Closing Night Of The 2016 Arts & Ideas Festival:
Cirque Mechanics & New Haven Symphony Orchestra
On The Green
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| Great Weather, Great Audience, Great Show to close out the 2016 Festival of Arts & Ideas |
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| The final night of the 2016 Arts & Ideas Festival on the New Haven Green |
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| The view from back-stage |
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| New Haven Symphony plays while Cirque Mechanics performs, high above |
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| New Haven Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Boughton |
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| Cirque Mechanic’s first violinist in a life and death struggle with the music stand… |
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| Oops, sitting on the violin is NOT proper classical technique |

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| Cirque Mechanics “conductor” mimics Conductor William Boughton, to the delight of the crowd |
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| Ready for his entrance… |
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| Cirque Mechanics on stage |
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| Cirque Mechanics performs high above the green |

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| Cirque Mechanics high above the main stage on the New Haven Green |
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| New Haven Symphony plays while Cirque Mechanics performs, high above |
All Photographs © Mike Franzman
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