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17 min read Four people aged 19-25 gather on Zoom to discuss their experience of Covid-19. What have they lost – and gained – over the Past 12 months? “I feel like my youth is being wasted … I’ve all this motivation and ambition to do great things and it’s bottling up and manifesting itself as frustration, so that’s been the tricky bit, trying to cope with that.” The pandemic has affected everyone in different ways. For those just starting out in their adult lives, the lost opportunities have been felt acutely. Studies were moved online, travel plans...

For the performing arts in Vermont, 2020 was the year that wasn’t. Yet the COVID-19 pandemic revealed many arts organizations’ ability to redefine themselves — and for others it meant a complete shutdown. January began optimistically with a splendid performance by the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Anne Decker, of Menotti’s Christmas opera, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” at City Hall Arts Center. The Spice on Snow traditional music festival celebrated its 10th year, also in the capital. Vermont Stage, the Burlington professional theater, mounted excel...

Plague Raves, #MeToo, And Doing The Work: A Look Back At Dance Music’s Tumultuous Year By a lot of measures, 2020 was one of the roughest years in dance music history - but there were some silver linings. We missed you too. Sign up to our newsletter, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter, so you always know where to find us. In November, British-Canadian techno lifer Richie Hawtin released an EP called Time Warps. On Bandcamp, the two-track release is described as Hawtin’s first dancefloor-focussed EP since Minus Orange in 1999. The accompanying video for title track ‘Time Warps’ ...

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 VSO’s online programming. If that weren’t unusual enough, VSO cellists John Dunlop, Perri Morris...