OLD LYME—Musical Masterworks continues its Community Engagement Program for a third year with Decoda, Musical Masterworks’ Ensemble-in-Residence. Decoda will be in residence for one week in November at a variety of nonprofits and schools on the shoreline, including Waterford Country School, Fitch High School and Vista, a nonprofit creating community for neurologically diverse adults.
Last year Musical Masterworks piloted a five-day creative songwriting workshop with inmates of Cheshire Correctional Institution (CCI). This workshop proved to be life-changing not only for the inmates but for all who participated. In four short days, the inmates created six new songs about their life at CCI. The process fostered trust, community, and a sense of citizenship in an environment where that rarely happens. Decoda will be back to repeat that residency for other inmates in January 2025.
In addition to the residency programs, Decoda will be performing at two free community performances in Old Lyme, including a family concert at Phoebe Griffin Noyes Library in Old Lyme on Saturday, Nov.23, at 2:30 pm. There will be a formal concert on Sunday, Nov. 24, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at Saint Ann’s Church in Old Lyme followed by a post-concert reception.
Musical Masterworks’ main concert series continues Dec. 7, and 8, at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme. Artistic Director Tessa Lark will join a trio of longtime Masterworks favorites. Pianist Gilles Vonsattel and violinist/violist Arnaud Sussman will be joined by Edward Arron, cellist and previous Artistic Director of Musical Masterworks, whom Charles Wadsworth brought into the ‘Masterworks family’ years ago.
Musical Masterworks 34th season runs from October 2024 through April 2025 at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme at 4 Lyme Street.
To purchase mini-subscriptions ($115 each), individual tickets ($45 each), or student tickets ($5 each), visit Musical Masterworks at www.musicalmasterworks.org or email [email protected].
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