NHSO News

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.

New Haven, CT February 6, 2009: The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) is committed to the importance of music education in our children’s lives and proudly presents The 77th Annual Young People’s Concert Series; This Land is Your Land.

The New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) is committed to the importance of music education in our children’s lives and proudly presents The 77^th Annual Young People’s Concert Series; This Land is Your Land. The concert series features music by American composers including Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, John Philip Sousa, and George Gershwin’s masterpiece, An American in Paris, a work that suggests the sounds of Paris street life. The concert series is Wednesday, April 1, 9:30am and 11:30am at Woolsey Hall, New Haven, with repeat performances, April 2, through 7 at Fairfield Warde High School, Fairfield, Parson’s Complex, Milford, Seymour Middle School, Seymour and Hyde Cultural Complex, Woodstock.