Holocaust Remembrance Lectures Result of Polish Study Trip GREENSBORO – This past June, Rev. Ed Sunday-Winters of the Greensboro United Church of Christ and Jeff Pierpont of Walden went to Poland on a Holocaust study trip under the auspices of the Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, the Simon Wiesnthal[Read More…]
Reviews
Feurzieg Concert Inspired by Wolcott Chapel
WOLCOTT – Pianist David Feurzieg has an admirable goal: to play a concert in every town in Vermont (253 total) and generously donate the proceeds to local environmental organizations. Already he has visited 60 towns, and the contributions of the concert he gave on Saturday afternoon, July 20, in Wolcott,[Read More…]
Chamber Players Concert Resonates with Sophisticated Audience
GREENSBORO – The second concert of the Summer Music from Greensboro series saw a return from last year’s season of the very popular Manhattan Chamber Players, with a program of three relatively short pieces by Mozart spanning his life and then a monumental “String Quartet in C Major” by Schubert,[Read More…]
Quartet Definitely Something Different
GREENSBORO – The Texas Guitar Quartet was definitely something different as a chamber music group in the second concert of the Summer Music from Greensboro season, held July 16 at the Greensboro United Church of Christ. The quartet played a variety of well-conceived transcriptions of familiar classical works, mostly scored[Read More…]
Accomplished, Convincing Acting in “Much Ado”
EAST CALAIS – William Shakespeare (1564-1616) wrote almost an equal number of comedies, histories and tragedies, all populated by vivid characters of his creative imagination. In “Much Ado About Nothing,” now playing at the Unadilla Theater in East Calais, a plot veering towards tragedy is transformed at the last moment[Read More…]
“Uncle Vanya” Mixture of Comedy and Tragedy at Unadilla
Anton Chekov (1860-1904) wrote the initial version of “Uncle Vanya” in 1888-9, revised it in subsequent years, but it was not successfully staged until 1899. A classic psychological exploration of an extended middle class family on a rural estate in Russia, the play transcends its time to become universal in[Read More…]
Quartet Plays with Intensity, Passion
GREENSBORO – The first concert of the season in the Summer Music from Greensboro series took place Tuesday, July 9, at the Greensboro United Church of Christ, featuring the Telegraph Quartet from San Francisco, the fourth time the group has been invited. Founded 10 years ago, the group consists of[Read More…]
Exemplary Cast, Strong Voices, Excellent Actors in “The Mikado”
The first production at the Unadilla Theatre in East Calais this summer season is “The Mikado” by William Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, a masterful comic operetta whose witty lyrics and always engaging melodies continue to entertain audiences ever since its debut in 1885. Mary Jane Austin as music director and[Read More…]
White Water Gallery Exhibits Brehm’s Fiber Sculpture
EAST HARDWICK – Hosted at James Teuscher’s White Water Gallery on Main Street in East Hardwick, the exhibit of Lian Brehm’s work includes a display of her unique and colorful sculptures that resemble the flowering cacti of Mexico. Brehm uses a process that she developed, her own hand-made paper and[Read More…]
“I Can’t Not Paint”
STANNARD – Richard Foster paints because he can’t not paint, he says. He creates because he has to create. Foster enjoys the entire creative process, from preparing the substrate, to building up texture beneath the pastels that are his preferred medium in recent years. That, and even the woodworking involved[Read More…]
Mermin Discusses New Book at Town House
HARDWICK – Rob Mermin, the founder of Circus Smirkus, has just published a new book, “Circle of Sawdust, A Circus Memoir of Mud, Myth Mirth, Mayhem and Magic,” and on the evening of June 11, he gave a talk about it to an enthusiastic audience at the Hardwick Town House,[Read More…]
Familiar Plot, Imaginary Journey in Excellent Production
GREENSBORO – The Hazen Union Drama Club presented a lively version of “The Wizard of Oz” on May 16, 17 and 18 at the Highland Center for the Arts, with a large cast of some three dozen students in a wide range of ages (not to mention a dog). Usually[Read More…]
