| Blanche Moyse Centennial Year |
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In the Beginning In 1949, at the invitation of fellow émigrés Rudolf Serkin and Adolf Busch, Blanche Moyse came to Southern Vermont to help establish a music department at Marlboro College and, later, to co-found the world-renowned Marlboro Music Festival.Blanche took up year-round residency in Brattleboro and was astonished to find a town where opportunities for participation and instruction in music-making were all but invisible. In establishing the Brattleboro Music Center in 1952 Blanche sought to create an institution that would "promote the love and understanding of good music through performance and education and make it a vital part of the community." Today Blanche Moyse's legacy might be best expressed by noting the extraordinary number of musicians and artists who now live and work in southeastern Vermont. In the early 1950s Vermont was a state defined by its natural beauty and self-reliant people. Blanche helped expand the definition of who a Vermonter was and created a cultural environment where the amateur and professional speak to each other on a very high level.This season's centennial year events illustrate how the seeds Blanche Moyse planted 57 years ago have matured. Blanche envisioned a music center that would become a vital part of the community. Professional, amateur, and student music-makers have now become an important part of the region's Creative Economy, and give value and character to this extraordinary part of the world we call home. The Moyse legacy will be felt for years to come. 2009-10 Centennial Year Event Highlights |
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