PLEASE SUPPORT WFM in their 2024 GIVE LOCAL campaign to raise $10,000.00

https://www.givelocalccf.org/organizations/washington-friends-of-music-fdba292a-8ca3-4909-bd2e-9d54eca6f92a

If you went in Jan to Carnegie Hall for the Dvořák’s Requiem, Op. 89, you could have seen some familiar faces from WFM's New Year's Day Concert ;-)

https://www.facebook.com/wendy.sutter.96/videos/387460223808168/

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)

played masterly by Nicolas Danielson at the WFM 2024 New Year's Day concert. He performed the complete Four Seasons by Astor Piazzolla on Sept. 8, 2023, the final concert of the WFM Summer Concert Festival.

Here is a link to the live recording:

Astor Piazzolla - Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas (The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires)

Did you recognize any parts of Vivaldi's Four Seasons?

Enjoy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2JOodqilsU

Nick explains it all: the 'strange' Tango violin sound effects.

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, Telemann, and Scarlatti. Please see this website for further information on the program, musicians, and tickets.

Tickets can be purchased - based on availability - online, as well as at the Hickory Stick Bookshop in Washington and County Wine and Spirits in New Preston (cash or check only). Admission includes the concert and the party - $45 in advance - or $50 at the door (cash or check only). Seating is limited. Children and students are admitted free of charge.

*) 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.