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WFM 2024 SUMMER CONCERTS FESTIVAL
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Thank you Litchfield magazine for this beautiful montage of our 2024 opening concert!
Encore at the 2024 New Year's Day Concert
The encore was the WINTER part of Astor Piazzolla's Tango-inspired interpretation of Vivaldi's 4 Seasons:
Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)
Press release 2024 NYD Concert
Come celebrate the New Year with beautiful music and a party - on Jan. 1st at 4pm at the Frederick Gunn School Arts Center, 22 Kirby Road, Washington, CT *)
The 2024 Washington Friends of Music New Year’s Day Concert will feature twelve extraordinary musicians, including -
- Artistic Director Wendy Sutter, performs with the New York Philharmonic and is heralded as “one of the great leading cellists of the classical stage”
- Nicolas Danielson, violin, Grammy-award recipient, and Assistant Concertmaster of the New York City Ballet
- Daniel Khalikov and Xiao-Dong Wang, violin, of New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
- Robert Rinehart, viola, of the New York Philharmonic
- Wayne Du Maine, trumpet, performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, and other renowned venues in New York, on Broadway, and with the legendary musician, Prince.
- Paolo Bordignon, harpsichordist of the New York Philharmonic and organist and choirmaster of the St. Bartholomew’s Church
The festive program will feature Handel, Vivaldi, Telem
*) DIRECTIONS to 22 Kirby Road - we suggest carpooling, for easier parking.
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https://www.FrederickGunn.org/Campus-map-updated
DIRECTIONS to 22 Kirby Road - we suggest carpooling, for easier parking.
In Washington, from Rt. 47 (Green Hill Road) turn onto Kirby Road. Pass the First Congregational Church and the Post Office. Keep going until you see the Frederick Gunn School on your left, where there will be signs and guards directing you. On the school grounds, there are only a few designated all-accessible parking spots. There is parking on the street. Be early and be prepared to walk a few steps to the Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center. Doors open at 3:30pm.
see location # 34:
Recording of SUMMER Concert # 4 "VIVALDI and PIAZZOLLA"
VIVALDI
The Four Seasons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mP7KHC3x1WE&t=64s