Welcome to the Nineteeth Season!
Something alive was spotted just the other day in 06413—guess what—a live concert! Definitely an endangered species for this little town of Clinton (pop. c. 14,000) nestled on Connecticut’s shoreline mid-point between New York and Boston. We’re not completely sure of this, but we think the adjective ‘endangered’ applies ubiquitously around these United States to this kind of concert which consists of Classical music. Yes, just to utter the moniker ‘Classical music’ can set a couple of generations on a stampede to the nearest exit door. Let’s face it, it’s been a virtual tsunami of commercial (we’ll call it ‘Popular’) music that has engulfed the public and has made them passively accept what inundates them as the whole enchilada. We are here to tell them that, yes, there was something before the iPod, that someone alive originated that music, and often when they come to our concerts they are in for a pleasant surprise both to the ears and eyes.
We are very proud here in Clinton of our Flynn Classical Concerts, and we’d like to make you a promise—we will never buy in to tired old precepts like: ‘Classical = good as Popular = bad’—but rather simply mount a steady search for accomplished players of good music, and nab them for a stopover live concert. That in a nutshell is our modest undertaking and our highest ambition.
Come and hear for yourself.
