Tuesday July 6:
The EYE-ditor has already hipped you to the
Cary Grant Film Series at Wesleyan's Center for Film Studies (see
here) which open on this evening with "
To Catch a Thief" (Alfred Hitchcock and Grace Kelly - need I say more.)
But, there's other stuff to be seen and heard.
Earlier in the day, you can venture out to the
CFA Hall at 12:10 p.m. where Wesleyan Assistant Professor of Art
Julia Randall will deliver a talk titled "
Drawing Obsessions." Best known for her drawings (that's her "
Decoy # 5" on the left and you can check out a collection of her fascinating "
Tongue Drawings" by clicking
here), Ms. Randall's work has been displayed at the Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, in Sydney, Australia and at Skidmore College. The event is free and open to the public.
The Summer Sounds Series on the South Green/Union Park, Main Street, continues at 7 p.m. with
Five In Time. The ensemble specializes in woodwind music. The event is free and open to all. Bring your beach chairs and legal libations. In the case of rain, the show moves indoors to South Church. This concert series is sponsored by the Middletown Commission on the Arts.
T
he Connecticut Songwriters Association holds its monthly meeting at 7:15 p.m. in
Room B2B3, South College on the Wesleyan campus. This month, the CSA welcomes
Vicki Blankenship, the President of Indiegrrl, one of the largest support organizations for "Indie" artists. Though the organization is geared towards working with women, they welcome all interested parties. For more information about this event and the CSA, go to
www.ctsongs.com.
Wednesday July 7:
The Wadsworth Mansion at the Long Hill Estate begins its annual July Concert Series on this day with the sweet and soulful sounds of
Souled Out. The Hartford-area based band appeared several years ago and knocked out the crowd with its fine vocals and great musicianship. The band specializes in the rhythm 'n' blues music of the 60s and 70s, songs that came from Detroit (Motown), Philadelphia (the great music created by the team of Gamble & Huff), Memphis/Muscle Shoals (Atlantic Records plus others) and much more. The grounds open at 5:30 p.m. and the concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. The event is free and you can find free parking at the Mansion, at the Wilbert Snow School, 299 Wadsworth Street, and at Mercy High School, 1740 Randolph Road. For more information, go to
www.wadsworthmansion.com. Subsequent concerts include
Ed Fast & Conga-Bop (July 14), the
Michael Cleary Band (July 21) and the
United States Coast Guard Band (July 28).
Thursday July 8:
To paraphrase Neil Diamond, "Pack up the babies and grab the old ladies/Everyone's going to "As You Like It." The annual ARTFARM Shakespeare production in the Grove at Middlesex Community College, Training Hill Road, runs from July 8 - 18. "
As You Like It" is a delightful "pastoral" comedy, another one of the Bard's comedy of errors and mistaken identities. The plot summary, courtesy of
www.globe-theatreuk.org, reads as such:
"Rosalind, the daughter of a banished duke falls in love with Orlando the disinherited son of one of the duke's friends. When she is banished from the court by her usurping uncle, Duke Frederick, Rosalind takes on the appearance of a boy calling herself Ganymede. She travels with her cousin Celia and the jester Touchstone to the Forest of Arden, where her father and his friends live in exile. Themes about life and love, including aging, the natural world, and death are included in the play. New friends are made and families are reunited. By the end of the play Ganymede, once again Rosalind, marries Orlando. Orlando and Rosalind, Oliver and Celia, Silvius and Phebe, and Touchstone and Audrey all are married in the final scene. Oliver becomes a gentler, kinder young man so the Duke changes his ways and turns to religion and so that the exiled Duke, father of Rosalind, can rule once again." Got that - well, even if you don't, it's a fun play and, having performed with the troupe last year, I know how much hard work and sweat goes into the production of these shows.
presents the
Joel Frahm Quartet in concert at 8 p.m. in the
CFA Theater. Frahm, who plays both tenor and soprano saxophones, spent his teenage years attending Hall High School in West Hartford (moving from Wisconsin when his Dad got a job at The Hartford Courant) where he played with the award-winning jazz band. He's had a busy career since graduating from the Manhattan School of Music, working with vocalist Jane Monheit, pianist Brad Mehldau, drummer Matt Wilson's Quartet, bassist Ben Allison, vocalist/pianist Dena DeRose and a slew of others. He's issued CDs as a leader on Palmetto Records and, more recently, the Anzic label. Frahm has also become a "first-call" session player, appearing on dozens of CDs. Just in the past few months, he's appeared on new releases by vocalists Dana Lauren, Linda Ciofalo and Beat Kaestli, the Ernesto Cervini Quartet, the Roland Vasquez Big Band, and percussionist Samuel Torres.
For his Wesleyan gig, he's premiering a new group, this one featuring the fine pianist
Orrin Evans, drummer
Mark Ferber and bassist
Johannes Weidenmuller (subbing for Omer Avital.) For ticket information, go to
www.wesleyan.edu/cfa or call the Box Office at 860-685-3355.
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