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Arts

BMC presents Musicians from Marlboro Group III on Feb. 17

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 — Issue 752

The Brattleboro Music Center's Chamber Series presents Musicians from Marlboro Group III on Saturday, Feb 17.

The 7 p.m. concert at the BMC begins with Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Five Fantasy Pieces for String Quartet or "Fantasiestücke," and concludes with Arnold Schoenberg's "Verklärte Nacht."

The program also includes Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, B. 166, by Antonín Dvořák and Six Bagatelles, Op. 9, by Anton Webern.

Performers include Anna Göckel and Stephanie Zyzak, violin; Jordan Bak and Hsin-Yun Huang, viola; Christopher Richter and Chase Park, cello; and Evren Ozel, piano.

General admission is $30. Tickets may be purchased through bmcvt.org, 802-257-4523, or info@bmcvt.org.

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Scott requests USDA disaster declaration for May freeze that caused heavy crop damage

By
Sarah Mearhoff
Wednesday, June 28, 2023 — Issue 721

Citing “extensive and pervasive” damage to crops, Gov. Phil Scott is requesting that the U.S. Department of Agriculture issue a disaster declaration because temperatures plunged into the low 20s across Vermont for hours in mid-May, freezing vulnerable young buds on thousands of fruits. In a letter sent to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on June 19, Scott described the “debilitating damage” to crops of apples, grapes, blueberries, peaches and other stone fruit across the state. He asked that a...

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Voices

‘The notion that Israel has repeatedly sought peace and its wars are only defensive is baldly baseless’

By
CCM Holland Mills
Tuesday, December 3, 2024 — Issue 793

BRATTLEBORO-It is no exaggeration that the first days of October saw more than one million Lebanese flee in fear of a military onslaught. Disputing this number - well-reported as it happened - is the first of many willful deceits infecting Rhonda Wainshilbaum's reply. The notion that Israel has repeatedly sought peace and its wars are only defensive is baldly baseless as evidenced by its never-ending assassinations, abductions, massacres, incursions, and invasions. At this moment, north of the Netzarim Corridor, nearly...

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Arts

Guyanese-American artist Carl E. Hazlewood discusses BMAC exhibit on June 3

Tuesday, May 27, 2025 — Issue 817

BRATTLEBORO-A diverse body of artwork by Guyanese-American artist Carl E. Hazlewood is currently on view at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC). "Infinite Passage" includes 50 of Hazlewood's mixed-media paintings, drawings, and installations, in which the artist explores themes such as the passage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic and the landscapes and seascapes in Guyana. Hazlewood will discuss the exhibition in an online conversation hosted by BMAC on Tuesday, June 3, at 7 p.m. He will be joined...

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