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September 2017
Auditions for BMC Madrigal Singers
Auditions for the BMC Madrigal Singers, under the direction of Doug Frank, will be held for singers interested in joining an adult 12-voice a cappella vocal ensemble. Call the BMC at 802-257-4523 for more information and to schedule an audition. Douglas Frank was trained as a conductor and vocalist at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He founded and directed the Oberlin Madrigal Singers while a student there. He continued his conducting studies with Harold Aks, Daniel Moe, Robert Shaw and…
Find out more »Fall Salon: Mozart’s Cream of the Crop
Moby Pearson (violinist, ensemble coach, and Senior Orchestra conductor) invites you into his home to listen to a vast swath of musical treats from his extensive collection of recordings and perhaps pick up a few new musical perspectives along the way. These salons are held once a month September through December. Topics vary. On Sept. 21, enjoy a sampling of Wolfgang's compositions which transcend all his others -- the string quintets, the piano concertos, and his late operas. Call for…
Find out more »Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour Sept. 22
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Statewide Tour comes to Brattleboro's Latchis Theatre Friday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 pm. This is the Symphony Orchestra's second year performing in the renowned Latchis Theatre. The group considers the stop in Brattleboro to be an essential part of the tour given its artistic footprint and is proud to contribute to the thriving arts community that has become a beacon in the state. Music Director Jaime Laredo leads the VSO in a program…
Find out more »World Premiere of “Dancingmaster of Canterbury” Set for Sept. 23
Next Stage, the Monadnock Folklore Society, and the Brattleboro Music Center present Keith Murphy as Dudley Laufman in the world premiere of "The Dancingmaster of Canterbury." Performances are set for Saturday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. at the Peterborough (NH) Town Hall and Sunday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage, in Putney, VT. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com for $20; the cost is $24 at the door. Lawrence Siegel's musical theater portrait will appeal to fans of traditional…
Find out more »Performance of “Dancingmaster of Canterbury” Set for Sept. 24
Next Stage, the Monadnock Folklore Society, and the Brattleboro Music Center present Keith Murphy as Dudley Laufman in the world premiere of "The Dancingmaster of Canterbury." Performances are set for Saturday, Sept. 23, at 8 p.m. at the Peterborough (NH) Town Hall and Sunday, Sept. 24, at 7 p.m. at Next Stage, in Putney, VT. Tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com for $20; the cost is $24 at the door. Lawrence Siegel's musical theater portrait will appeal to fans of traditional…
Find out more »Juno Orchestra Debuts in First-Ever Public Concert at BMC Auditorium
Juno Orchestra Debuts in First-Ever Public Concert at BMC Auditorium Saturday, Sept. 30, will be a night of firsts, with a performance by the new Juno Orchestra in the first public concert at the Brattleboro Music Center's Auditorium, at its new location. Juno Orchestra is a newly-established chamber orchestra made up of professional musicians from the area around Brattleboro, including musicians from Vermont, New Hampshire, and western Massachusetts. The performance is set for Sept. 30 at 7:30 pm at the…
Find out more »October 2017
Fall Salon: All You Need Is (the) Love (album)!
Moby Pearson (violinist, ensemble coach, and Senior Orchestra conductor) invites you into his home to listen to a vast swath of musical treats from his extensive collection of recordings and perhaps pick up a few new musical perspectives along the way. Once a month September through December. Topics vary. This month, an examination of this masterpiece which is the sound track for Cirque du Soleil's long running "Love" show in Las Vegas. The album contains fascinating layering and remixing of…
Find out more »November 2017
Fall Salon: Transcriptions and Covers, Why Bother?
Moby Pearson (violinist, ensemble coach, and Senior Orchestra conductor) invites you into his home to listen to a vast swath of musical treats from his extensive collection of recordings and perhaps pick up a few new musical perspectives along the way. Once a month September through December. Topics vary This month -- Great pieces and songs stand on their own, yet composers and artists insist on putting their own stamp on them. We'll sample some of these, from Bach to…
Find out more »December 2017
BMC Madrigal Singers Perform “Christmas in Song”
The brand new BMC Madrigal Singers, a select 10-member ensemble led by Brattleboro resident and award-winning madrigal director Douglas Frank, will present its debut concert at the BMC Sunday, December 17, at 2 pm. The Singers will celebrate the 70th anniversary of "Christmas in Song," the wonderfully popular treasury of Christmas songs, hymns and carols first published in 1947. The performance includes holiday tunes and texts from the Middle Ages through the 20th century, featuring beautiful and classic works by beloved…
Find out more »Fall Salon: Final Years, Final Moments
Moby Pearson (violinist, ensemble coach, and Senior Orchestra conductor) invites you into his home to listen to a vast swath of musical treats from his extensive collection of recordings and perhaps pick up a few new musical perspectives along the way. Once a month September through December. Topics vary. This month, a look at the twilight of composers' lives and some wonderful works which were borne of their suffering and imminent demise.
Find out more »April 2018
A Taste of the BMC
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Join us for "A Taste of the BMC" to help support the BMC’s education programs, provide scholarships to students and continue to present outstanding performances by local and world renowned musicians. Don't miss this popular annual event, featuring music, merriment, and a fabulous feast! What's on the menu? A delicious brunch graciously prepared by the chefs at Jack’s Restaurant & Pub located at the Brattleboro Country Club Live music showcasing some of our youngest students to seasoned performers A silent…
Find out more »Jazz Center Solo Piano Fest April 13-14
The Vermont Jazz Center presents its second annual solo jazz piano festival in collaboration with the Brattleboro Music Center. The festival will feature master-classes, panels, learning opportunities and concerts. World-class artists include Kirk Lightsey, Helen Sung, Christian Sands, Harold Danko, and Vermont’s own Joe Davidian and Franz Robert. Tickets and information are available at www.vtjazz.org.
Find out more »Jazz Center Solo Piano Fest April 13-14
The Vermont Jazz Center presents its second annual solo jazz piano festival in collaboration with the Brattleboro Music Center. The festival will feature master-classes, panels, learning opportunities and concerts. World-class artists include Kirk Lightsey, Helen Sung, Christian Sands, Harold Danko, and Vermont’s own Joe Davidian and Franz Robert. Tickets and information are available at www.vtjazz.org.
Find out more »Big Woods Voices Benefit
Big Woods Voices unites four veteran area singers in celebrating their common passion for a cappella harmony: Alan Blood, long-time member of area groups including the Blanche Moyse Chorale, I Cantori, Blue Moon and House Blend; Will Danforth, singer-songwriter, traditional acoustic artist, and the group's arranger/composer; Becky Graber, leader of the Brattleboro Women's Chorus and Animaterra Women's Chorus in Keene; and Amanda Witman, founder and co-leader of the Brattleboro Pub Sing with Tony Barrand. Reveling in vocal harmony, Big Woods…
Find out more »Faculty Recital April 29 Features Works by Beethoven, Thuille and Mendelssohn
The BMC is proud to present a Faculty Recital Sunday, April 29 at 4pm at the BMC Auditorium. Cellist Paul Cohen and pianist Nicholas Burns will play Beethoven's Sonata in F Major for Piano and Cello, Op 5, No.1; Thuille's Sonata in D Minor for Cello and Piano, Op. 22; and Mendelssohn's Sonata in D Major, Op. 58. Tickets for the concert – set Sunday, April 29 at 4pm at the BMC Auditorium – are $30 for patrons, $20 general admission, and…
Find out more »May 2018
Faculty Recital Features Vocal Music by British and American Composers
The BMC presents a Faculty Recital Sunday, May 6, featuring a program of vocal music by British and American composers. Featured performers will be soprano Margery McCrum and tenor Walter Cramer, with Hugh Keelan at the piano. The concert will be held at 4pm in the BMC Auditorium. Tickets are $30 for patrons, $20 general admission, and $10 for students, with BMC students under 18 admitted free. For ticket information, contact the BMC at (802) 257-4523 or visit bmcvt.org. Works…
Find out more »Land of Fish and Seals: Keith Murphy CD Release concert
Local traditional music luminary Keith Murphy presents an evening of traditional and tradition-inspired song at the BMC Sunday, May 13. The 7 pm concert in the BMC Auditorium will showcase material from Murphy’s newest release, Land of Fish and Seals, his third solo recording. Tickets are $15; contact the BMC at (802) 257-4523 or visit bmcvt.org. A highly respected traditional singer, Murphy’s direct and intimate style of singing brings the focus back to the beauty of traditional songs and ballads…
Find out more »June 2018
Juno in June
The Juno Orchestra, Vermont’s newest professional chamber orchestra, presents two concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center, the first Saturday, June 9 at 7:30pm. The soloist is Eric Bartlett on cello, a member of the New York Philharmonic and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The program will include Charles Avison's Concerto Grosso, No. 5; Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2, D Major, with Eric Bartlett on cello; Michael Mauldin's Petroglyph; and Haydn's Symphony 59, A major, The Fire. Tickets are available via the BMC.…
Find out more »Juno in June
The Juno Orchestra, Vermont’s newest professional chamber orchestra, presents two concerts at the Brattleboro Music Center, the second set for Sunday, June 10 at 3pm. The soloist is Eric Bartlett on cello, a member of the New York Philharmonic and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. The program will include Charles Avison's Concerto Grosso, No. 5; Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2, D Major, with Eric Bartlett on cello; Michael Mauldin's Petroglyph; and Haydn's Symphony 59, A major, The Fire. Tickets are available via…
Find out more »Contra Dance with BMC Celtic Classes
Caller Adina Gordon teams up with the BMC Celtic Megaband in an event that is the culmination of the Celtic classes' year of repertoire work on repertoire and a highlight of the traditional music program. All classes will combine to perform together for this year-end contra dance. In an area rich in dance music, organizers say this dance event stands out with a band of 30 strong fiddles, mandolins, flutes and guitars. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for college students, and…
Find out more »Spring Student Orchestras Concert
The Brattleboro Music Center showcases student ensembles with the annual Spring Student Orchestras Concert. The free event is scheduled for Tuesday, June 12, at 7 pm at the BMC, 72 Blanche Moyse Way. The concert represents a finale for the year and will include all levels of student ensembles, including the Tigers Ensemble, the Music in the School beginner and intermediate year programs, the Youth String Ensemble and adult student ensembles, as well as the Brattleboro Area Middle School Strings…
Find out more »BMC Madrigal Singers: Magical Madrigals & More!
The BMC Madrigal Singers present a selection of the greatest hits of love, sex, and popular music that have endured over 400 years. The madrigal is a musical form that originated in Italy during the 1520s. Composers attempted to express the emotion contained in each line – and individual words – of a celebrated poem. By the 1600s, the English Madrigal School of Morley, Weelkes, Bennett, Dering, Wilbye, Farnaby, et al, represented the last of the madrigal composers. They now…
Find out more »July 2018
Expressive Music Therapy Workshop & Concert
This workshop explores the relationship of sound, music and vibration to the body, mind and spirit. The approach centers on the belief that this connection between music/art and healing creates positive change in the individual and in the broader community. The goal is to use music to bring joy, healing, comfort and purpose to individual lives and to help strengthen community connections. Music therapist Dr. Ayla Clark and her colleagues will use the creative process of musical interventions to…
Find out more »September 2018
Marlboro Town Library Benefit Concert: Jonathan Biss
Special benefit concert to support the Marlboro Town Library by pianist Jonathan Biss. Tickets: $50 preferred, $30 general admission
Find out more »In Stile Moderno Returns to the BMC Sept. 21
In Stile Moderno returns to Brattleboro with their new program, Curious and Modern Inventions: Novelties, Oddities, and the Birth of the Baroque, at the BMC. Following up on their acclaimed performance in January, this group of young early music specialists will showcase their energetic and modern take on seventeenth-century music. The concert will be the first of three in the ensemble’s 2018–2019 season, with further performances in February and May 2019 in Brattleboro and Cambridge, MA. Boston-based ensemble In Stile…
Find out more »Juno Orchestra: Two Bachs Plus
The popular orchestra is now in residence at the BMC and returns to the stage with oboist Jennifer Slowik. A second performance is set for Sunday, Sept. 30, at 3pm.
Find out more »Juno Orchestra: Two Bachs Plus
The popular orchestra is now in residence at the BMC and returns to the stage with oboist Jennifer Slowik. A first performance is set for Friday, Sept. 29 at 7:30pm.
Find out more »November 2018
Concert Explores the Music and History of the Mandolin
A concert spotlighting the music and magic of “The American Mandolin” will feature Flynn Cohen and August Watters, who recently played Carnegie Hall. The duo will demonstrate the breadth of mandolin music by performing selections covering 400 years of plucked string compositions and ranging from Classical, folk, and popular styles. The Emmy-winning Watters will also deliver a presentation on the American mandolin tradition, tracing its roots from Italy in the 19th century through Jazz, Bluegrass, and beyond. There will be…
Find out more »February 2019
Juno Orchestra: Senza Zefiri
Juno Orchestra Offers a Special Performance Feb. 10 Don't miss a special performance by the Juno Orchestra Sunday, Feb. 10, at 3 p.m. at the Latchis Theatre, Main Street. Juno Orchestra: Senza Zefiri will feature an expanded number of players, and an arresting string quartet for orchestra with works by Heinrich Ignaz, Franz Biber, Philip Glass, and Antonin Dvořák. Now in residence at the BMC, the Juno Orchestra is Vermont’s newest professional chamber orchestra, engaging musicians from the tri-state area surrounding Brattleboro, Vermont, a small,…
Find out more »Valentine’s Day-Themed Music Salon
The BMC offers a special Valentine’s Day-themed musical salon Wednesday, February 13, at 7 p.m. This evening of sweetness and passion, deceit and heartbreak features works from many composers, and what better way to usher in this lovely holiday? Moby Pearson — violinist, ensemble coach, and orchestra conductor — invites you into his home in Brattleboro to enjoy a vast array of musical treats with other music lovers. Be prepared to pick up new musical perspectives along the way! Refreshments provided and…
Find out more »In Stile Moderno is in the Mood for Love
In Stile Moderno presents The Lily and the Rose: France and England Entwined, at the BMC Saturday, February 16, at 7:30 p.m, This intimate program for voice and lute features songs of love and loss from both sides of the English Channel. Presented with historical pronunciation of French and English and with the group’s signature engaging style, the songs range from bawdy to sublime and from lighthearted to dramatic. Boston-based ensemble In Stile Moderno is dedicated to music of the 17th century,…
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The Brattleboro Music Center relies on volunteers in the community who give generously of their time. We are pleased to honor the following for their help in August through October, 2018: