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Upcoming Concerts
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2009/10 Season
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Sunday, February 21, 2010 at 2:30 p.m
Special Performance!
The Danbury Brass Band
Salutes the New Britain Symphony Orchestra
The Danbury Brass Band
will perform a variety of works to benefit the New Britain Symphony Orchestra including works by Bird, Shostakovich, and Danbury native, Charles Ives.
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Saturday, March 27, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.
Puccini's beloved La Bohème
In concert, with guest conductor Willie Anthony Waters – keeping-opera-alive-in-Connecticut. Maestro Willie Anthony Waters, former Music Director of the Connecticut Opera has assembled a stellar cast of brilliant young singers...
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Welcome
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A Message from Maurice Peress, our new Music Director:
It is exciting and sobering to accept my new responsibility as Music Director of the venerable New Britain Symphony Orchestra. A fascinating part of my time here as I finished out the season planned by my good friend Jesse Levine, was learning about New Britain and its excellent orchestra.
I began asking myself, is there some connection to be made between the city's precision tool-making history and music? Both require dedication and highly skilled craftsmanship; and yes, there is an art to designing the perfect tool and composing the perfect phrase. The metaphor really took hold when I discovered the website of Peter Shug, master violinmaker and hand-tool collector. Mr. Shug writes with loving care about the uniqueness of his fourteen-inch Stanley Bailey-style plane. "When it comes to hand planning the critical joint between the two halves that make up the belly of a violin, it rules!" It is not a stretch to say that I will be designing and directing concerts––making live music––for a community and with an orchestra who share pride in craftsmanship and an abiding commitment to excellence.
Which brings me to the question "Wherefore live music in a cyber world?" Why fresh food rather than canned? Why gather for prayer? Why travel hundreds of miles to hold your grandchild? Why pick grapes in the wild, stand before the wonders of a sunset? Only before a live audience are the musicians in the New Britain Orchestra, myself included, most inspired; only before a live audience can our music attain transcendent heights.
We invite all music lovers to join us, to become a part of that human equation between a live audience, a grand orchestra, and a great work of art, "…that sort of paradise-on-earth feeling of total absorption when time just falls away." [Ian McEwen, novelist in a n interview with the NYT 3/31/05]
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Calendar
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February 21, 2010 — Danbury Brass Band at 2:30 p.m. at Welte Hall
March 21, 2010 — Special Event
Meet Willie Anthony Waters, guest Maestro for the New Britain Symphony Orchestra's March 27 concert performance of Puccini's La Bohème with soprano, Jolie Rocke Brown
March 27, 2010 — Concert
Puccini's beloved La Bohème with guest conductor Willie Anthony Waters, 7:30 p.m.
April 6, 2010
NBSO Sprouts and Saplings Recital on Sunday, April 11and Sunday, April 24 at 2:30 at Trinity-on-Main
April 11, 2010
Bus Trip to the Metropolitan Opera Die Zauberflote
April 17, 2010 — Concert
Dvořák American Legacy Concert 7:30 p.m.
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News
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December 11, 2009
A Polish Messiah backed by the New Britain Symphony. Read article.
October 14, 2009
The New Britain Symphony visits Russian Romantics in their 2009-2010 season opener. Read article.
May 17, 2009
The New Britain Symphony’s annual Young People’s Concert teaches local youth to hear and love music. Read article.
May 17, 2009
The New Britain Symphony Orchestra celebrates its 60th Anniversary. But Maurice Peress, the Symphony’s new Music Director, is focusing on the future rather than the past. Read article.
April 12, 2009
A new Music Director takes the helm at the New Britain Symphony to shape music and the orchestra. Read article.
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