Annie Landenberger
On Potash Hill, a place for shared musical discovery
MARLBORO-In 2009, Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker that Marlboro Music is "the classical world's most coveted retreat," nestled in the rural, pastoral nook known as Potash Hill.
In a 1975 New York Times feature, Rudolf Serkin, a renowned pianist and the cofounder and director of Marlboro Music until 1991, called the festival "a community of artists."...
Creative vision
Two conferences and a new planning grant take a deep dive into the importance of art in creating a vibrant and prosperous state
In so many aspects of Vermont living, the arts - photography, ceramics, woodworking, printing, dance, circus, fine art, theater, puppetry, literary arts, and music from classical to jazz to eclectic - figure in. The greater Brattleboro area itself is a microcosm of the Vermont scene with its high concentration...
Letting the audience make the metaphor
Shakespeare in the Park returns with Vermont Theatre Company’s production of ‘Julius Caesar’
BRATTLEBORO-William Shakespeare's words, stories, characters, and themes can bear meaning in any age; thus, after a five-year hiatus, the Vermont Theatre Company (VTC) is reviving a 30-year tradition of presenting Shakespeare in the Park. This weekend in Brattleboro's Living Memorial Park, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is offered, chosen...
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‘All of this is bearing fruit’
BRATTLEBORO-Always a special home-team event at the Vermont Jazz Center (VJC), this year's performance of the Eugene Uman Convergence Project on June 15 [story, this issue] will be even more so. On that night, Eugene Uman, VJC musical and artistic director, and Elsa Borrero, operations manager, graphic designer, and consultant in multimedia production, will be granted a 2024 Jazz Journalists Association (JJA) Jazz Heroes Award. Among a class of 33 "activists, advocates, altruists, aiders and abettors of jazz" (jjajazzawards.org) that...
Hooking the audience
WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-Lights up in West Chesterfield: Actors Theatre Playhouse (ATP) opens its 49th season with the 14th annual Ten-Minute Play Festival. To whet the appetite, an ATP press release asks: What happens when... • A young movie buff, raised on the classics, must face the music (and a little advice)?• Olivia answers the door armed only with angst and preconceptions: Will she get religion?• The neighbor's philosophy is 'Build a wall'?• A desperate woman heeds a rancher's warning?• Exposure...
‘An essential part of who we are’
WILLIAMSVILLE-That a village of only a few hundred people has sustained its own theater group for nearly nine years is pretty impressive; that it keeps going and growing is a testament to its tenacity - and to the vision, stance, and openheartedness of its leadership. Since its founding in 2015, the Rock River Players (RRP), with co–artistic directors Bahman Mahdavi and Amy Donahue, has offered comedies and dramas, new works and old chestnuts, a musical, many cabarets, improvisation workshops, and...
The need to run comes from within
BRATTLEBORO-Brad Fawley has published his dream book - the story of his own dream to become an Olympic runner, a dream he back-burnered years ago. Through his debut novel, The Frontrunner, though, Fawley takes the dream to the finish line as protagonist Russ Clayton beats upbringing, circumstance, and the odds to win - not only the gold, but also an indelible sense of self. The local launch of Fawley's book, published by Green Writers Press, will take place Saturday, June...
‘We keep it fresh’
PUTNEY-Twenty shows - one per week - strikingly diverse and all outdoors. That's what the Next Stage Bandwagon Series offers again this summer. Next Stage Arts Project Executive Director Keith Marks promises this summer's offerings will surpass last year's record-breaker program for attendance and reach. A Covid-driven idea, the Bandwagon Series began as a way to keep the Putney-based producing venue going during the pandemic shutdown, by providing a way to bring people of all ages together safely for music...