The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
SINGING WITH THE SYMPHONY
Torrington High School chamber choir on lineup to perform with Nutmeg
The Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra has announced its upcoming four concert series. The concerts will feature student singers and musicians, including Torrington High School’s chamber choir in May.
The chamber music concert, set for 3 p.m. Nov. 17 at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Bristol, provides a rare opportunity to hear music by the French master Georges Migot. The concert will include his Quartet for Flute, Violin, Clarinet and Harp, duets for flute and violin, pieces for woodwind quartet and quintet, and Sonata for Flute and Piano with Tracy Norkun, flute, and Bridget De Moura Castro, piano.
The orchestra’s principal wind players will be performing a concert of music for double woodwind and brass quintets at Trinity Church in Torrington on Feb. 9 at 3 p.m.
The third concert in the series features the Bristol Eastern High School Madrigal Singers, with Michael Coderre as director, at 7:30 p.m. March 21. At Bristol Eastern High school, the orchestra and madrigal singers will present Music of the Bach Family with a collaborative performance of J. S. Bach’s Cantata #191. Lizabeth Miller, soprano, and Terrence Fay, tenor, will be soloists in the cantata. Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra violinists Cynthia Knotts and Dongbin Shin will be
performing J. S. Bach’s double violin concerto.
At Lewis Mills High School in Burlington on May 9 at 7:30 p.m., the orchestra will present Musical Flowering. The Torrington High school Chamber Choir, with Connor Sullivan, director, and the Bristol Eastern High School Madrigal Singers will combine with the orchestra in a performance of Connecticut composer Thomas Duffy’s Overture 1776.
Duffy’s high energy, patriotic piece is modeled on Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, using American and English themes to replace Tchaikovsky’s Russian and French melodies. Lillian Yim, first prize winner of the 2019 Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra Young Artists Competition, will perform Elgar’s cello concerto. Also on the program, Dvorak’s rich and melodious Symphony #8.
Tickets, are $20 for adults and $10 for student, and are available at www.nutmegsymphony.org or by mailing a check to Nutmeg Symphony Orchestra, P. O.