by Richard Coffey, music director
The greater Hartford community soon bids farewell to Maestro Edward Cumming as music director of The Hartford Symphony Orchestra since 2002. Very early in his tenure among us, Edward embraced the work and the art of the Hartford Chorale, offering us the opportunity to prepare, embrace, and present the great choral-orchestral repertoire before large, enthusiastic audiences. The orchestra itself came to admire our work deeply, always offering high praise to what we brought to the Bushnell stage with them. Season by season, Edward handed the Chorale the great gift of music by Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz, Mozart, Poulenc, Orff, Verdi, and others. He treated us collegially and respectfully, and most of all, with immense affection. We will look back on Edward’s nine years with us with much pleasure, and we of course wish him all good things as his career moves down a different path. Our final concert with him on June 4th will be powerful, poignant, and memorable. Thank you for being a part of this great “choral era” of the past nine years, and let me thank you in advance for the great music-making that lies ahead for the Hartford Chorale.
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