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Beginning this season, Jonathan Biss joins Mitsuko Uchida as co-artistic director of Marlboro Music.
Biss says it feels “wonderful” to pick up the reins at Marlboro.
This summer, Yellow Barn celebrates five decades of extraordinary chamber music. One of the world's most highly regarded chamber music centers, this venerable institution remains deeply rooted in Vermont and will celebrate its 50th Anniversary at home in Putney. Its annual festival runs from July 5 to Aug. 3,
Actor Jon Mack believes that sometimes a performance of a play, even if it is performed word-for-word as originally written, need not completely adhere to the intentions of the author. Take, for instance, the new production of David Mamet's Oleanna, which the Rock River Players will present on two...
In recognition of National Poetry Month, Landmark College will present a poetry performance on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m., entitled “My Body, My Country,” with Desmond Peeples, Shanta Lee Gander, and featured poet U-Melani Mhlaba-Adebo. Mhlaba-Adebo describes herself as a “Leominister, Massachusetts born, Zimbabwean-American grown” poet, author, actress, singer and educator. She has performed nationally and internationally in Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Portugal, and Ireland. Her poetry collection, Soul Psalms, published by She Writes Press, has been characterized by...
As she prepares for her performances of Bob Chilcott's St. John Passion, Susan Dedell has had misgivings about whether she should even be presenting the piece in the first place. Her concerns are not with Chilcott's music, which she thinks “glorious,” but with the ecclesiastical text itself. “I have conflicting emotions about the passion narrative by St. John,” Dedell says. “The text was written four centuries after the death of Christ, and has a different flow than the other gospels.
“I like solving problems,” says Vermont businessman Robert Johnson. His latest conundrum is what to do with a white elephant of a church in downtown Brattleboro. Under Johnson's initiative, the First Baptist Church on Main Street is undergoing a major renovation that will transform the site into Epsilon Spires, a center for the arts that will be opening later this year. “With its Estey organ, double balcony, and exemplary acoustics, this historic church building has served the town as a...
As part of its latest artist residency, Yellow Barn in Putney welcomes eight newcomers who have created Salon Séance, an immersive and interdisciplinary experience. Salon Séance is a concept concert which brings together an actor (who channels a composer from the past) with musicians performing curated repertoire, bringing together the composer, the performer, and the audience in the same room. Salon Séance has won several awards, including Tarisio's Young Artists Grants and the Britten Pears Foundation's Britten Award for its...
In a historic moment for two venerable Southern Vermont institutions, Marlboro Music and Marlboro College have agreed on a new 99-year lease. This ensures that, for generations to come, Marlboro Music will remain on the beautiful, 500-acre campus that has been its only home since its inception in 1951. “This new lease codifies an already strong relationship, and gives us stability for a century to come,” Marlboro Music manager Philip Maneval said in a news release. “Having Marlboro Music on...
