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“For our upcoming concert, we are pulling out all the stops,” says Hugh Keelan, music director of the Windham Orchestra. “With over 150 singers, 75 instrumentalists, and two soloists, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana may just be the biggest thing we have ever done.”
On April 8 and 9, under Keelan’s baton, the Windham Orchestra will be joined by the Blanche Moyse Chorale and singers from Brattleboro Union High School, Bellows Falls Union High School, Leland & Gray Union High School, and two soloists — soprano Kate Saik and tenor Cailin Marcel Manson — to present Carmina! A Concinnity of Choral Community Collaboration!
The centerpiece of these concerts is Carmina Burana, a scenic cantata Keelan calls “a raucous, lusty, joyful, terrifying, gloriously theatrical spectacle.”
Carmina! A Concinnity of Choral Community Collaboration! also features this year’s Windham Orchestra Concerto Competition winners.
A celebrated early music vocal ensemble from Great Britain is coming to Southern Vermont with a new slant on some very old music. On Wednesday, April 13, at the the First Baptist Church on 190 Main St., Stile Antico will perform Sacred or Profane: Exploring Sensual Music Made Spiritual...
Probably since the first paintings started appearing on cave walls, people have argued over art: What is in and what is not? Continuing this age-old discussion, a new exhibit at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center (BMAC) challenges traditional views of fine art. “Visions from the Edge: An Exploration...
“I love a musical challenge,” says saxophonist Michael Zsoldos. That may explain why Zsoldos has painstakingly transcribed the unpublished string arrangement from Ben Webster's “Music for Loving” and “Music with Feeling.” Ralph Burns, Billy Strayhorn, and Johnny Richards created lush string accompaniments for the legendary jazz tenor saxophonist on two albums that Webster made in the mid-1950s. Michael Zsoldos studied these recordings and transcribed the string-writing as a self-prescribed assignment to learn from the masters he wished to emulate. On...
Here's something to consider. How did an American film maker, who mostly makes films that take place in Southern Vermont, end up writing and directing an award-winning film in Stockholm, completely spoken in Swedish by Swedish actors, even though he himself did not speak the language? Robert Fritz, a filmmaker from Newfane, who directed and co-wrote AKT 2 with the film's lead actor Michel Riddez, explains. “AKT 2 came about because while I live in Vermont I have some actor...
Dance 'n Biscuit is a dance show to delight the senses. On Saturday, March 12, at 7:30 p.m., SoBo Studio in Brattleboro will showcase original contemporary dance pieces by local and regional artists. Featuring seven works of contemporary and modern dance, each with different themes and stories, 11 professional artists will perform in a one hour show without intermission. Scheduled to appear are Zombie Nation and the Trumpet Kids, Tara Dance Company, Cyndal Ellis, Toni Nagy, Elora Way, Erika Klemperer,
Karla Baldwin wants to tell everyone about the new play she is directing, Other Desert Cities. But she finds it hard to describe. Her reason is not that the play is too weird or complicated for words. In fact, the play is a fairly traditional drama. “Rather, there is a huge secret that is revealed at the end of the drama that I do not want to reveal,” confesses Baldwin. “If I talk too much about the play, I am...
Visual artist Robert McBride, the founding director of the Rockingham Arts & Museum Project (RAMP), says he does not like to think of Bellows Falls as an artist community. He prefers to see his adopted hometown as a community where artists live. Even if the mission of RAMP may be “to integrate the arts in the long-term sustainability of the community,” McBride does not want to suggest that such a championing of the arts has any hierarchal implications. “I am...
