Interpretations of Chuck Connelly's Paintings

Name: Interpretations of Chuck Connelly's Paintings
Start: 2024-09-22T17:00:00-04:00
Location: Chuck Connelly's Studio Philadelphia, PA

Schedule

Sun Sep 22 2024 at 05:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Chuck Connelly's Studio Philadelphia, PA | Philadelphia, PA

For Immediate Release - New York, NY - On Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 at 5pm, Composers Concordance will host an event where composers, musicians and poets gather at the home studio of renowned artist Chuck Connelly to interpret his paintings through music and words.
Connelly rose to fame in the 1980's and was immortalized by Martin Scorsese in the film New York Stories. However, he shunned the commercial art world, and for the past 25 years has lived as a recluse in his Victorian home in Philadelphia, surrounded by over 5,000 of his paintings.
Paintings to be featured include: Animals in the Street (1994), The Bride (1982), David Bowie (2016), Deflating Earth (2022), Forward Flash (1979) and Monkey Family (2011).
Performers are Charles Coleman (voice), Lynn Bechtold (violin), Dan Cooper (alto flute), Franz Hackl (trumpet), Carli Muñoz (piano), Gene Pritsker (guitar) as well as the CompCord Murderer's Row of Poets: Peter Carlaftes, Carlinious M, Robert C. Ford, Kat Georges, Erik T. Johnson, Jim Kempner and Imelda O'Reilly.
The concert will be livestreamed on Composers Concordance's Facebook Page.
In person attendance is limited. If interested, please contact [email protected].