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‘Louder Than Bombs’ Argues That Wherever Music Exists, War Exists Music, correspondent Ed Vulliamy argues in his memoir, ‘Louder Than Bombs’, evokes the same emotions as war. Louder Than Bombs: A Life With War, Music, and Peace Ed Vulliamy April 2020 If the title of Ed Vulliamy’s most recent book caught your interest, then perhaps you arrived at the text thinking it might have something, anything to do with the perpetually enduring saga of the Smiths. Well, I’m sad to report there a...

Wicked Local Musicians of the Old Post Road will stream an online concert program titled "Forgotten Voices" on Saturday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. The performance will shine a light on outstanding, often overlooked Classical-era composers in chamber works ranging from the duo to the quintet. Dedicated to helping history’s hidden gems to shine, Musicians of the Old Post Road will share Franz Danzi’s Duo in G Major for flute and cello, Maddalena Sirmen’s String Trio in D Major, Chevalier...

Warmth from other Suns. View here until April 29. 7:30 pm ET: SalonEra presents Women in Music. Women’s History Month is marked with instrumental and vocal music by Maddalena Sirmen, Barbara Strozzi, Isabella Leonarda, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, and Clara Schumann. Featured guests include harpsichordist Byron Schenkman, violinist Shelby Yamin, and soprano Michele Kennedy, who share a commitment to researching, performing, and recording music by women composers. View here. 8 pm ET: Ensem...

Verdi’s La Traviata. Conductor: Giacomo Sagripanti, director: Simon Stone. With Pretty Yende, Juan Diego Flórez, Igor Golovatenko, and Margaret Plummer. Register for free and view here. LIVE 2 pm ET: London Symphony Orchestra presents Rattle conducts Stravinsky. Sir Simon Rattle conducts the LSO in Stravinsky’s Octet for Wind Instruments, Symphonies of Wind Instruments (1920), Four Norwegian Moods, Suite No 1, and Suite No 2. View here. 2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London, Spring presents ...

The 30 th Annual Leadership 100 Conference, a virtual event scheduled for February 17-19, 2021, will begin with the Executive Committee, Board of Trustees and General Assembly meetings. One of the highlights of our Conference will include  A TRIBUTE TO GREECE, In Celebration of the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution of 1821 and our Hellenic Orthodox Christian Heritage, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. (EST) on Friday, February 19, 2021, according to Argyris Vassiliou, Leadership 100 Chairman. “Lead...

12 pm ET: Mark Morris Dance Group presents Dido and Aeneas. A screening of the 1995 film directed by Barbara Willis Sweete who recreated the Dido and Aeneas set on a sound stage in Toronto and filmed it without the constraints of a proscenium stage and with Morris in his critically acclaimed role. The screening will be followed by a live Q&A with Morris and Sweete and launches a week of activities including talks with dancers and artistic collaborators. Dance with MMDG classes for all levels ...

2 pm ET: NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester presents Gilbert conducts Prokofiev. Daniil Trifonov joins Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra for Prokofiev’s First Piano Concerto under the leadership of Chief Conductor Alan Gilbert who also leads the orchestra in an account of the composer’s Classical Symphony. View here. 2 pm ET: The Royal Opera House presents Puccini’s Il Trittico. Il Tabarro, set aboard a barge on the Seine, stars Lucio Gallo as Michele, Eva-Maria Westbroek as Giorge...

Litchfield library presents classical concert on Zoom Dec. 24, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Live Zoom Event: An Evening of Classical Music with Stephanie Ruddy, Tyler Gauruder & Sarah Barrett at the Oliver Wolcott Library, Litchfield.Contributed photo LITCHFIELD — “An Evening of Classical Music with Stephanie Ruddy, Tyler Gauruder & Sarah Barrett” on Zoom will be held at 7 p.m. Jan. 14. Their performance will include the following pieces: Partita No.2 for solo Violin in D minor by Johann Seb...

LITCHFIELD — Live virtual events at the Oliver Wolcott Library in January are as follows: Monday Scholars — American Military History: From Colonials to Counterinsurgents, Mondays 1-2:30 p.m.; Jan. 4 through March 29 (no meeting Feb. 15). Monday Scholars combines online learning with live virtual discussion. Participants log in and together, via Zoom, all will watch two video lectures presented by General Wesley K. Clark. Then, via Zoom, OWL’s Karen Pasternak will lead a discussi...