Live Music Project Will Offer ‘America’ At Quick Center

FAIRFIELD — From the soaring grandeur of Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring to the unrelenting malevolence in the score of Hitchcock’s Psycho, Live Music Project (LMP) will consider quintessentially American music in its final concert of the season on Friday,  April 28, at 8 pm, at Fairfield University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

“America,” a fundraiser for the Quick Center-based, conductorless orchestra, will feature guest actors Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon.

The varied program will also feature Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Joplin’s Magnetic Rag, and a piece Ben Franklin wrote for string quartet. LMP Music Director and violinist Netta Hadari will join a bluegrass band for a few tunes, and a jazz ensemble made up of LMP members will also be featured.

As always the concert will include anecdotes and friendly commentary, as well as several readings of American poetry.

LMP Artistic Director Daniel Smith has written orchestral music to underscore a reading of Hemingway’s classic The Killers, as well as two special performances. Mia Dillon, who was featured in the film The Money Pit and Broadway’s Crimes of the Heart, will read a story by Langston Hughes and her husband, Keir Dullea, star of the classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey, will read from sci-fi master Ray Bradbury.

LMP aims to change the way audiences think about chamber music and offers concerts featuring both classical and contemporary works of all kinds, with an emphasis on interaction with the audience.

Tickets are $25. For tickets, call the Quick Center box office at 203-254-4010 or 877-ARTS-396 (877-278-7396). The Quick Center is on North Benson Road. For more information, visit QuickCenter.com.