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Gene Marie Callahan, who is only the third artistic director in the groups 29-year history, chose a repertoire all written by living composers.

Great composers like Bach, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Brahms are best known for their mature masterpieces. But they all were composing in their youth — and that music reveals their early

BENNINGTON — Perri Morris has been playing cello for over 60 years. A graduate of Mount Anthony Union High School, Morris has performed in some of the most important music

Vermont Symphony Orchestra concert tent On a Wednesday in mid-May, I entered the Stowe Community Church to see the first live performance of classical music I had experienced in more than a year: Middlebury pianist Diana Fanning playing works by Maurice Ravel, Fédéric Chopin and Franz Schubert. The formidable entrance requirements included emailing an image of my COVID-19 vaccination card to Stowe Performing Arts, which hosted the concert. Audie...

From  When the Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents its second “Music for Days Like This,” online at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 19, it will feature some unlikely ensembles, including VSO percussionists D. Thomas Toner and Nicola Cannizzaro. “Seeing Tom and Nick play a percussion duo is a whole different world than seeing them play the bass drum, the triangle and maybe a cymbal in the symphony,” explains Matt LaRocca, composer and the VSO’s creative projects chairman, who curates the ...