Richard Henke
Duet will pair a historic organ with a digital Mellotron
Composer and digital Mellotronist Ross Goldstein fashions himself an amateur.
This might seem odd, as Goldstein has been an active musician for more than 20 years and Birdwatcher Records has produced four albums of his music, including his most recent, Timoka, a new cinematic instrumental work that will be released on Jan. 31.
‘One of the most loved — and hated — instruments of all time’
A temperamental and groundbreaking instrument, the Mellotron makes a comeback, ‘warts and all’
What exactly is a Mellotron? According to a 2005 article from Today's Engineer by Kim Breitfelder, the electromechanical musical keyboard instrument was based on a 1946 invention by American inventor Henry Chamberlain. “Outside, it looked like an ordinary electronic organ. Inside, however, were 35 separate tape players, each equipped...
Art in a new light
Years of work pay off for Mitchell-Giddings gallery as Main Street stalwart moves upstairs to space its owners have long sought
Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts is moving on up. Literally. After more than five years down below Candle in the Night, this gallery of contemporary art has moved to its renovated space upstairs in the same building at 181 Main St. Mitchell-Giddings Fine Arts features innovative works by mid-career and established...
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A not-so-overnight success
Local author and naturalist Sarah Cooper-Ellis would be the first to admit that she couldn't have done it alone. Her first novel, Landing, forthcoming this month from Levellers Press, is a late-life love story set in Vermont against the backdrop of small-town gossip and family intrigue. Although Cooper-Ellis has been writing most of her life, she would never have had the courage to finish and publish this book without the support of many writer colleagues. “When, after my first husband...
Anatomy of an epidemic
Award-winning author David Blistein doesn't consider his upcoming presentation at Next Stage so much a reading as a community conversation about the local opioid crisis. On Thursday, Dec. 5, at 7:30 p.m., Next Stage Arts Project will host Blistein, who will be reading from his new book Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned Our World, which tells the extraordinary and at times harrowing tale of how we arrived at today's crisis. “I will read a fairly short excerpt...
Strength in numbers
Ever since Windham Art Gallery closed shortly after she moved to Vermont almost two decades ago, painter Kay Curtis had been regretting that there was no longer a cooperative for art in Brattleboro. Of course, she knew that to start one up would be a huge job. “So I waited for 20 years,” she confessed. Then, suddenly, in September, Curtis got tired of waiting and declared, with the fervor of one on a mission, “I'm just going to do this...
Out of time
Cellist David Eggert of Lassus Quartett hopes his audience will be receptive to a challenging program of music that his chamber ensemble will present through Yellow Barn. “You never can tell with people,” he says. “Some want to hear what they are familiar with, and others are eager to be taken to new places.” As Yellow Barn continues its 2019-2020 residency series, Lassus Quartett will perform Tuesday, Nov. 12, at 4 p.m., at The Putney School's Currier Center, two monumental...
Anatomy of a nightmare
Joshua Moyse has stitched together the stuff of nightmares to conjure up a strange and scary evening of theater. For its fourth annual Halloween spectacular, Shoot the Moon, the theater company-in-residence at Hooker-Dunham Theater & Gallery, pays homage to the horror anthology genre with American Gothic: An Anthology of Terrifying Tales. Moyse's script for American Gothic is “in the tradition of CreepShow, Twilight Zone: The Movie, and Black Mirror, where thrills and chills are delivered in sudden bursts designed to...