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The Brattleboro Women's Chorus will present their 22nd annual fall concert, “Singing in the Light of Love,” on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. 19, at 4 p.m. at the First Baptist Church on Main Street.
More than 80 women directed by Becky Graber will perform songs of love and songs about music. Cathy Martin will accompany on piano, and the local Ukulele Orchestra led by Lisa McCormick will join on several songs.
Last September, Massachusetts-based artist Denise Beaudet completed a portrait of the recently slain Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres. This was the final painting in a series of 12 large portraits that Beaudet has been working on for the past 10 years, titled The Roots To Resistance. The goal of...
Now in his sixth year as music director of the Windham Orchestra, Hugh Keelan recently sat down with The Commons to talk about his orchestra, its new season, and the joy of making music. “My mission as leader of the Windham Orchestra is nothing less than to keep people...
Now in its fourth year presenting special productions for Halloween, Shoot the Moon usually adapts a scary literary classic for the stage, such as Dracula or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. This year, however, the innovative theater company is instead performing an adaptation of a famous - or rather, infamous - work of science fiction. For the next three weekends - on Fridays and Saturdays Oct. 20, 21, 27, and 28 and Nov. 3 and 4 - Shoot the Moon...
After proving what it was capable of with a series of outstanding productions of familiar American pieces of theater, a fledgling theatrical company in Williamsville is trying something new. From Wednesday, Oct. 11, through Saturday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m., in the Williamsville Hall on Dover Road in Williamsville, Vermont, The Rock River Players will present an original drama, I Used to Have a Cat, written and directed by award-winning filmmaker Robert Fritz. I Used to Have a Cat features...
Beloved regional musician Lisa McCormick recently has added a new role in her efforts to make Southern Vermont a musically brighter place to live: ukulele instructor. McCormick has spearheaded a ukulele explosion in the Brattleboro area by teaching more than 200 local students to play the instrument and boosting a new community spirit focused around love of making music. An established singer/songwriter, McCormick plays guitar and banjo as well as the ukulele, and has made five CDs of her original...
After more than 20 years, Zon Eastes, the former conductor of the Windham Orchestra, Brattleboro's community orchestra, is finally making a dream of his come true: forming a musical ensemble that will play music especially close to his heart. Founded and conducted by Eastes, Juno Orchestra is a newly-established chamber orchestra made up of professional musicians from the area around Brattleboro, including Vermont, New Hampshire, and Western Massachusetts. “I was really thrilled with being able to produce this chamber orchestra,”
Two Windham County artists, composer Paul Dedell and filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer, have teamed up to create a special musical event in association with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. On Friday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m., as part of its annual Made in Vermont Statewide Tour, the orchestra, conducted by Music Director Jaime Laredo, will perform Breath by Dedell at the Latchis Theatre in Brattleboro. This world-premiere will be accompanied by a video specially made for the occasion by Middlebury New Filmmakers...
