Artistic Director, Richard Coffey, CONCORA has held a unique place in the arts community as Connecticut's premier choral group has built an extraordinary reputation for artistic excellence throughout New England. CONCORA is the recipient of the 2003 Governor's Arts Award, in recognition of remarkable artistic achievement and contributions to the arts in Connecticut.
For tickets, please call Christine Laird at the CONCORA office at 860.293.0567, or visit their website at www.concora.org
LUIS DE MOURA CASTRO, PIANO
Beethoven & Latin American Music
Sunday, April 15, 2012 • 4:00 p.m.
$15 General Seating | Students: free
Luiz de Moura Castro is a graduate of the National School of Music, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, the Lorenzo Fernandez Academy of Music, and the Liszt Academy. Moura Castro appeared with the Orchestre de Chambre, Lisbon Radio Orchestra, Filarmonichi di Turino, Bratislav & Janacek orchestras, Yaroslav Symphony, the Dallas, Fort Worth, Hartford, and Syracuse symphonies, and all major Brazilian orchestras. Solo recitals include: Piccolo Scala, Milano Teatro Ghione, Roma Salle Gaveau, Palau de la Musica, Rubinstein Hall, St. Petersburg Academy, Merkin Hall, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Professor de Moura Castro is included in the "World's Who's Who of Musicians," Benjamin Saver's "The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA" and lectured at the World Piano Pedagogy Conferences, 1996-2006 and is a regular adjudicator for the Fulbright Commission.
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