August 13th, 2021
6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Mystic Seaport Museum Village Green
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra
Established in 1997, the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra is Connecticut’s premier professional chamber orchestra, based in the Greater New Britain area, and dedicated to presenting both traditional and contemporary works to the public. As artists, the Virtuosi strive to be cultural leaders and teachers and to inspire our audiences to recognize the beauty and quality of classical music in any form.
Mendelssohn Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 13
Adrian Sylveen – Violin
Brunilda Myftaraj – Violin
Sandro Ladu – Viola
Andrea Mills – Cello
Chinese Ladies Dance Group
All our performers come from the SCCS and CT Chinese dance teams. Today, we bring you some Chinese classical dances, Folk dances, and Tibetan dances. We hope through our dance performances that audience members can get a taste of traditional Chinese culture.
Red Sorghum
I Have A Dream
Fairy of Magpie and Bridge
Ma Ni Love Song
The Mystic Paper Beasts
The Mystic Paper Beasts have been telling original and traditional tales with mask and movement in this area, and around the world, since 1976. Today, Marya Ursin, co director for the Beasts, will be telling a Miwok story about How the Wolf Sang the World into Being.
Wolf and Coyote
Klezmenschen
The musicians of Klezmenschen present a toe-tapping sample of Klezmer music. What is Klezmer music? Remember the wedding dances in Fiddler on the Roof? The clarinet solos of Benny Goodman? It’s a joyful music that makes you want to take hands in a circle and dance.
“Jewish Jazz”
Arrangements of Traditional Melodies
Songs from the Yiddish Theater
Israeli Dance Tunes
We Don’t Own a Dog Dance, curated by David Dorfman
David Dorfman Dance (company-in-residence at Connecticut College) has created movement that seeks to de-stigmatize the notion of accessibility and interaction in post-modern dance by embracing audiences with visceral, meaningful dance, music and text. In advocating his mission “to get the whole world dancing,” Dorfman’s work has enjoyed broad and diverse audiences nationally and internationally.
“A Little Party” by Fergie ft. Q-Tip
choreographed by Lillian Cook
Performed by students from The Visual and Performing Arts Magnet Pathway School
“Truce with Self (attempt two)”
an idea from “Truce Song,”
David Dorfman Dance’s latest evening-in-progress
Original Music by Sam Crawford, Liz De Lise, and David Dorfman.
Created and performed by David Dorfman Dance 2 Plus:
Campbell Coughlin
Journee Hardaway
Lauren Horn
Elisa Kennedy
Molly McGovern
Mara Senecal-Albrecht
with David Dorfman and Lisa Race
Arthur Migliazza
Arthur Migliazza is a virtuoso pianist who grew up playing Boogie Woogie and Blues piano, learning directly from several contemporary masters in the style. Watch the story of Boogie Boogie piano come to life with comical and insightful anecdotes about some of the key players in its history, as well as some truly unbelievable piano playing by one of the style’s few living masters!
The Ballad of Captain Kidd
Since 2014, The Imbible shows have combined music and comedy with history and science to take audiences on journeys through time and around the world! Now in their sixth year as some of the longest-running Off-Broadway shows in history, The Imbible musical comedies consistently receive rave reviews from both critics and guests alike.
Produced by Broadway Theatre Studio
Song: Traditional, c. 1701
Poem by Anthony Caporale
Directed by Nicole Migliazza
Arranged by Joshua Ehrlich
Megan Callahan – Captain Kidd
Nicholas Barakos – Bass
Matthew Boyd – Tenor
Devon Meddock – Soprano
