To continue the celebration of the recent ribbon-cutting for The Brubeck Collection at Wilton Library - and celebrate Dave Brubeck's birthday! - please join the library online for an engaging conversation between author and music historian Stephen Crist and musicologist Gil Harel. On Thursday, Dec. 6 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm they will discuss […]
Please join Wilton Library for an encore broadcast of Dr. Gil Harel's presentation on Danbury-born composer Charles Ives. He will discuss Ives as a founder of a distinctly American music idiom. We will follow his presentation with a live Q&A with Harel. Charles Ives may very well be considered one of the most important American […]
Join Wilton Library for the first program of a new four-part series with Dr. Gil Harel on the seminal jazz albums of 1959. The series will run as follows: 3/20/24: […]
Join Wilton Library for the second program of their new four-part series with Dr. Gil Harel on 1959's seminal jazz albums. The series runs as follows: • March 20: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue • April 10: Dave Brubeck's Time Out • May 22: John Coltrane's Giant Steps • June 19: Post-1959 Impact and Aftermath […]
Join Wilton Library for the third program of their new four-part series with Dr. Gil Harel on the seminal jazz albums of 1959.The series will run as follows: 3/20/24: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue 4/10/24: Dave Brubeck's Time Out 5/22/24: John Coltrane's Giant Steps 6/18/24: Jazz Post-1959 Diverging Paths The year 1959 was an exceptionally […]
Join Wilton Library for the final program of their new four-part series with Dr. Gil Harel on the seminal jazz albums of 1959. The series will run as follows: 3/20/24: Miles Davis’ […]
