GREENSBORO – A community concert, part of the “Play Every Town Series,” will be presented Friday, July 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Greensboro United Church. The concert features featuring pianist David Feurzeig with violinist Laila Kromash.
In 2022 composer-pianist David Feurzeig embarked on “Play Every Town”: 252 free concerts in each of Vermont’s 252 towns to confront climate change through the power of community and music. With this project Feurzeig will become the first musician to perform in every Vermont municipality. He is traveling in his solar-charged electric vehicle throughout the state, offering free concerts to bring attention to the interrelated issues of climate and community, and to call into question the normality of long-distance touring and travel, while bringing the joy of music to his audiences.
“I want to support Vermont’s local communities with live performance in village centers and downtowns, while fulfilling UVM’s mission to serve as a resource for the whole state.”
Feurzeig, a professor of music at UVM, specializes in recitals that bring together music of a variety of musical styles, from ancient and classical to jazz, avant-garde and popular traditions.
Programs are tailored to each town. The Greensboro concert will include Mozart’s witty variations on “Twinkle Twinkle”, composed in 1781, the year Greensboro was chartered. Chopin’s first nocturne (E minor, op. 72) marks the year the United Church was constructed. 11-year-old Greensboro violinist Laila Kromash will join David for Carl Bohm’s “Perpetuo Mobile” and “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” composed in 1938, the year of Vermont’s hurricane. In a similar spirit, David will play Debussy’s haunting prelude “The Sunken Cathedral,” written in the aftermath of the Great Flood of Paris, in recognition of Vermont’s most prominent climatic threat. Other solo pieces will round out the program, including Franz Liszt’s ode to democracy and resistance to tyranny, “The Chapel of William Tell,” and a once-only performance of a sonata by Scarlatti, in this case “Sonata no. 84” for this 84th concert in the series.
Admission is free, with voluntary donations benefiting the Greensboro Land Trust.
