image: Lobster Trap Menorah 2024 is ready! Temple Ahavat’s community lighting ceremony to mark the beautiful Festival of Lights and hope will be held on December 29th this year, 4:30-5:15, Middle Street, Gloucester, MA.
Hanukkah is falling on December 25 – January 2, 2025 this year. Don’t miss a visit to the community lighting or this great read from Ethan Forman about its Gloucester history and special anniversary this year:
“Bringing Light into Darkness. Lobster Trap Menorah Celebrates Hanukkah in Gloucester Style” by Ethan Forman with photos by Paul Bilodeau and Forman. Cape Ann Holiday magazine 2024 specialGloucester Daily Times edition.
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What an impressive family affair! Congratulations Dr. Powers and Dr. Powers 🙂 !
Powers Family Dental has moved from 26 Dale Avenue to 18 Dale Avenue. Dr. Conor Powers, Dr. Michael Power’s eldest child, has joined the practice and is as congenial, warm and fastidious as his father. What hasn’t changed? The wonderful staff and dental hygienists! Michael’s sister Gina Muniz and niece Candace Balboa also work at the office. The expanded practice features six gleaming exam rooms outfitted in comfort and style with the latest and innovative equipment, efficient dental chair tech, custom sound system, and imaging–the x-ray being the sole carry over from the prior digs.
The new headquarters is closer to Central Grammar, directly across from the post office, with plenty of windows and views. Parking is available on Dale Avenue plus there are a few spaces on the building lot. From Dale Avenue, the accessibility entrance integrates a classic New England architectural detail into its design: a sweet and safe bridge crossing walkway to the front door. More Power To You 🙂
Portraits: Drs. Powers providing dental care since…1926!
“Walter Powers Sr. started the business in 1926 on Middle St. In 1957 Walter Powers Jr. joined and they moved to 26 Dale Ave. In 1999, Michael Powers joined at 26 Dale Avenue. On September 16, 2024 Conor Powers joined and the practice moved to 18 Dale Avenue.” – Candace Balbo
Michael Powers maternal grandfather, Reginald Courant, was also a dentist- on Middle Street!
Moved from “there to here” 26 Dale Ave to 18 Dale Ave | Reno/Before/walkway
Powers Family Dental RIBBON CUTTING OPENING!
Courtesy images. September, 2024
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Here are all the images of the Gloucester homes added to the Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2024 edition and the Google online and printable map or scroll below. Enjoy an abundance of creativity from our neighbors’ displays–religious and secular, traditional and one hit wonders, minimal and ornate, and everything in between. This is the 8th year in a row—and the 5th accompanied by a map with photo. Please note: you might want to increase the brightness on your display if you have it set low. Images can be clicked and enlarged. They aren’t set to their highest resolution. **For the 2024 edition there are only two posts**. For past year maps, search Good Morning Gloucester 2023, 2022 and so on; or here
Image Block Batch 2 . Post 2 of 2 for the Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2024 edition.
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2024 Map Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives
A selection of Gloucester’s decorated homes in 2024. Photos were posted on Good Morning Gloucester in 2 separate batches. Map is current as of 12/22/2024
Image Block Batch 1 (reposting here):
For the 8th year in a row—and the 5th accompanied by a map with photos—enjoy a selection of Gloucester’s houses decorated for the season. Addresses so far: downtown, Reynard, Finch, Washington, Spruce, Goose Cove Lane. Photos will be posted on Good Morning Gloucester in separate batches.
ROADS WORTH A RIDE AND ICONIC SCENIC STOPS
Concentrated neighborhood blocks include *Elizabeth Road *Finch Lane *Goose Cove Lane *Harrison Ave. and Crestview *Hartz St. *High Popples Road *Reservoir Road *Reynard Street *Essex Ave/Rt. 133 Kent Circle to Essex
Mad Merry Solos: Abbott Road; 7 Cherry Hill Road; Concord Street; Lendall (turn off Harrison Ave.); 8 Spruce; Starknaught Heights; 326 Essex Ave.
Iconic Scenic Stops: Gloucester’s Christmas trees at Kent Circle and Lobster Trap Tree on Harbor Loop, the Lobster Trap Menorah on Middle Street and Rockport’s Christmas Tree in Dock Square are enchanting each and every year.
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Holiday Lights and Cocoa Drives 2024 edition is off. More merry neighborhoods, pictures and map coming soon.
Image block: For the 8th year in a row—and the 5th accompanied by a map with photos—enjoy a selection of Gloucester’s houses decorated for the season. Addresses so far: downtown, Reynard, Finch, Washington, Spruce, Goose Cove Lane. Photos will be posted on Good Morning Gloucester in separate batches.
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Besides The Farm, Essex Shipbuilding Museum is mentioned, too.
Billy Baker article 12/13/2024
“And she has tried. And tried. This was her second attempt of the day, and the previous one — when the bird was perched on the railing of an apartment complex, staring in a window at a woman trying to get dressed — ended as many others have. The bird took one look at Reilly and her net and turned into Usain Bolt, sprinting off before flying up into a tree…
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Tina Iliakostas has worked here for 24 years. She’s unhesitatingly calm and professional which makes it easy for customers to work through any hiccups or questions.
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Image: Jean Woodbury, joined by Tom Clark, Asst. Dir. Rockport Public Library in Springfield, Mass. for The Association for Small and Rural Libraries (ARSL) 2024 national conference
The Association for Small and Rural Libraries (ARSL) was founded in in 1982 and became an American Library Association (ALA) affiliate in 2008. The ARSL conference is scheduled in a different part of the country each year, cycling through a five year rotation, spread out by region and city to foster congenial networking and knowledge. In 2024 the convention landed in the Northeast, and for the first time in Massachusetts. Attendees encountered celebrity writers and panels and an impressive Author Fest. Author Jean Woodbury traveled with Tom Clark to celebrate The Tree in Dock Square and Cape Ann Reads on the road and representing our region and local libraries at ARSL! (arsl.org)
Holiday Delights is next week! Heidi Dallin shares the press release and ticket information below. Can you guess how many young people have played a part in this mainstay since the very first production? Tickets are selling now!
Images: All photos by Sassy Square marketing
HOLIDAY DELIGHTS 2024
The Cape Ann YMCA presents Holiday Delights on December 13 at 7pm; December 14 at 2pm and December 15 at 2pm at the Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard Street, Gloucester, MA. Set in Gloucester, Holiday Delights is a festive mix of stories, songs and dance celebrating the special traditions of other cultures and families as seen through a young child’s magical journey on Christmas Eve to discover what is really important during the holiday season. A Cape Ann holiday tradition, Holiday Delights is conceived and directed by Gloucester native, award winning professional actress and Harvard University graduate Heidi Dallin, the YMCA of the North Shore Theatre Specialist. Since the production’s premiere in 2007 over 750 young people from Cape Ann and beyond have appeared in Holiday Delights through the years.
“It is so exciting each year to see these wonderful young actors tell the story of Holiday Delights! I am so fortunate to work with all of them! They are all working so hard and now they are part of this Cape Ann tradition entering its 14th year!” says Holiday Delights creator and director Heidi Dallin. “This year 10-year-old Carolyn Andrews plays Mistletoe, Mrs. Claus’ Elf Assistant,” continues Dallin, “Young Carolyn is excited to play the coveted role especially since her big sister Malia played the role in 2016. Malia is now a freshman at BU School for the Arts studying Acting. Holiday Delights is a family tradition on Cape Ann!“
The 2024 edition of Holiday Delights features the journey of a young girl who discovers the spirit and the joys of the holiday season as she faces the unhappy prospect of leaving her beloved hometown of Gloucester and moving with her family to a new home in Michigan. Her special Christmas Eve journey helps her to realize and appreciate the importance of her family and friends as well as her own special holiday traditions. During her Christmas Eve travels with Mrs. Claus and the elves, she celebrates Hanukkah, travels back in time to turn of the century Gloucester to see her Italian-Irish ancestors celebrate the holidays, and meets famous characters including The Crachit Family from Charles Dickens’ holiday masterpiece, A Christmas Carol and The March Sisters from Louisa May Alcott’s heartwarming classic novel, Little Women.
The 2024 production has a cast of over 35 actors age 5 to 15 from throughout the North Shore including Gloucester, Rockport, Beverly, and Essex. Holiday Delights 2024 features Gloucester’s Brae Gavin as Mrs. Claus and Gloucester’s Aubrey Hamm as the young girl she takes on the life changing Christmas Eve journey. Gloucester’s Carolyn Andrews and Beverly’s Evie Swallom are Mistletoe and Peppermint, Mrs. Claus’ loyal elf assistants. Beverly’s Madelyn Swallom and Gloucester’s Lillian Jamieson are also featured in the production as the supervisors of Santa’s Workshop.
Staff
The Holiday Delights production staff includes: Music Director: Anthony Prestigiovanni; Set, Costume and Prop Design: Sarah Vandewalle and Lia Sophia Numerosi; Stage Manager: Jenny Hersey and Production Assistants: Sophia Drost, Naia Gibson, Harry Larabell, Damian Etna, Kit Carpenter, Claire Dullea and Merina Earle.
Tickets
Holiday Delights Performances are December 13 at 7pm; December 14 at 2pm and December 15 at 2pm at the Annisquam Village Hall, 34 Leonard Street, Gloucester, MA. For tickets call the Cape Ann YMCA at 978-283-0470 or go to HolidayDelightsTickets
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Video/photo mid November sunrise, Wingaersheek Beach: Crossed paths with a lone coyote twice. Saw it cut across the parking lot straight up path 1, turn left across the dunes, and climb up out of sight, heading in the direction of the homes on the bluff. About 40 minutes later, I was surprised to witness it now galloping along the water’s edge over to the rocks, pausing momentarily to check out a beachwalker with a dog emerging from path 1, then exiting path 3. Evidently, it had completed a big circle route.
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Art and culture have been laced throughout Gloucester’s history. City staff, departments, partner organizations, artists, and volunteers have kept detailed inventory checklists and care of a world class municipal art collection decade by decade for more than a century. Several lists were managed by American art luminaries. Here is a City Hall example from 1937, “A Catalogue of Murals and Decorations in Gloucester Done by Gloucester Artists in the Employ of the Federal Art Project”.
The 250th anniversary formed a committee for the arts. Mayor Alper reinvigorated the City Hall collection display in 1977, “Gloucester Arts & Humanities”. The Waywell inventory dates from the 1990s. When the City updated all its ordinances in 2000, the Committee for the Arts was formally added. In 2005 then CFTA Chair Kate Bodin and former CFTA member John Ronan drafted a prescient and comprehensive art policy celebrating all forms of creative expression. Since 2000, 6 inventory lists have been compiled—by volunteers and/or commissioned.
A major inventory checklist and report completed in 2006 was a dual project orchestrated by the City Archives (link here) andCommittee for the Arts that focused on City Hall. Although the report did not include artwork measurements and was a work in progress, it was another decade’s invaluable record to build upon.
The Art of Gloucester City Hall, 2006. See printable PDF of inventory below (some attribution errors). A written evaluation was included which I’ll add in.
Bethany Jay (principal writing and research)
Information on Gloucester City Hall compiled by Sarah Dunlop, Jane Walsh, and Stephanie Buck of the Gloucester Archives office. Supplemental materials were written by John Ronan. Mayor John Bell.
Gloucester Committee for the Arts- John Ronan, Judith Hoglander, Dale Brown, Christine Lundberg, Steve Myers, Sage Walcott
Committee for the Arts member, Eric Schoonover, took on the task of the first database and digitized record–CDs, later joined by Marcia Hart, with ladder in tow to double check the inventory status and measurements which was not on the 2006 report. Several excels and docs followed and were shared widely. Under successive administrations led by Mayor Kirk and Mayor Romeo Theken, an open access inventory and available online gallery was an expressed goal for multiple city and partner grants, the city’s tourism efforts (a precursor to Discover Gloucester), the City’s two cultural districts, HarborWalk, Gloucester Arts & Cultural Initiative, public arts projects, free apps and platforms.
In 2018-19, Williamstown Art Conservation completed a conservation and full inventory report for the City mural collection, triage and stabilizing–for the first time including works not on display. (author note: I will add the PDF here)
Flash forward to 2024, the Gloucester art collection archives is available anew in an online art gallery through Art Work Archive (www.artworkarchive.com). Keep in mind that this is a work in progress. Some of the artwork information is incomplete or a placeholder. I’m sure cross-checking with the original documentation will continue and help with corrections, and more works will be added.
For example, the monumental murals by Lawrence “Larry” O’Toole (1909-1951) installed in 1982 in O’Maley Middle School are listed “Untitled” in the archive pages. They’re not untitled. They were originally commissioned by Ben Pine for the Gloucester Fisheries Institute and YMCA circa 1940-48 and illustrate fishing industry and vessels common in Gloucester. I interviewed Ron Gilson who confirmed the history and my research. DPW inspected and measured them almost 10 years ago and Williamstown Art Conservation Center, of course, when they did their evaluation. Titles are:
Larry O’Toole, Returning to Harbor, Twin Lighthouses
Larry O’Toole, Tuna Fishing with Spears
Larry O’Toole, Schooner with Rod Fishing
Larry O’Toole, Seine Fishing with Seagulls Overhead
Larry O’Toole, Trawling
Puzzlingly, the Mulhaupt series across from the O’toole’s are on display out of order at O’Maley and could have fit sequentially if the two series were switched at installation in 1982.
In 2021, the Wall Street Journal featured an article about WPA era art and online catalogue resources. Gloucester’s are largely absent, for many reasons. I shared the article news here (3/25/2021) and wrote:
Judith Dobrzynski highlights WPA murals and a renewed online resource* for “Arts in Review” the Wall Street Journal.
“During the Great Depression, federal programs funded the creation of thousands of murals in post offices, hospitals and other locations across the country, many of which can now be viewed online.”Judith H. Dobrzynski. The Staying Inside Guide: Big-Deal Art in Plain-Spoken Venues. Wall Street Journal. March 23, 2021. *A few of the WPA murals completed in Gloucester had been included in an earlier iteration of the website, in some cases misattributed. Gloucester is not mentioned in the article.
The reviewer highlights Coit Tower in San Francisco as one renowned example.
“The New Deal murals inside Coit Tower in San Francisco are also well-known. Painted by some two-dozen artists in 1934, they are social realist panels about life in California during the Depression, with titles like “Banking and Law” and “Meat Industry.” Their story, with a detailed layout, is available in a San Francisco Recreation and Park Department brochure.”Judith H. Dobrzynski for WSJ
The reverse ratio is evident here: Gloucester selected four artists who completed scores of masterworks* for specific public buildings. Monumental stunning mural cycles were commissioned under the auspices of Federal Arts PWAP and WPA-era programs from 1935-42 for Sawyer Free Library, City Hall, the High School on Dale Ave (now Central Grammar apartments), Hovey, Maplewood, and Forbes elementary schools. As schools were closed, disposed, or repurposed, murals were rescued and re-sited within City Hall and later O’Maley.
The City of Gloucester artists were significant muralists and painters. In truth, venerated. They captured stories of Gloucester and became a celebrated part of our history and artistry. When considered as a whole, the Gloucester murals rival WPA era collections completed in big cities. The density of murals are as concentrated as any found in larger cities, like Coit Tower in San Francisco, though spread out among buildings rather than one tower, or one structure, as with Harlem Hospital.
Gloucester’s post office nearly landed a commission, but fate intervened. I’ll save that for the Part 2 post.
Gloucester and greater Cape Ann artists were commissioned for murals beyond Gloucester and Massachusetts and served key roles on selection panels and planning.
Gloucester is not mentioned in this WSJ article or few major compilations.
“Though painted by nationally known and successful artists at the top of their game, the works have suffered from a perfect storm of anonymity.” Catherine Ryan, 2012
City Owned Art Work Archive online gallery
What is new about this 2024 city owned inventory online gallery is that 1) a wonderful creative director, Anna Chirico, was hired to photograph and inventory the collection. Fun fact, Chirico of course has helped her mom, JoAnn, with goodlinens studio on Main Street in Gloucester (goodlinenstudio.com), and 2) Kate Shamon Rushford, Gloucester’s arts, culture, and events coordinator was hired for a part time position within Community Development dedicated to projects like this one. Shamon Rushford is pursuing a Gloucester presence online through Bloomberg Connects Arts and Culture online, too.
I recommend that the city’s .gov website maintain exclusive pages as well, because what’s new and trending in arts engagement is not static or exclusive.
Gloucester DPW has utilized 3D photography for jobs (City Hall after the fire), and city departments including Community Development/Engineering make use of arcgis subscriptions. These resources on the .gov site would help with virtual tours and printables. It’s important to keep city ownership of the content. Gloucesterma.gov went to Discover Gloucester. As long as the content is retrievable, dedicated pages can be available on the .gov site itself regardless of technological or fad obsolescence.
Welcome to the Meat and Sweet Food’s Thanksgiving Order Page. We appreciate every one of your orders. We make all of our food from scratch, with a lot of love. Pickup is Wed Nov 27, 11AM-6PM at our BBQ location, 23 East Main Street, Gloucester. Please contact us if you have questions or need alternate arrangements. You will receive a confirmation email after you order. Please check your spam folder if you do not. You will also get an email from us with a total amount. This will come up to a week after you order. Payment is expected at pickup. Please be patient, we respond one at a time.
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2024 Cape Ann Shared Kitchen daily schedule
Chez Moi Chez Vous, Chef Fred Arnaud’s French cuisine Tuesdays and Wednesdays
Jenx Food for Your Soul, fried chicken and sides, Thursdays
Meat & Sweets, BBQ Meats and tasty treats, Saturdays
Salty’s Bagels, Sundays
Look for 5 Star Phresh Phood, Lobster Roller and Crepe Du Jour Food Trucks at Farmers Markets and special events.
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Musical treat can’t be beat. Fun plans for Thanksgiving weekend
CAPE ANN SYMPHONY THE 73rd SEASON Yoichi Udagawa, Music Director HOLIDAY POPS A Cape Ann Holiday Tradition featuring The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Led by Choral Director Brittany Betts
Performances: Manchester & Ipswich Saturday, November 30, 2024: 2:00 PM in Ipswich Saturday, November 30, 2024: 7:30 PM in Manchester Sunday, December 1 2024: 2:00 PM in Manchester
Cape Ann Symphony news about the program:
This annual festive musical celebration led by CAS Conductor and Music Director Yoichi Udagawa features a program of holiday favorites for orchestra and chorus.
“The musicians of the orchestra and I love our Holiday Pops concert,” says CAS Conductor and Music Director Yoichi Udagawa, “We have selected a wide range of music that celebrates the season, and we love sharing it with our wonderful audiences. The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus, now under the direction of Brittany Betts, will be joining us, and it’s always such a joy to collaborate with them. Come join us! We can hardly wait to see you!!”
The Cape Ann Symphony launched The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus under the directions of Wendy Bettsat the 2005 Holiday Pops Concert. . The group has performed with the Cape Ann Symphony at Holiday Pops Concertsin 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 2013, 2014. 2015, 2016. 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022. Holiday Pops 2024 marks the premiere of new Cape Ann Symphony Choral Director Brittany Betts. Brittany Betts took over leadership of the CAS Chorus this fall when her mother Wendy Betts retired as the longtime Choral Director for the CAS Chorus. “I am especially excited for everyone to hear the new iteration of the symphony chorus.” says Brittany Betts, “After a year off following the retirement of my mom, Wendy Betts, who led the chorus with great success for 16 years, it is a great joy and honor to be part of the rebuilding process. Each of the 32 singers had to audition to make the roster since we were creating a smaller chorus. So, voices had to be strong enough to hold their own and have the ability to blend well quickly. I believe we have achieved success. The singers hail from all over the North Shore – Rockport, Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Beverly, Peabody, Ipswich and Georgetown. I am also pleased to have the incomparable pianist, Priscilla Walter, who was the chorus accompanist for many years, back at the piano. She is a gift of a collaborator. We are 8 weeks in now and we are sounding great. There is a lot of joyful (and super focused) camaraderie at our rehearsals. Everyone has been committed from day one to bringing light, beauty, love, joy and hope to our community through music. And there is that in spades throughout the whole program! We hope that the audience will leave feeling great – as if they were seen and held, loved and brought together through the music. You know, energized by the spirit of community at its finest. As the final line in the last piece states – “How great our joy!”
The Holiday Pops 2024 concert program includes Anderson’s Christmas Festival; Greensleeves, arranged by Reed; A Christmas Scherzo, arranged by Sebesky; Custer’s Chanukah Festival; and Selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker. The Cape Ann Symphony Chorus joins the orchestra to perform Christmas on Broadway, arranged by Higgins; Pinkzebra’s Winter Lullaby; Holcomb’s Festive Sounds of Hannukah 2nd Edition; Rutter’s What Sweeter Music and Rejoice! How Great Our Joy, arranged by McElory. ” CAS Choral Director Brittany Betts offers insight on the Chorus selections in the program, “The chorus will be presenting five beautiful and fun pieces to reflect the holiday and winter season – filled with traditional favorites and new to us pieces. You can expect to tap your feet to a medley of broadway Christmas tunes, and to feel cozy and reflective as the choir sings a tender lullaby about winter and time passing by. We will then honor our Jewish and Christian friends’ traditions with a medley of Hanukkah pieces, and a stunningly beautiful favorite of the classical choral realm – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music. Finally, we will top it all off with a rousing gospel piece, Rejoice! HowGreat Our Joy which reflects the jubilance of the Christian Christmas tradition. You will want to stand and clap for sure (and we want you to do so)! Now, don’t worry, we will be inviting the audience to join their voices as one big choir on the sing-a-long as has been a long favored tradition at the Holiday Pops Concerts. So grab your ticket, do your vocal warm-ups and let’s celebrate the season TOGETHER!”
Brittany Betts brings with her a different approach to the choral world having primarily worked as a trumpeter, djembefola (someone who skillfully plays the djembe, a West African drum) collaborator, worship leader, jazz singer and composer. She performs with the David Whitney Orchestra, Riverside Renaissance Swing Band, Cantemus Chamber Chorus and the vocal trio, ONE. In 2023-2024, she served as Artist-in-Residence at First Church Congregational in Swampscott, composing sung liturgies and songs for their Advent and Lenten services. Ms. Betts traveled the country and abroad as a Glocal (local and global combined) Musician Educator and Worship Coordinator with the Global Mission Unit of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for 10 years. During that time she also served on the music staff of Visible Music College in Memphis, TN where she taught voice, music theory, rock bands, the World Music Ensemble and a guided improvisation class.
About Cape Ann Symphony
Founded in Gloucester in 1951, the Cape Ann Symphony is a professional orchestra of over 70 players from throughout the New England area. They perform a subscription season of four concerts per year plus several Pops and youth concerts. The Symphony Board of Directors named Yoichi Udagawa the Music Director and Conductor of the Cape Ann Symphony in the summer of 2000 after a yearlong search. In addition to his leadership of Cape Ann Symphony, he is Music Director and Conductor of the Melrose Symphony Orchestra, and the Quincy Symphony Orchestra and a cover conductor at the Boston Pops Orchestra. Frequently invited to guest conduct, Maestro Udagawa has worked with many different orchestras including the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Nobeoka Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, the University of Texas Symphony Orchestra, the Indian Hill Symphony, the Garden State Philharmonic, the Brown University Orchestra, the Syracuse Society for New Music, the Boston Conservatory Orchestra, the Midcoast Symphony Orchestra, the Newton Symphony, the Austin Civic Orchestra, and the Mid-Texas Symphony. Maestro Udagawa is at home in popular and contemporary music as well as the standard symphonic repertoire. He is known for his relaxed manner and ability to speak from the podium which has helped new audiences as well as enthusiasts gain a greater appreciation for symphonic music. His programs often include premieres of new works – some specially commissioned for the orchestra — as well as great orchestral works across the symphonic repertoire and lively Pops programs. He is also an integral part of the Cape Ann Symphony Youth Initiative.
Yoichi Udagawa, the son of a nuclear physicist father and singer/artist mother, was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1964. His family immigrated to the United States soon thereafter. He began playing the violin at age four and made his conducting debut at age fifteen. After receiving a music degree from the University of Texas at Austin, he continued advanced studies in conducting with Gunther Schuller, Seiji Ozawa, Morihiro Okabe, and Henry Charles Smith. A fan of many different styles of music, Mr. Udagawa also enjoys performing gospel music in addition to his conducting activities. He is also an accomplished violinist and an avid fan of exercise and yoga.”/ End.
The Cape Ann Symphony’s Annual Holiday Pops Concert, returns to kick off the holiday season on Saturday, November 30 at 2 pm at the Dolan Performing Arts Center at Ipswich High School on 134 High Street, Ipswich, MA; Saturday, November 30 at 7:30 pm and Sunday, December 1 at 2 pm at Manchester-Essex High School auditorium on 36 Lincoln Street in Manchester-by-the-Sea, MA. For tickets and information about this Cape Ann Holiday tradition, call 978-281-0543 or visit www.capeannsymphony.org
Photo 1: The Cape Ann Symphony Photo by Jeph Ellis Photo 2: Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Photo by Jeph Ellis Photo 3: Cape Ann Symphony OnStage: A view from the Percussion Section. Conductor Yoichi Udagawa in back of photo Photo by Jeph Ellis Photo 4: Cape Ann Symphony French Horn Section Photo by Jeph Ellis Photo 5: Cape Ann Symphony Conductor and Music Director Yoichi Udagawa Courtesy Photo 6: Cape Ann Symphony Chorus Director Brittany Betts Courtesy Photo
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Join Paul Cary Goldberg & Antony Ohman at their new solo shows — Saturday November 9th from 4-6pm .
“Paul Cary Goldberg’s street images from the 1970’s alongside his contemporary farm portraits; and Antony Ohman’s black and white series exploring the relationship of images in sequence define this show.
Goldberg has titled his part I Wish That I Could Show You Everything; work spanning 1975-2020. In selecting images, he has pulled from an extensive body of work, choosing intimate portraits of farmers to actions of children just hanging out on the street to the poignant portraits of the hand of his late wife, Lee.
Ohman titles his part in the exhibition I Spy / A Bird’s Eye — a play on the guessing game we all know so well coupled with the notion of a bird’s eye view. He leads us on a search where the viewer’s eye is met by the various captures of a bird’s eye.”
Good Morning Gloucester 