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Although A Christmas Carol might seem an old chestnut roasting on an open fire, Charles Dickens' iconic holiday novel could hardly be more popular in 2011 - or, according to Peter Gould, more timely.
Several new productions are opening this month in Windham County, including a traditional new production by Gould at New England Youth Theatre in Brattleboro, as well as the saucy sendup, Totally Scrooged!, by comic actor Pickles Reese at Town Hall Auditorium in Grafton.
Gould notes that many versions of A Christmas Carol get performed this time of year all over the world. The piece has been remarkably popular.
Immediately after the novella was written in 1846, it caught the public imagination as few literary works ever do. By the end of the the first year of its publication, more than a dozen productions were staged in London alone.
Although she spent most of her life and now resides in Huntsville, Ala., Jane DeNeefe says that her years living in southern Vermont gave her the confidence to become a writer. The most recent fruit of that self-empowerment is Rocket City Rock and Soul: Huntsville Musicians Remember the 1960s,
When Susan Calabria, the education curator of the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC), takes small groups through the new exhibit, VT Kids Design Glass, she poses three questions to the young students. First, she asks, “What is going on?” Calabria sets enough time aside for children to think...
The concerned family and friends of Marble Arvidson are presenting a benefit concert this Saturday at the Stone Church in Brattleboro to help raise funds and public awareness in the search for the missing teenager. As indicated by the whimsical name for the event - Marble Palooza - they have put the emphasis on hope and fun, presenting a line-up of talented female a cappella singers, some singer-songwriters, blues musicians, and some rock. The concert begins at 6 p.m. As...
Like Cesar Chávez, the labor leader celebrated in a new one-man show, Fred Blanco believes in making people feel uncomfortable. Blanco wants “to force an audience to re-examine their beliefs. Nothing could be greater than if they went home thinking about the ideas in the performance for hours.” From award winning solo-performer Blanco, The Stories of Cesar Chávez comes to Hooker-Dunham Theatre on Thursday, Nov. 3. This dramatic bilingual portrayal of the civil-rights activist and labor leader blends fact and...
Sometimes it takes a force from outside to shake things up - even if what is shook is something as solemn as a church hymn. In this spirit, the First Congregational Church has invited the “Minister of Music” and the lead soprano from All Peoples Christian Church in Los Angeles to lead a workshop on gospel music on Saturday, Oct. 22. It is open to anyone who would care to learn more about singing, no matter their individual beliefs or...
After a musical piece Blanche Honegger Moyse had been rehearsing ended too abruptly, violinist Anne Hooper remembers the Bach conductor exclaiming, “Don't place an ending note like a plate on the table.” Hooper was a longtime member of the Marlboro Bach Festival, which Moyse conducted until she retired in 2004. She recalls Moyse as a master of pithy expression. Arguing for a pure style in performing Bach, Moyse once memorably proclaimed: “Vibrato! It's like lipstick. Some people think they put...
Guilford poet Verandah Porche and singer/songwriter Patty Carpenter have joined forces to create a song about the impact of the flooding caused by Tropical Storm Irene. “Waves in the Wind” is a meditation on the havoc wreaked on the Vermont landscape. But it is also about resilience and hope. Porche and Carpenter will premiere their song Saturday, Sept. 24, at the River Garden on Main Street, where they will be part of 100,000 Poets for Change, a worldwide event described...
