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Given that Susan Dedell is the director of the Brattleboro Concert Choir and Orchestra, it isn't too surprising that when she speaks about her “enduring and evolving first love,” she is referring not to some remarkable person from her past, but rather to a piece of choral music: Johannes Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem.
“Brahms' German Requiem is music that is both triumphant and full of joy, even frisky at times, all unusual things for a requiem,” Dedell says. “There is an eternal freshness about the piece. This requiem faces the full complications of life, sort of like our American spirituals, never totally happy or sad, but simultaneously ebullient and willing to acknowledge suffering.”...
For as long as he can remember, anthropologist and watercolor painter Charles Wagner Norris-Brown refused to accept the fact that adults could tell him what to do. Never fully trusting the grown-up point of view, he confesses, “I always liked the freedom of children's thinking better. It is beautiful...
Robert Fritz is convinced that it doesn't matter what you think about yourself. We may live in a world where everyone identifies themselves as something, whether it be a Democrat or Republican, Christian or Muslim, American or Asian, a fat or a thin person, or even a winner or...
Peter Gould wears many hats. In a long and distinguished career, he has worked as a writer, a director, an actor, a mime, and a clown. Nonetheless, first and foremost, Gould considers himself an educator. And in recognition of his longtime dedication to education, he has recently won the 2016 Ellen McCulloch-Lovell Award in arts education from the Vermont Arts Council. “Teaching is such a responsibility, such a trust,” says Gould. “It informs everything I do. In fact, all the...
In a performance sponsored by Yellow Barn, an innovative quartet of musicians from Chicago will showcase a work-in-progress written for a classic film based on a beloved children's novel. Yellow Barn, the international center for chamber music in Putney, opened its 2016-17 residency season with Third Coast Percussion, a four-man percussion ensemble that has come to Vermont to work on a new soundtrack for the Academy Award-nominated film “Paddle to the Sea” in advance of the premiere at the Cleveland...
Horror filmmaker Hannah Neurotica is almost overwhelmed by how her Ax Wound Film Festival has blossomed in just a year. The first Ax Wound Film Festival had been a bigger success than Neurotica anticipated. “Not only did we sell out but as the day progressed,” she says, “no one ever wanted to leave, and since more kept showing up throughout the day, we finally had to turn people away.” Neurotica is hosting the second annual Ax Wound Film Festival at...
For its annual Halloween production, Shoot the Moon Theater Company will present not one but seven horror stories. In past years, the resident company of Hooker-Dunham Theater in Brattleboro has staged such classic tales of terror as “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” and “Dracula.” This year they are offering “7 by Poe,” stagings of some of the most beloved stories and poems by 19th century American author Edgar Allan Poe. Jennifer Moyse stars in “The Masque of the Red Death”
Julia Thomas, Emma-Kate Guimond and Aisha Sasha John have spent the last year watching hundreds of action movies. That is not to say these women a big fans of the genre. In fact, it is precisely because they have issues with action movies that the three are exploring these films. “I think everyone agrees at action movies are most notoriously oppressive to women of all films around,” says Thomas. “At the same time, there is something compelling about action movies.
