Works by six composer-members of Connecticut Composers, Elizabeth Austin, Allen Brings, Juliana Hall, Daniel Morel, Margaret Collins Stoop, and Nancy Tucker will be performed. Included will be two settings of poems by Sara Teasdale along with new compositions for piano and for violin and piano but also solo works written for the guitar and the clarinet that will be played in an unusual and unexpected manner. Featured as well will be a ‘serious’ sonata written for an instrument probably better known to children, namely, the recorder. No charge. Registration strongly suggested.
April is National Poetry Month and we are thrilled to welcome Ira Joe Fisher back to Wilton Library from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 24, to get us ready with a Poetry Reading. Ira was awarded two regional Emmys for television writing. He is the author of Remembering Rew, a poetry chapbook, and the full-length collections Some Holy Weight in the Village Air, Songs From an Earlier Century, and The Creek at the End of the Lawns. Ira has a master of fine arts degree in poetry from New England College. He has taught poetry, communications and broadcast history at New England College; he currently lectures and teaches at the University of Connecticut (Stamford, Waterbury, and Torrington) and Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.
Ira regularly performed in the long-running musical The Fantasticks from 1995 to 2000.
