“As classically trained clarinetists held a note resonating off half-full pints, for a brief moment, there wasn’t a phone screen lit and dozens of screen swipers held back,” writes Barry Lytton in Saturday’s (10/6) Stamford Advocate (CT). “With beers in hand, they tuned to the first set of movements by two of the Stamford Symphony’s top musicians. Some attendees said they had never attended the symphony, but loved the idea of it…. So on Wednesday evening, they packed into a small brewery in an industrial park to hear pieces usually heard in symphony halls. The black ties were missing, replaced with jeans and a Yankees cap or two, and the symphony was pared back—only two clarinets could fit in Half Full Brewery’s tight tasting room—but the music was the same…. If the crowds you need won’t come to you, go to them, according to planners of the sold-out Symphony On Tap. The symphony’s foray into unorthodox settings comes at a time when it and similar institutions are fighting to stay relevant in a city awash in moneyed millennials that, if hooked, would keep them alive for years to come.”
Posted October 9, 2018
