STOWE – The Front Four Gallery in Stowe is having a significant exhibition entitled Inner Landscapes: Discovering the Lifework of Peter Heller (1927-2002) which is a retrospective of over thirty of his paintings and drawings, along with intriguing sculptures by his wife Alexandra Noble Heller (1932-2024). Peter taught art at[Read More…]
Reviews
Final seasonal concert features thirty-piece orchestra
GREENSBORO – The final concert of this summer’s Caspian Music season was held on Sunday evening, August 24, at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro. The thirty-piece Caspian Chamber Orchestra was skillfully conducted by Paul McShee, and two works featured soprano Andrea Nalywajko, an early Mendelssohn violin concerto[Read More…]
Historian tells East Craftsbury library history
EAST CRAFTSBURY – Polly Seddon Allen, a consulting architectural historian, gave a very informative talk about the history of the John Woodruff Simpson Memorial Library in East Craftsbury, entitled “From a General Store to a Community Library,” Monday evening, August 15, at the library. The library is celebrating its century[Read More…]
Cécilia, Quebec music trio, presents vibrant concert
GREENSBORO – The Canadian group, Cécilia came to Greensboro at the Highland Center for the Arts on Thursday evening, August 21, and gave a vibrant concert of music spanning the genres of traditional, Celtic, Quebequois and jazz. The trio of pianist Evin Leahy, accordion player Timi Turmel and violinist Louis[Read More…]
Summer Theater Camp presents four comedies
CABOT – The Cabot Community Theater demonstrated the fruits of its week-long summer theater camp by presenting four comedies Friday, Aug. 15, at 5 p.m., in the Cabot School Performing Arts Center. The plays were short and designed for children’s performances, giving everyone a limited number of lines to memorize[Read More…]
Birdhouse Band Comes Together for The Beatles “Abbey Road”
GREENSBORO – “Abbey Road,” the last studio album recorded by The Beatles, offered a creative outlet for the many talents of the Birdhouse Band and its guests during a sold out show this past Saturday evening at Highland Center for the Arts (HCA). Birdhouse Band’s standard line-up includes Mavis MacNeil[Read More…]
Granddaughters Tell of Craftsbury Couple’s Creative Works
CRAFTSBURY – “The Creative Works of Francis Colburn and Gladys LaFlamme: was the title of a fascinating talk by granddaughters Adriane Colburn and Celine Colburn given at the Craftsbury Public Library late Friday afternoon, August 1. For some 50 years, the family were regular summer residents at their log cabin[Read More…]
Jazz-lovers Hear Spectacular Concert
GREENSBORO – The Ellington Collective from Boston came to the United Church of Christ last week on Tuesday evening at to give a spectacular concert to a near capacity audience of some 115 jazz lovers. The group played over a dozen pieces by Duke Ellington and his famous orchestra that[Read More…]
Caspian Music Features Works by Hayden, Schumann, Chaussan
GREENSBORO – The first concert in the Caspian Music series, “Dialogues,” was given last Sunday evening at the Highland Center for the Art, having as guest artists the Callisto Quartet. The program contained works by Hayden, Schumann and Chaussan in a string quartet, cannonic exercises and a concerto for violin,[Read More…]
Concert has Interesting Combination of Strings, Vocals
HARDWICK – The fourth concert of the Craftsbury Chamber Players season at the Hardwick Town House had an interesting combination of string and vocal pieces, ranging from Danish folk music going back many centuries to a Mozart String Quartet, lieder by Brahms from the end of the Nineteenth Century and[Read More…]
Feurzeig Plays Greensboro in Concert
GREENSBORO − Composer-pianist David Feurzeig came to the Greensboro United Church of Christ Friday evening, July 18, to give a concert and help support the Greensboro Land Trust. Feurzeig, a professor of music at the University of Vermont has been touring and giving free performances in all Vermont towns, since[Read More…]
Chamber Players Introduce Imaginative Variations
HARDWICK − The third concert of the Craftsbury Chamber Players season took place at the Hardwick Town House last Thursday evening and focused on three Eighteenth- to early Nineteenth-Century composers, namely Mozart, Boccherini and Beethoven. The “Trio in C Major, K.548 for Violin, Cello and Piano” was written in 1788[Read More…]
