Children ages 4+ and their families are invited to this presentation by Norwalk Symphony Orchestra in the Brubeck Room at the Wilton Library. Did you know that Amahl and the Night Visitors is an opera? What is it like to sing and act with a full orchestra on the stage? Meet some of the cast, hear […]
The Trustees of Wilton Library invite you to join us online for a very special concert broadcast featuring the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. This concert is being offered completely for free as the Wilton Library's gift of thanks to the town for the holidays. The concert was recorded earlier this summer in the library's Brubeck Room […]
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 […]
Children ages 4 and up with their families are invited to this presentation by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra on Saturday, Mar. 12, from 3 p.m.-4 p.m. Listen to each instrument - what do you hear? An elephant? Sea creatures? Norwalk Symphony musicians will be joined by Norwalk Youth Symphony members as they bring their instruments to […]
Please join Wilton Library for an in-person presentation by Philip Clark, author of the acclaimed biography, Dave Brubeck: A Life in Time. First published in 2020, the centennial of Brubeck's birth, a new expanded edition has just come out in the U.K. with a U.S. release to follow. Clark will discuss the backstory about how […]
In this Wilton Library Zoom session, Jeffrey Engel will discuss the remarkable career of Clara Schumann and play selected excerpts from her compositions. At Clara’s death in May of 1896, an obituary appearing in the Manchester Guardian proclaimed her “the greatest pianist of her sex that the world has ever known.” This was not hyperbole. […]
Children ages 4-and-up and their families are invited to this presentation by the Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. The brass musicians (trumpet, trombone, french horn, and tuba) provide a lively introduction to NSO's upcoming concert with the Brubeck Brothers Quartet. Jazz highlights this program, along with music by Leonard Bernstein from On the Waterfront and the Star […]
Wilton Candlelight Concerts presents a concert on Sunday, April 10, featuring the Kavafian/Tenenbom/Wiley String Trio. Renowned string instrumentalists Ida Kavafian, violin; Steven Tenenbom, viola; and Peter Wiley, cello, will join for a program of the complete Bach Goldberg Variations in an arrangement by Dimitri Sitkovetsky. The April 10 concert will take place at 4 p.m. […]
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 […]
Children ages 4+ and their families are invited to this presentation by Norwalk Symphony Orchestra. Join them for a presentation of percussion. The Percussion section has so many more instruments than drums and cymbals! Come hear some of the more unusual instruments and how they set the rhythm for the music that you hear. Plan […]
