|
The Claflin Hill Music Performance Foundation, Inc.
54 Claflin Street
Milford, MA 01757
PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Contact: Paul Surapine, Executive Director
The Claflin Hill Music Performance Foundation, Inc.
TEL/FAX: 508-478-5924
Milford, MA
In this Press Release:
- Memorial Hall Chamber Series
- Adventures in Listening
- Claflin Hill Symphony "Music of the Land of the Midnight Sun"
- New this year - Claflin Hill's Music Appreciation Class at Milford Adult
Ed
- Claflin Hill Launches Into the New Year With January Concerts
The Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra jumps into the new year with three great
concerts in January, opening both the Memorial Hall Chamber Series on Saturday,
January 14, 2006 and Adventures in Listening - Claflin Hill's "family and
childrens" educational series on Sunday, January 15. The Claflin Hill Symphony
Orchestra continues its 2005-06 season on Saturday, January 28, 2006 with "Music
from the Land of the Midnight Sun."
Memorial Hall Chamber "Signature" Series . . .
The Memorial Hall Chamber Series gets underway this season on Saturday evening,
January 14th, at 7:30 PM at Milford's Memorial Hall, at the corner of School and
Spruce Street in Downtown Milford. Tickets are $15.00 General Admission, $12.00
Student & Senior. Tickets may be purchased by calling Claflin Hill at
508-478-5924 or visiting the Claflin Hill website, www.claflinhill.org and
downloading a ticket order form.
This season, the Chamber Series is entitled the "Signature Series," and features
solo and chamber music performances of some of the "stars" of the Claflin Hill
Symphony Orchestra. The opening concert presents the CHSO's Principal Flautist,
Phyllis Aronson, joined by CH Director Paul Surapine on Clarinet, Principal
Oboist Kyoko Hida and Principal Bassoonist Patricia Yee. Pianist Phillip
Martorella will accompany Ms. Aronson throughout the program, which features
music of Vivaldi, Reinecke, Debussy, and Rameau. The program also includes Paul
Schoenfield's exciting and jazzy "Four Souvenirs," and the world premiere of a
new work written especially for Aronson and this concert by Daniel Gil, "Morning
the Past."
Phyllis Aronson Bio . . .
Phyllis Aronson began her flute studies with her father, who is a former member
of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra. She received a Bachelor of Music in
Flute degree, magna cum laude, from Hartt College of Music, and a Master of
Music in Flute degree from Northwestern University. Her teachers have included
the late John Wummer of the New York Philharmonic and the late James
Pappoutsakis of the Boston Symphony, as well as Walfrid Kujala of the Chicago
Symphony.
While still an undergraduate, Ms. Aronson was invited to join the Hartford
Symphony and the Connecticut Opera Orchestras. She became the leader of the
Hartford Symphony Woodwind Quintet. Other orchestral positions have included the
Springfield (Massachusetts) Symphony, Hartford Chamber Orchestra, Jerusalem
Symphony Orchestra, and the Israel Philharmonic with whom she toured Mexico,
Japan, Canada and the United States under conductors Leonard Bernstein and Zubin
Mehta, and participated in recordings on the Deutsche Grammophon Label.
A gifted pedagogue, Phyllis has held positions at the Hartford Conservatory of
Music, Westfield State College, Brown University, UMASS-Dartmouth, and Western
New England College. In addition to teaching flute to all ages and levels, she
has taught music appreciation to people as diverse as a class of police
officers.
Ms. Aronson currently is Principal Flutist with the Claflin Hill Symphony
Orchestra and chamber players. Other recent performances include the Rhode
Island Philharmonic and a premiere solo performance featured on National Public
Radio. She is on the faculty of the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School where
she teaches flute, chamber music, and where she leads an educational outreach
program.
Adventures in Listening . . .
Claflin Hill's family and children's educational concert series, "Adventures in
Listening" kicks off on Sunday, January 15, 2006 at 3 PM in the Milford Memorial
Hall, at the corner of School and Spruce Street in Downtown Milford. Tickets are
$3 each, with a family cap of $10 for the whole family, and may be purchased at
the door.
The opening concert of this season of Adventures in Listening is sponsored by
Hannaford Supermarkets, one of Claflin Hill's newest Business Partners, and
features The Stephen Chaplin Quartet in a program entitled, "Jazz - The Next
Generation."
The Stephen Chaplin Quartet is led by Hopedale resident and Milford High School
music protégée Stephen Chaplin on piano and his brother Gregory on bass. The
young musicians already boast an extensive resume of professional performances
and appearances at numerous jazz clubs throughout Massachusetts and Rhode
Island, and perform a regular Sunday night jazz appearance at the Caffe Sorrento
in Milford.
For this Adventures in Listening concert, they have created a new program
designed especially for young listeners, helping them to understand and
appreciate jazz music and also inspiring them to enter into the study of music.
"The focus of "Adventures in Listening" has always been about presenting real
music to young people in a "listener-friendly" environment," said Paul Surapine,
CH Director. "We provide coloring pages and invite them to sit or lay on the
floor up front, close to the performers. This season, we want to present
Adventures in an even more inviting format - presenting young musicians
performing for young listeners - and demonstrating to them that they too, could
be up there performing one day. The Chaplin Quartet has grown into a phenomenal
jazz ensemble - and it is amazing to see such young musicians performing and
sounding like seasoned jazzers."
Claflin Hill Symphony Orchestra "Music from the Land of the Midnight Sun" . . .
Guest Conductor Thomas Hojnacki returns to the Claflin Hill podium on Saturday,
January 28, 7:30 PM in the Milford Town Hall Grand Ballroom, 52 Main Street,
Downtown Milford in a concert perfect for a winter's evening -- "Music from the
Land of the Midnight Sun". The CHSO will perform music of two of Scandinavia's
greatest composers, evocative of blue fjords, icy, majestic glaciers with sun
glinting off them - colorful music to warm the soul in the midst of winter.
This concert is made possible by Claflin Hill's newest Luminary Level ($10,000)
Business Partner, The Benjamin Franklin Bank and The Hopedale Foundation.
The concert program will include Edvard Grieg's familiar and popular Peer Gynt
Suite and Finnish composer Jean Sibelius's Symphony #2
Reserved tickets are $30, General admission Non reserved are$25, Student/ senior
$20. Tickets may be purchased by calling Claflin Hill at 508-478-5924 or
visiting the Claflin Hill website, www.claflinhill.org and downloading a ticket
order form.
"Adventures in Listening - The Class" . . . . .
In collaboration with The Milford Community School Use Adult Education Program,
Claflin Hill will be presenting a new adult "music appreciation" class,
beginning on February 1, 2006.
Designed to mirror the "conversational" ambiance of Claflin Hill concerts and
the sharing of music and background about the composers and music that is so
much a part of every Claflin Hill concert, this class will explore and study the
art of listening to music from the classical to the contemporary, and highlight
music to be performed at upcoming Claflin Hill Symphony concerts.
Taught by Paul Surapine, Claflin Hill's Executive and Artistic Director,
"Adventures In Listening, The Class" will run for 8 weeks and begins on
Wednesday, February 1st, from 7PM - 9 PM. Registration begins Wednesday night,
January 18. Call 508-478-1119 for more information or to register.
For more information about Claflin Hill, call 508-478-5924 or visit the Claflin
Hill website at www.claflinhill.org.
|
