Tag Archives: Neighborhood Music School

Pitching Camp

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Temperatures are rising, days are getting longer and local parents who haven’t yet registered their children for summer camp might be feeling the heat. …

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Hot Spots

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Last Saturday afternoon, the thermometer hovered in the high 80s, and despite a cooling breeze off the Long Island Sound, the sidewalks of downtown New Haven radiated heat. …

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First Class

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The oft-recited words of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream are fresh and funny as they’re read by…

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Sheet Rock

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Climb a creaky set of stairs to the second floor and enter a small, bookcase-filled space…

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The Sound of Music

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The second movement of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata Pathétique has a famous melody…

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Making a ’List

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It’s that time of year when carolers sing and jingle bells ring and it’s impossible to shop without hearing holiday tunes both great and grating. So we asked five New Haven conductors to help us create a holiday playlist…

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A Flying Start

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Alasdair Neale is the first to acknowledge that some people find classical music—well, stuffy. …

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This Week in New Haven (August 5 – 11)

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The week ahead is a good teacher, whose subjects include horticulture and geek culture plus local wines and local pizza.

Monday, August 5
In concert with Docunight, whose mission is to illuminate Iran through the medium of film, Sterling Memorial …

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Moving Forward

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Sunlight is streaming across the hardwood floor of an activity room at Trinity Episcopal Church on the Branford Green. Laura Richling drags a few tables out of the way. Her dance class…

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Swinging for the Fences

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When Neighborhood Music School’s Premier Jazz Ensemble opened for up-and-coming jazz pianist Christian Sands at the 2016 New Haven Jazz Festival, the group’s tenor saxophonist, Ryan Griffiths, was starstruck. …

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