NHSO News

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra will participate in Orchestras Feeding America, the first national food drive by America’s symphony orchestras. The NHSO’s musicians, staff members and volunteers will collect non-perishable food at its Young People’s Concert on April 1 between 9:00am and noon in the rotunda of Woolsey Hall. Over 2,600 school children are expected to attend a concert of American music as part of the orchestra’s educational programs.  The food collected will be donated to the Connecticut Food Bank.  For information about the types of food that can be accepted go to www.CTfoodbank.org

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) is proud to announce The 2009 CT Youth Orchestra Festival, Saturday, March 21, from 3pm to 5:30pm and Sunday, March 22, from 11am to 5:30pm at ACES Educational Center for the Arts, New Haven. The Festival provides a rare opportunity for youth orchestras from around Connecticut to gather, perform for each other, learn from special guest artists, and work with young composer Jay Greenberg.    

New Haven, CT, March 5, 2009: Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton for American Perspectives, Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30pm, Woolsey Hall, New Haven. Honoring some America’s greatest composers of the 20th century, the program includes;  Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, Charles Ives’ Variations on America, George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue featuring NHSO Pianist, William Braun, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 featuring soprano Samantha Lane Talmadge, and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Music Director William Boughton for American Perspectives, Thursday, March 26, 2009, 7:30pm, Woolsey Hall, New Haven. Honoring some America’s greatest composers of the 20^th century, the program includes;  Aaron Copland’s Rodeo, Charles Ives’ Variations on America, George Gershwin’s An American in Paris, Rhapsody in Blue featuring NHSO Pianist, William Braun, Samuel Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915 featuring soprano Samantha Lane Talmadge, and Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story.

Celebrate one of music’s most beloved icons, Ol’ Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, when Associate Conductor Gerald Steichen and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra POPS! presents Simply Sinatra, Friday, March 6, 7:30pm at the Shubert Theater, with a repeat performance, Sunday, March 8, 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School.

The Education committee of the NHSO is pleased to announce this year’s winner for the Excellence in Music Teaching Award, Daniel Cross, band director at Betsy Ross Arts Magnet School in New Haven.