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STONINGTON — Pianist Jiayan Sun, a musician who has been praised by The New York Times for his “revelatory” performances and by the Toronto Star for his “technically flawless, poetically

The young man in a sweater and Chuck Taylor Converse All Star high tops is seated at one end of a narrow contraption shaped like a coffin in an old Western — although it’s painted a distinctive shade ...

Musician, educator and arts group veteran Dan Brandl is the new executive director at the La Grua Center in Stonington Borough.

The pandemic turned everything upside down in 2020, including some of the things we usually rely on to help us through dark times — like the arts. When it became clear that the novel coronavirus was going to stick around for a while, arts leaders from Westerly to Mystic to Providence and in between began to look anew at the programs they had planned to present in 2020, most of which were canceled when pandemic protocols forced limits on large indoor gatherings. Groups like the Chorus of...