Not for Music Lovers Only

Here’s an idea, out of the blue, maybe? Possibly off your usual range of interests and activities! Still, let's see.

All those thoughts aside, it is a worthwhile idea for a Sunday afternoon family event in several respects: It’s in season, it’s inspiring, it’s musical art that is as impressively powerful as it is inspiring and entertaining and it’s open to the public, free and with no tickets required.

Getting to the point, how about taking the family to a ‘live’ Sunday afternoon concert at 3:00 pm on April 22, 2012. Presented by the Yale Camerata, under the direction of Marguerite L. Brooks, in Woolsey Hall, located at College at Grove, New Haven, CT., there’ll be a live presentation of Handel's historic oratorio, “The Messiah”.

Appropriately performed in the Christmas and Easter seasons, the majestic opus is in three parts, depicting Christ’s Nativity (Part I), the passion, death, resurrection, and ascension (Part II), and the Day of Judgment on earth (Part III).

The coming Yale event is an opportunity for those who may have missed the rich productions of Handel’s Messiah in December 2011 by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, together with the Cathedral of St. Joseph Schola Cantorum in Hartford, or the performances of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Hartford Chorale at the Bushnell Center for Performing Arts in Hartford.

Read more about the details of the April 22nd Messiah concert at Woolsey Hall.

How about a Sunday afternoon treat to some of the world’s finest music!