St. John’s Episcopal Church, 679 Farmington Ave, West Hartford, CT
The Beatles: Band of the Sixties
Explore the music of The Beatles in this 60-minute multimedia presentation (part history and part musical analysis) spanning the full 1960’s: beginning with the band’s seminal visits to Hamburg, continuing through Beatlemania, and concluding with Abbey Road. The program will be supplemented with audio clips of music and excerpts from interviews with the band members.
2012 University of Hartford graduate Aaron Krerowicz is the United States of America’s only full-time professional Beatles scholar. He sang with the St. John’s choir from Easter 2011 through June 2015. In the not quite 5 months since his departure from St. John’s, he has presented his Beatles research 51 times in 12 different states, including twice in London and thrice in Liverpool. Aaron’s first Beatles book,”The Beatles & The Avant-Garde”, was published last year; his second, “The Beatles: Band of the Sixties” (based on this presentation), was released as an Amazon Kindle ebook in April; and his third, “From the Shadow of JFK: The Rise of Beatlemania in America”, was published in June. All three books will be available for purchase at the conclusion of the program.
We begin the year with Charlotte Beers Plank, organist, as we celebrate 20 years of a remarkable pipe organ! Click here for details, and see you there.
This past Friday, we completed our fourth season of Sacred Music at the Red Door in grand style, with a tremendous toe-tapping performance by the Hot Cat Jazz Band! It was a great celebration of the past year, where we reached scores of people with the great gift of music.
The Concert Series invests significantly in our youth, the future of music, making possible a twice-monthly theory class and annual choir camp for our Youth Choir.
Concerts are open and accessible to all, with no admission charge.
Our season concludes this Friday with a great night of Dixieland jazz with the Hot Cat Jazz Band! Check out the promo video below, and click here for more info. Hope to see you at the Red Door!
Our choirs are hard at work on the music for next week’s concert, Sunday, March 15 at 4:00pm. Check out the promo video below, and click here for more info.