Monkton composer, arranger and musician Kyle Saulnier is immediately recognizable: His head is shaved, and he sports a wildly untrimmed salt-and-pepper beard. He manages…
Two chorus and orchestra concerts in the Burlington area this weekend promise to go big, for different reasons. The Green Mountain Mahler Festival performs…
If Vermonters haven't seen Paul Orgel in concert, a rare opportunity comes this Sunday, October 8. The pianist has performed everywhere from the Kennedy…
Vermont's small opera world currently encompasses two professional companies — Barn Opera in Brandon and the Opera Company of Middlebury — and the Youth…
Artists Peter Schumann and Charlie Morrow have built reputations from works set in wide-open spaces. Schumann, the founding impresario of Bread and Puppet Theater,…
This week and next, people who happen to be shopping for chocolate or dishes on the Church Street Marketplace might find themselves suddenly serenaded…
Composers have written for some unusual duos — Elliott Carter for bassoon and viola, for instance, or Camille Saint-Saëns for piano and harmonium. But…
After a three-year search; seven finalists' concerts; and extensive surveys of musicians, audiences and board members, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra finally has a new…
Calling it their "go-big-or-go-home year," Double E Performance Center general manager Jesse Rivers unveiled the lineup for the 2023 Old Stage Summer Concert Series…
In two performances this weekend, the works of composer Erik Nielsen and poet Rajnii Eddins will celebrate the influence of African American artists and…
How much do the unsavory parts of composers' private lives influence how we hear their work? According to Matt LaRocca, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's…
Conductor Anthony Parnther will fly from Los Angeles to Vermont this weekend to lead the Vermont Symphony Orchestra's annual "Holiday Pops" concerts. It's not…
At a recent rehearsal of the Vermont Choral Union at the College Street Congregational Church in Burlington, 39 amateur singers gave their best rendition…
In Hieronymus Bosch's triptych "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (1490-1510), the central panel depicts countless nudes enacting every imaginable fleshly pleasure. Yet something is…
Middlebury composer Matthew Evan Taylor's grandmother, Earnestine Colvin Taylor, had many talents. For instance, she sang while accompanying herself on a spinet piano, both…
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