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Ball & Socket Arts is excited to pilot a brand new series: PARTY IN THE PEWS featuring unlikely combinations and fresh musical adventures.
On Saturday, April 13th from 7-9 pm, we will be piloting the first ever "Sing Out" led by Brian Ember. Join us for a night of belting out classic tunes from the last few decades in our very own community sing.
Full song list & link to a Spotify playlist on our website: https://ballandsocket.org/partyinthepews
It will be silly.
It will be delightful.
You'll find community and find unlikely connections.
No musical experience necessary, but a curious and open mind will help.
New Haven's Brian Ember (https://brianember.com/about) will be our song leader. Classically-trained composer and singer, Brian Ember, has been making music since singing You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker as a toddler in the bathtub. A musical chimera, his love of rock and glam sat side-by-side with doo-wop, Mozart, Bach and contemporary composers like Györy Ligeti and John Corigliano.
A composer with a host of works for string quartet, symphony orchestra and choirs under his belt, Ember started the string quartet-powered rock band, The Tet Offensive, in New York City; fusing his love for counterpoint and horsehair strings with theatrics and thrashing. The Tet Offensive will be releasing an EP at the end of 2024.
Ember left the strings in the background for his first solo endeavor in 2019. The New Chastity, a full-on loungy, soulful baroque pop album that takes inspiration from late 70s musicians like Pink Floyd, Leonard Cohen, Eric Carmen and Electric Light Orchestra to deliver a deeply personal record about divorce and lost love.
In January of 2020, Brian debuted in his first principal opera role as Bartolo in The Barber of Seville with . Since August of 2022, Brian has sung the role of Alberich with Opera Tundis Ring Cycle performances of Das Rheingold and Seigfried. This August, he will reprise the role in Das Rheingold and carry Alberich through the final opera in Wagners Ring Cycle, Götterdämmerung.
His follow-up EP, Thank You, and second LP, Get Ready to Hate Me are coming soon.
Song list for April 13th below:
Spotify Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4RQAz4bXe2POQ8vd9CZSON?si=4d95973cbf6f4d02
Song List for April 13th, 2024:
The Beatles - All Together Now
The Temptations - My Girl
The Supremes - Stop! In the Name of Love
The Everly Brothers - Dream
Sonny & Cher - I've Got You, Babe
John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love With You
The Ronettes - Be My Little Baby
Annie Lennox - Walking on Broken Glass
David Bowie - Modern Love
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble (or Shake it Off)
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
fun - We Are Young
TLC - Waterfalls
4 Non Blondes - What's Up?
Oasis - Wonderwall
Otis Redding - Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
Whitney Houston - Greatest Love of All
Elton John - Don't Go Breaking My Heart
Modern English - I Melt With You
Jackie Wilson - Your Love is Lifting Me Higher
Experience what Brian Eno describes as 'the key to a long life' and sing with us!
Need more reasons to try a group sing?
Brian Eno's Reasons: https://www.npr.org/2008/11/23/97320958/singing-the-key-to-a-long-life
Scientific Reasons: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00549-0
Journalistic Reasons: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/2023/06/25/singing-with-others-mental-physical-health/
Etc...: https://www.artsandmindlab.org/group-singing-provides-a-good-refrain-for-the-brain/
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LocationSt. Peters Episcopal Church (View)
59 Main Street
Cheshire, CT 06410
United States
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