Hartt Announces Understanding – Celebrating Common Ground Presentation, 5/2

On Thursday, May 2, at 8:00 PM, The Cathedral of Saint Joseph welcomes the Hartt School choruses, the New Haven Chorale, and The Hartt School Wind Ensemble and its director Glen Adsit for Understanding - Celebrating Common Ground, a thought-provoking evening that explores the relationships and common ground among Christians, Jews, and Muslims, through stunning music and an inspirational multimedia presentation.

Conductor Edward Bolkovac, Choirmaster at the Cathedral, leads Yale composition faculty Christopher Theofanidis' powerful work The Here and Now (2009) for large chorus and wind ensemble, based on texts by the Muslim mystic Jal?l ad-D?n Muhammad Balkh?, known in English as Rumi. Maestro Glen Adsit takes the baton for the antiphonal works by Gabrieli and Schütz, and excerpts from Bloch's Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service). The program also features the world premiere of William Bolcom's Solace... (To the memory of the Newtown massacre victims), and includes multimedia by Projects for a New Millennium.

This concert takes place on Thursday, May 2, 8:00 PM, at The Cathedral of St. Joseph, 140 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT. Admission is a suggested donation of $20 at the door. Call 860.249.8431 or visit www.cathedralofsaintjoseph.com for details.

The entire program will be repeated on Sunday, May 5, 4:30 PM, at Woolsey Hall, 500 College Street, New Haven, CT. For details and ticket prices, call 203.432.4158 or visit http://music.yale.edu/concerts/box.html.

The Hartt School is the comprehensive performing arts conservatory of the University of Hartford that offers innovative degree programs in music, dance, and theatre. Founded in 1920, Hartt has been an integral part of the University of Hartford since its charter merged the then Hartt School of Music, the Hartford Art School, and Hillyer College to create the University in 1957. 2010 markEd Hartt's 90th year of providing world class performing arts education to students in Greater-Hartford and around the world. With more than 400 concerts, recitals, plays, master classes, dance performances, and musical theatre productions a year, performance is central to Hartt's curriculum. For more information about The Hartt School, visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.