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May 22, 2012
In This Issue
Music Registration 2012-13
Discovery Day
Spring Festival
Guitar & Harp Honors Recital
Dance this summer!
CMEA All-State participants
String House Visits
016 New Music Ensemble
Tune of the Week
Dance Trivia
HCD Events
Events Around Town
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Summer Vocal Institute

From Studio to Stage Summer Dance Intensive

Music Programs Registration for 2012-2013 now available! 

 

Registration Packets for 2012-2013 Hartt Community Division Music Programs are now available. You can download a packet by clicking here.

  

Please note the following change!

The new Early-Bird Registration deadline for music programs is July 1, 2012. Returning students who register on July 1 or earlier may have the $25.00 registration fee waived. All registration forms received after July 1 will have the $25.00 registration fee assessed.

 

The final deadline for music registration is September 4, 2012. All music registration forms received after September 4 will have a $30.00 late fee, plus the $25.00 registration fee assessed.

 

For more information about Registration, click here. 

Registration materials for Dance Programs are coming soon!

 

Reminder for Parents: Discovery Day Festival is on Saturday, June 2

Roberts Theater, Handel Performing Arts Center

 

The Hartt Community Division Dance Department presents a celebration of its youngest artists: Discovery Day Festival on Saturday, June 2. Performances start at 2:00 pm and run throughout the afternoon.

 

Tickets are limited to Discovery and Tiny Tap families. Call the box office at (860)768-4228 to reserve your tickets.

 

For more information click here.

Download the performance flyer by clicking here.

Spring Festival: June 16 & 17

Millard Auditorium, Alfred C. Fuller Center

 

Spring Festival tickets are now on sale!

Join us for performances by students from various Hartt Community Division Dance Programs. Download the poster by clicking here.

 

Spring Showcase

Saturday, June 16, 2:00 pm

General Admission $12.50

Students from Children's Ballet 1, General Dance Program, Adult Program, and the Intensive Program display what they have learned over the course of the past year.

 

An Evening of Elegance

Saturday, June 16, 7:30 pm

Reserved Seating, $20; Children age 12 & younger, $10; Premium Seating, $30

An evening of performances by students in Children's Ballet 2 through Intensive Levels featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons as well as special guest artists.

  

An Afternoon of Elegance

Sunday, June 17, 2:00 pm

Reserved Seating, $20; Children age 12 & younger, $10; Premium Seating, $30

An afternoon of performances by students in Children's Ballet 2 through Intensive Levels featuring Vivaldi's Four Seasons as well as special guest artists.

  

Discounted Spring Festival Passes are available for multiple performances. Contact the box office for more information, or to purchase tickets: (860) 768-4228.

  

Guitar and Harp Honors Recital 
 

Congratulations to all students who performed at the Guitar & Harp Honors Recital on Thursday, May 17. Hannah Dunn (harp) received the Beatrice Sewall Award and Charles Pfeifer (guitar) received the Senior Honors Award.

 

For more information about the Hartt Community Division's Music Honors Program, click here.

 

 

Dance with Hartt This Summer! 

 

Please join us for dance classes this summer, June 27 through August 8 at one of our two convenient locations in Hartford or Simsbury. Classes for all ages, children to adult, will be running and many dance genres offered, including ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop and modern dance.

  

Click here for registration details. 

 

Click here for the Children's Ballet Summer Schedule.

 

Click here for the Teen & Adult Summer Schedule.

 

We are happy to answer any questions at dancedesk@hartford.edu or 860-768-6000.

 

See you this summer!

 

Connecticut Music Educators Association 2012 All-State Participants 

 

Congratulations to all music students who participated in the Connecticut Music Educators Association 2012 All-State Festival!

 

Click here to see all Hartt Community Division students who performed with the Festival Ensembles this year.

String House at Hartt: Sunday, June 3 
 

On Sunday, June 3, The String House of Rochester, NY will be visiting The Hartt School. They will be located in the following rooms in the Fuller Center during these times:

                                               

 Room 410 from 10:00 - 1:00 pm

 Room 343 from   3:00 - 6:00 pm

 

Contact the String House at 1-800-828-3548 to make a request prior to the visit. Go to www.thestringhouse.com for more information. Click here to download the event flyer.

 

 

016 New Music Ensemble Performance: Sunday, May 27, 5:00 pm
Berkman Recital Hall

 

016 New Music Ensemble will perform works by Connecticut composers in a concert presented by Connecticut Composers Inc. The concert features many Community Division faculty and several works by college division composition faculty. 

 

Performers:

Madalyne Cross, viola

Janet Jacobson, violin

Jordan Jacobson, trombone

Laura Krentzman, viola

Han-Wei Lu, cello

Anastasia Seifetdinova, piano 

Joseph Van Hassel, percussion

Sarah Washburn, violin

 

Works to include:

B-A-C-Homage, Elizabeth Austin

String Quartet, Stephen Gryc

Memos to Mr. Palomar, Ken Steen

Linescape for Violin, Viola, and Cello, Allen Brings 

Lullaby for Imogen, David Macbride

Fragments and Memories, Ryan Jesperson

Songs Without Words, Larry Allen Smith

 

Tune of the Week
 
Can you name the piece (and its composer) below?
 
tune 5.22.12
 
Email your answer to harttcomm@hartford.edu.
Various prizes are awarded weekly for correct answers.
 
 Answer to last week's tune: Theme from The Legend of Zelda
Dance Trivia
  

Where does Flower Festival come from?

 

(a) Traditional May Day celebrations in England

 

(b) Act 2 of Cinderella by Ashton

 

(c) Title of a one-act ballet by Bournonville

 

  

Email your answer to dancedesk@hartford.edu.

Various prizes are awarded weekly for correct answers.

 

Answer to last week's trivia: (b) Fondu is the term used to describe a lowering of the body made by bending the knee of the supporting leg

Hartt Community Division Events
    

Adult Chamber Music Recital

Tuesday, May 22, 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Zhong Chen Studio Recital

Thursday, May 24, 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Pi-Hsun Shih Studio Recitals

Saturday, May 26, 2:00 pm and 5:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Louise Fauteux Studio Recital

Sunday, May 27, 2:00 pm, Berkman Auditorium

 

All-School Recitals

Saturday, May 26, 3:30 pm and 5:00 pm, Bliss Music Room

 

Chamber Music Recital

Tuesday, May 29, 8:00pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Dance Boys and Girls Club Performance

Friday, June 1, 7:00 pm, Roberts Theater (Handel Performing Arts Center)

 

Horn Studio Spring Recital

Friday, June 1, 7:00 pm, Bliss Music Room

 

Andrew King Studio Recital

Friday, June 1, 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Discovery Day Festival

Saturday, June 2, 2:00 pm, Roberts Theater (Handel Performing Arts Center)

 

Student Recital: Elizabeth Brown, Lyric Coloratura-Soprano

Saturday, June 2, 2:00 pm, United Methodist Church (Newington, CT)

 

Maggie Francis Studio Recital

Saturday, June 2, 2:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Suzuki String Recitals

Saturday, June 2, 3:30 pm and 5:00 pm, Bliss Music Room

 

Chamber Music Recitals

Saturday, June 2, 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Community Division Piano Ensemble Concert

Sunday, June 3, 3:30 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Chamber Music Recitals

Sunday, June 3, 5:30 pm and 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Winds, Brass, and Percussion Honors Recitals

Monday, June 4, 8:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

Junior and Senior Vocal Honors Recital

Saturday, June 9, 2:00 pm, Berkman Recital Hall

 

 

Events Around Town

 

The Hartford Stage: The Tempest, by William Shakespeare

Directed by Darko Tresnjak

Shows from May 22 through June 10, Hartford Stage (Hartford, CT)

 

Hartford Symphony Orchestra: Carmina Burana

Thursday, May 31, 7:30 pm

Friday, June 1, 8:00 pm
Saturday, June 2, 8:00 pm
Sunday, June 3, 3:00 pm

Belding Theater, The Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts

 

The West Hartford Symphony Orchestra: Free Outdoor Concert

Friday, June 1, 8:30 pm at Kingswood Oxford School (West Hartford, CT)

 

Elizabeth "Libby" Warner-Paranov Memorial

Sunday, June 3, 2:00 pm, Millard Auditorium 

 

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Phone: 860-768-6000

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Phone: 860-651-3570