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What's Up at the Custom House - September 11, 2016
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New London Maritime Society -
nicely nautical & totally Thames
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Before summer ends - escape on a Sunset or Harvest-moon lighthouse tour. They're
Thursday, Friday & Saturday this week
September 15,16, & 17
All night-time trips are on Matt Lynch's Water Transit II (below).
Last-minute registrations call 203-444-2884.
With every NLMS boat-tour ticket, you receive free admission to the Custom House Maritime Museum, and (one-time) 10% off purchases in the MUSEUM SHOP (and this week, there's already a 20%-off sale).
All tour profits go to local lighthouse preservation: we own three!
And 50% of your ticket price is tax-deductible.
The seasons' almost over to tour inside Ledge Lighthouse, traveling aboard Project Oceanology out of Groton. Find out more HERE.
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Custom House Maritime Matters Public Access TV
Tune in on Thursdays at 5 PM, channel 25
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Our Submarine Centennial exhibition -
Submarine Memorabilia from the Collection of Ed Uditis: 1940s through 1990s, with additional items from Axel Westerberg and the New London Maritime Society Collection.
At the next
Jibboom Club GAM, Tuesday, September 20 at 1 PM,
Ed Uditis will speak about his deep-sea diving experiences and his work as a member of the Historical Diving Society. Ed also will give a personal tour of his collection, now on view at the Custom H
ouse.
Donation for refreshments, only. Please come and bring a friend.
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Fairy Tale Tableaux, Childhood Scenes, & an Alpine Idyll
Caspar David Friedrich, "Moonlit Landscape," ca. 1808, watercolor on paper, The Morgan Library and Museum
Viola and Piano Recital
Fairy Tale Tableaux, Childhood Scenes, & an Alpine Idyll
Pianist
Aymeric Dupré la Tour and Violist
Alison Holt
at the Custom House
On
Sunday, September 25, at 5 PM, pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour, with Alison Holt on viola, perform a program of Romantic music by
Robert Schumann and
Johannes Brahms:
Fairy Tale Tableaux, Childhood Scenes, & an Alpine Idyll.
The first part of the concert will be dedicated to Robert Schumann (1810-56). Pianist Aymeric Dupré la Tour will interweave his performance of the thirteen childhood scenes
Kinderszenen op. 15 (1838) with his duo with Alison Holt, performing
Märchenbilder op. 113 (1851), a suite of four movements evoking fairy tale tableaux from Rapunzel, Rumpelstiltskin, and Sleeping Beauty. After a brief pause, the duo will perform the Sonata in F minor for viola and piano op. 120 no. 1 (1894) by Johannes Brahms (1833-97). Brahms completed this mature composition in idyllic Bad Ischl, Austria in July 1894.
Sign up 24/7 online at:
Space is limited. Aymeric's last concert sold out, so please book in advance. Admission $20, $15 NLMS members and students. 860-448-2501.
Remaining tickets will be available at the door prior to the concert.
Born in the UK, violist
Alison Holt studied at The Royal College of Music under Frederick Riddle and Brian Hawkins. She began teaching violin and viola while continuing to play for the English String Orchestra, Midlands Opera, and chamber groups in the UK Midlands until 1999, when she and her family moved to Stonington Connecticut. Here, she helped to found Calvary Music School in Stonington with her husband, Simon, where she taught until 2010. Alison plays with the Salt Marsh Opera orchestra and chamber groups in the area. She has recently begun teaching for Music City Strings in New London.
Aymeric Dupré la Tour, a native of Lyon, France, studied music at an early age at the Conservatoire National de Région. After both earth-science and organ-performance studies in Paris, he earned an Artist Diploma in organ and a Masters in historical performance at Oberlin College, OH, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Juilliard School, NY. His performances have taken him across France, the United States, Canada, and South America in venues such as Weill Hall, Carnegie Hall. Dr. Dupré la Tour plays as principal for harpsichord/organ/piano with the Chamber Orchestra of New York, Ottorino Respighi. He also organizes concert series as Artistic Director of the New London Maritime Museum and the North Stonington Historical Society. Dupré la Tour works as Musical Curator at Zuckermann Harpsichords International in Stonington and Assistant Organist at St Theresa Roman Catholic Church, Trumbull.
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Working with Charter Oak, your donation to the Maritime Society can be doubled!
Charter Oak Federal Credit Union is giving away $100,000 over the next 80 days.
Click HERE to make a donation.
New London Maritime Society
150 Bank Street
New London, CT 06320.
Thank you to our first donors!
--New London Maritime Society
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KEEP UP WITH WHAT'S UP - click on the links below to keep connected
Sunday is the last day of the CT Maritime Heritage Festival. Stop downtown to see who's visiting on the NL waterfront.
The annual Harvest Moon Dinner for The Wood Library & Museum in South Windsor looks delish. It's next Saturday September 17: woodmemoriallibrary.org
New London County Historical Society's 146th(!) Annual Meeting is Sunday, September 18, from 2 to 5 PM at the Shaw Mansion. Please RSVP to Steve@ nlchs.org.
The Friends of Fort Trumbull presents James Streeter, President of the Groton Historical Society, for a lecture on Morton Plant.
Thursday, September 29, 2016, at 7 p.m. at the Fort Trumbull Conference Center at 90 Walbach Street, New London, CT.
fortfriends.org
Custom House Maritime Museum
is on Facebook. 'Like' us to keep up with
our events as
well as news about museums, worldwide, and issues related to our mission of preservation & conservation.
We're pleased to announce that Capt. Edward Cubanski, USCG, ret.(
right) has joined New London Maritime Society as a trustee. Welcome, Captain!
Facebook
New London Harbor Light
reports the latest on NL Harbor 'Pequot' Light and about American lighthouse preservation activities.
Facebook
Race Rock Lighthouse posts news concerning Race Rock Light and international lighthouse tourism & preservation efforts.
Facebook page
Sentinels on the Sound presents our Summer 2016 events program along with other NL summer activities. This is where we post all notices of current activities.
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Custom House MUSEUM SHOP
to see what's new. The MUSEUM SHOP is open Wednesday through Sunday, between 1 and 5 PM, or by appointment. You don't need a museum ticket to get in.
Over the month of
September, we're having a
super sale in the
MUSEUM SHOP to make way
for new inventory!
September 1 through 15, take an extra 20% off all purchases (members add 10% for a 30% total discount). September 16 through 30, take 30% off all purchases (members receive 40% discount). Above left: a pop-up note card. right: a U.S. Navy alphabet book.
Below: our friends, the Fishers Island Ferry.
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Have a sparkling day!
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