“All good things must end,” writes Donna Larcen in Thursday’s (6/2) Hartford Courant (Connecticut). “Edward Cumming conducts his final concert Saturday as music director of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. Cumming’s last program begins with his pre-concert talk at 6:30 p.m., previewing the program and summing up his nine seasons with the orchestra. He takes the stage at 8 p.m. at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts, 166 Capitol Ave. in Hartford. And he’ll have company, more than 400 of his fellow musicians. Featured are the Hartford Chorale and Concora, both directed by Richard Coffey, and the Connecticut Children’s Chorus, directed by Stuart Younse. Cumming will greet audience members after the concert. The program includes soloists mezzo-soprano Jessica Winn and tenor Steven Tharp and the sounds of Bushnell’s original Hartford-made Austin Organ performing Berlioz’s Te Deum, the American premiere of Stephen Montague’s Requiem: The Trumpets Sounded Calling Them to the Other Side with percussion students from Farmington High School, Glastonbury High School, the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, Middletown High School and The Hartt School Community Division.”
Posted June 3, 2011
