by David Kelley, Community Journalist GREENSBORO – While many have suspected that the highlands of Greensboro are often visited by fairies and gnomes, especially in the summer, few people had any idea how many would be gathering at the Highland Center for the Arts on Saturday, Aug. 5. Hundreds of[Read More…]
Reviews
Unique Jazz Program Presented by Moyer and Trio
by David K. Rodgers The audience attending the third concert of the Summer Music from Greensboro series on Tuesday evening, August 1, were entertained by a unique program entitled “Classical Jazz” by pianist Fredierick Moyer and his Jazz Trio, with an interesting combination of works by Mozart and Rachmaninoff in[Read More…]
Saxophone Sextet Present High-enegy Performance
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – The second concert in the Summer Music from Greensboro series was held Tuesday, July 25, in the Greensboro Church and featured a sextet of saxophone players with the amusing name of “The Moanin’ Frogs.” The title derives from a combination of two songs in[Read More…]
Manhattan Chamber Players Featured Two Masterpieces
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – Summer Music from Greensboro began its 2023 season with an exceptional performance by the Manhattan Chamber Players on Tuesday evening, July 18, in the Greensboro United Church of Christ. The program featured two clarinet Quintets, each a masterpiece of the chamber music repertoire, written[Read More…]
Egan Prints Highly Original
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – Thom Egan of Walden is having a show of his beautiful color prints at the Greensboro Free Library for the month of July and will be giving a talk about them on July 27, at 2 p.m. In his artist’s statement, he says, “A[Read More…]
Review of a Concert to benefit the Greensboro Nursing Home
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – This past Sunday evening at the Greensboro United Church of Christ, Roy MacNeil, Alice Perron, Mavis MacNeil and Andrew Koehler gave a delightful concert to benefit the Greensboro Nursing Home, with excellent selections from the American Songbook, country-western tunes and the jazz repertoire. All[Read More…]
MacNeil Masters Rare Bach Violin Solos at Barton Concert
by David K. Rodgers BARTON – Roy McNeil of Greensboro gave a concert last Sunday evening at the Barton United Church of Christ, consisting of three works for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), two Partitas and two movements from a Sonata, repeating the program he presented at the[Read More…]
Connelly Photos Show Reality and Abstraction
by David K. Rodgers HARDWICK – Since April there has been a show at the Third Floor Gallery of the Hardwick Inn of some 46 photographs by Ross Connelly, former owner and editor of the Hardwick Gazette with his wife, Susan Jarzyna from 1986 to 2017. As he writes in[Read More…]
Robinson’s Paintings, Sculptures Delightful and Original
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – Speculative Realism is the enigmatic title of the current show at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro of paintings and sculptures by Montpelier artist, Delia Robertson. But the subtitle of this amazing exhibition, “Visions illuminated, Stories told, Colors rich, Meanings unexpected,” begins[Read More…]
“Farm Boy” by George Woodard, now Touring Vermont
by David K. Rodgers “Farm Boy”, a new feature-length film by George Woodard, is now being shown at various locations around Vermont including The Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro on May 21. Woodard, a dairy farmer in Waterbury Center, has been working on it for almost six years;[Read More…]
Halcyon Chorale Presents Program from Variety of Traditions
by David K. Rodgers GREENSBORO – Last summer a new singing group came together in the St. Johnsbury area forming the Halcyon Chorale, with 16 members dedicated to presenting the best classical music repertoire. This past weekend they gave their initial concerts at the South Congregational Church in St. Johnsbury[Read More…]
