New Haven, CT, November 4, 2010: Join the New Haven Symphony Orchestra (NHSO) for the second installment of SymphonyCity: The Nature of Art, Monday, November 29, 5:30pm at The Study at Yale. This event is free and open to the public.

The NHSO discusses words and music at its next SymphonyCity event. SymphonyCity is a cultural happy hour that feeds the soul and the palette. Share drinks and hors d’oeuvres with national book award finalist and five-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Margret Gibson. Ms. Gibson will be reading poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins as well as her own poems about the natural world. The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins were the inspiration for and the libretto to the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Music Alive Composer-in-Residence Augusta Read Thomas’s Daylight Divine.

Daylight Divine a work for orchestra, soprano and children’s choir will be performed on Thursday, December 2, 7:30pm at Woolsey Hall, New Haven and Sunday, December 5, 3:00pm at Shelton Intermediate School. For tickets and additional information visit www.newhavensymphony.org.

Reservations for SymphonyCity are recommended. Contact Aric Isaacs at aisaacs@newhavensymphony.org or (203) 865-0831, ext. 10