Harpist Ted Davenport plays holiday favorites

We first heard harpist Ted Davenport a couple of years ago. Entering La Vita e Bella restaurant in Vestal for Mother’s Day dinner, we were greeted by Davenport’s music in the lobby. The gentle tones carried throughout the dining room, adding a lovely ambiance.

This past Thursday Dec 10, we visited the Broome West Senior Center in Endwell to hear Davenport play a program of holiday music. For nearly 45 minutes, he offered smoothly flowing holiday songs, carols, and medleys. At times, center visitors lightly sang the words along.

Endwell was just one of four stops Davenport was making that day, with 40 gigs scheduled between Dec 10 and Dec 24. To learn more about the harpist and his harp, click here.

Did you have an art-full weekend?

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Vienna Boys Choir charms at The Forum

Reviewed by Lee Shepherd

It’s been a very good week, musically speaking, starting with the Nowell Sing We Clear concert Dec. 6 at Binghamton’s Unitarian Universalist Congregation (a Cranberry Coffeehouse event) and the Vienna Boys Choir Dec. 9 at The Forum. If you missed the sadly under-attended Nowell concert by these four talented troubadours, kick yourself. Make a note on your calendar for December 2010 to get tickets, if we’re lucky enough to have them in Binghamton again!

Angels we have heard on high – the Vienna Boys Choir gives a whole new meaning to the phrase. The choir – a band of 23 little boys with angelic voices — and their devilishly handsome conductor, Manolo Cagnin, charmed the nearly full house at The Forum. The concert was a special event in the Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra season.