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Sometimes just as everything seems over, it turns out to be simply a new beginning.
When Robert Merfeld was finally diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he had to face up to his growing suspicion that his career as a pianist was coming to an end.
Keith Murphy - Brattleboro resident, founder of the Northern Roots Festival and renowned multi-instrumentalist - is joining Childsplay on their final farewell tour, with several tour dates across the Pacific Northwest before concluding in Somerville, Mass., on the eve of the release of their seventh and final album, The...
Everyone's favorite monster is coming to Brattleboro this Halloween season. For its annual Halloween Spectacular at the Hooker-Dunham Theater in downtown Brattleboro beginning Oct. 18, Shoot the Moon Theater Company will present Frankenstein. But which Frankenstein? As aficionados (and who isn't) know, there are many versions of this classic...
Danny Lichtenfeld, Director of the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, thinks the museum's new photography exhibit is something special. “Of course, I feel in one way or another that all the shows at BMAC are special, but “If She Has A Pulse, She Has A Chance” is engaging the community in a way that is rare for the museum,” Lichtenfeld says. In the Center Gallery of BMAC, “If She Has A Pulse, She Has A Chance” is a series of...
As he prepares to present one of the most daunting operas in the Italian repertoire - Giacomo Puccini's Turandot - Huge Keelan, conductor of the Windham Orchestra, reflects on the undertaking. “We're insane,” he says. With its huge cast and orchestra as well as exotic locale, Turandot is grand opera at its grandest. Set in ancient China, the opera deals with passion and vengeance. Prince Calaf loves the cold Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has...
What are the consequences of obsessing over a dream in order to leave a legacy? Brattleboro-based filmmaker Angela Snow considers this question in her newest documentary, Mortality of Dreams, about a passionate, 81-year-old retired cardiologist who attempts to construct a hospital in Peru in memory of his mother. “Dr. Luis Vasquez dreams of a state-of-the-art and volunteer-run hospital which will provide health care for all,” Snow says. “The catch? It will be over 600 miles from Lima, in his mother's...
Did you ever wonder what it would be like to slowly lose your mind? That's exactly what the innovative new play opening this week in West Chesterfield, N.H., is trying to dramatize. Actors Theatre Playhouse presents Florian Zeller's The Father in its regional premiere for eight performances only on Fridays and Saturdays from Sept. 21 through Oct. 13, at 7:30 p.m. An internationally acclaimed and theatrically thrilling work, The Father is a moving portrayal of Andre, an elderly man suffering...
Part of the mission of Juno Orchestra, Vermont's newest chamber orchestra, is to present soloists who were raised in the region around Brattleboro. “One of Juno's clearest goals is a commitment to featuring soloists at work in the musical world, but who grew up and received formative training in this area,” says Zon Eastes, Juno's founder and music director. For the concert opening its second season, Juno will feature oboist and Vermonter Jennifer Slowik, who received her earliest musical training...
