GREENSBORO − Adrian Ivakhiv came to the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Wednesday evening and gave a fascinating talk, “Ukraine the Climate of War and Peace,” setting that tragic conflict in a more global context that has serious consequences for all of us. He holds the J.S.[Read More…]
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Willey’s, Schoolhouses Featured in Hazen Road Dispatch
GREENSBORO − The yearly edition of The Hazen Road Dispatch, published by the Greensboro Historical Society, is out and available at the museum as well as Willey’s, The Galaxy Bookshop in Hardwick and other locations. This edition covers such wide-ranging topics as the history of The Willey’s Store and the[Read More…]
Chamber Players Present Varied Program, Skillfully Done
HARDWICK − The Craftsbury Chamber Players gave their second concert of the season at the Hardwick Town House last Thursday evening with a program of pieces by French, Romanian, Hungarian and American composers. The first work was by Ernest Chausson (1855-1898), “Chanson perpetuelle,” written in 1899. It is scored for[Read More…]
Two-part Moyer Concert Features Classical, Jazz
GREENSBORO − A quite unusual concert was performed by Frederick Moyer and the Fred Moyer Jazz Trio on Tuesday evening, July 15, as the first in the Summer Music from Greensboro series at the United Church of Christ. The program was divided into two parts, the first with Moyer playing[Read More…]
“Best of Beckett” Features Excellent Cast
EAST CALAIS − The Unadilla Theatre in East Calais began its second offering of the season this past weekend with “The Best of Beckett, An Evening of Short Plays” by Samuel Beckett. Famous for his well-known dramas such as “Waiting For Godot,” this collection of his much briefer works contains[Read More…]
Josiah Dyer Features Beautiful Voice in Generous Concert
GREENSBORO – The Josiah Dyer Band came to the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro Friday and gave a very generous concert of some 30 songs, many of which were original works. This event was in support of a fund raised for Justice for Dogs, a local all volunteer[Read More…]
Chamber Players Feature Works by Hayden, Brahms, Bowen
HARDWICK – The Craftsbury Chamber Players gave its first concert of the summer season in Hardwick at the Town House last Thursday evening, featuring significant works by Haydn and Brahms as well as a less known English composer, Bowen, scored for four, three and two musicians respectively. The “Quartet Op.[Read More…]
“Gondoliers” an Enjoyment of Words, Beautiful Melodies
EAST CALAIS – As usual, the Unadilla Theatre begins its summer season with a Gilbert and Sullivan opera, and this year it is “The Gondoliers,” written in 1889, their twelfth production together. The setting is Venice in the first act and then the Kingdom of Barataria in the second, a[Read More…]
Orchestra Performs Fine Selections, Beautiful Melodies
GREENSBORO – A warm summer’s evening in the 70s, clouds clearing and then that “certain slant of light” of the golden setting sun spreading across the green landscape together with a full symphony orchestra performing a fine selection of beautiful melodies: what a perfect end to a day, nature and[Read More…]
Preston, Friends Present Dynamic Show, Seamless Coordination
GREENSBORO – A truly impressive group of musicians came together with legendary singer-songwriter Leroy Preston for an engaging concert at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro last Saturday evening, all with credentials of performing and recording in their long careers with many nationally famous artists. Preston himself has[Read More…]
Show Evokes Turn-of-the-century Old Music Hall, Vaudeville
GREENSBORO – The Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro was the venue for the Happenstance Theater’s tribute to Vaudeville, “Pocket Moxie,” performed last Friday night. Dressed in turn-of-the-century costumes, the five players evoked the old music hall and variety shows of the traveling troupes that brought light entertainment to[Read More…]
Classic Shakespeare on Stage with Strong Casting
PLAINFIELD – One of William Shakespeare’s most popular plays, “Romeo and Juliet,” is currently being performed on two successive weekends this month at the Haybarn Theatre on the Creative Campus of former Goddard College by the Plainfield Little Theater, imaginatively directed by Tom Blachly. It inaugurates the Green Mountain Shakespeare[Read More…]
