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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. Audience members were led to seats spaced six feet apart. But the payoff was hearing those nuances of interpretation and volume that virtual mediums never quite capture. As masks fall away and the weather warms, classical musicians schedules are filling up with live gigs, and festivals are reviving their summer seasons. There s even a new concert series in a Jericho barn. With so many performances cropping up as the state lifts its pandemic restrictions, the following list is only a sample
The Champlain Trio, from left: Letitia Quante, Emily Taubl and Hiromi Fukuda Six pandemic-endangered performance venues are the settings for Empty Stages: Performances and Stories of Resilience, a mini-documentary series created earlier this year by Vermont filmmaker Jay Craven. The riveting performers on those stages are the members of the Champlain Trio, a year-old Vermont chamber group. In one moment that occurs in the final episode, pianist Hiromi Fukuda, seen in profile, cuts a glance toward cellist Emily Taubl and violinist Letitia Quante. They re playing the second movement of Felix Mendelssohn s Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor. As the music slows, all three musicians, absorbed in the emotion of the piece, move in unison toward the next phrase.
Elizabeth Chang Earlier this month, UMass professor of violin Elizabeth Chang released her new CD, “ Transformations ,” on Albany Records. The release features works by Leon Kirchner; Roger Sessions; and Arnold Schoenberg; and is rooted in the cross-generational connections between Chang and these composers. The CD was produced, engineered and mastered by Adam Abeshouse, a past GRAMMY-winner of Classical Producer of the Year, with David Schneider, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Music at Amherst College, providing the liner notes. While at Harvard, Chang studied under Kirchner, who in turn studied with both Sessions and Schoenberg, two of the most influential composers of the twentieth century. According to Chang, “Both Sessions and Schoenberg were pioneers in seeking a new compositional language in the post-tonal world while being deeply rooted in the Germanic tradition.” She describes Kirchner as having had a “profound artistic and pe
Winston-Salem Symphony perform George Gershwin s Cuban Overture , conducted by Tim Redmond
The Winston-Salem Symphony is highlighting two of its principal musicians in its âCenterStageâ performance now streaming on demand.
This early spring concert featuring Kathryn Levy on flute and Brooks Whitehouse on cello in concertos by Lukas Foss and Edward Elgar will be available through April 13.
âThis season the symphony has put on a variety of concerts â all musical styles from (George) Gershwin songs to (Joseph) Haydn symphonies,â Timothy Redmond, music director of the Winston-Salem Symphony, said. âWe really wanted the opportunity to feature some of our own amazing orchestra members as concerto soloists.