“Free outdoor concerts on the New Haven Green by Lucinda Williams, Darlene Love, Angélique Kidjo, Ibeyi and Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra will be among the highlights of the 20th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas” from June 12 to 27, writes Frank Rizzo in Sunday’s (3/29) Hartford Courant (Connecticut). Included in the festival will be the Mark Morris Dance Group; Roger Guenveur Smith’s one-man play Rodney King; Quebec’s Machine de Cirque; and a festival co-commission of new works from Imani Winds, Passion for Bach and Coltrane. “There will also be free talks, including those by New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast, poet Claudia Rankine, journalist Jelani Cobb, and topical conversations on water and the environment, art and politics, race and civil liberties today…. There also will be an exploration of ‘Frank Sinatra at 100’ … and a concert performance from Kurt Elling with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra.” The International Festival of Arts & Ideas was established in 1996 with the goal of showcasing the city and the state as major arts destinations.
Posted April 1, 2015
