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VCME 2011/2012 Season

 

This Season, the VCME is proud to feature the art of photographer Paul Dandurand, who lives and works South Burlington, Vermont.

 

 

 

Remembrance of 9/11/2001
10th anniversary tribute
Eleven powerful works written in the weeks following the tragedy at the request of the VCME

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Program

Arise and Unite - Alex Abele
Fuliginous Quadrant - Dennis Báthory-Kitsz
Fractured Landscape, Suspended Song
- Anthony Cornicello
faux pastiche - David Gunn
Three Threshold Songs
- Don Jamison
A Feary Tale
- Dan Jessie
We Must Always Have a Song - Erik Nielsen
Lament 9/11/01
- Troy Peters
A Watch in the Night - Thomas Read
Dust
- Belinda Reynolds
Dark Song - Allen Shawn

Musicians:
Mary Jane Austin - piano
Mary Bonhag - soprano
David Feurzeig - piano
Brian Johnson - percussion
Steven Klimowski - clarinet/bass clarinet

Bonnie Thurber Klimowski - cello
Craig Olzenak - bass clarinet
Thomas Read - violin
Allen Shawn - piano


WHERE & WHEN

Sunday, September 11, 2011
FlynnSpace, Burlington, Vermont
2 Concerts: 2:30 pm & 7:00 pm
T
ickets available at www.flynntix.org or (802) 86-FLYNN

$25 regular; $15 students & seniors

 

Friday, September 9, 2011
Performing Arts Center, BFA St. Albans, Vermont
8:00 pm
Tickets available at the door
$20 regular; $12 students & seniors

The Soldier's Tale

A full production of Igor Stravinsky's
tale of temptation

The Crane Maiden

The premiere of Erik Nielsen's
tale of charity


Director/actor: Ethan Bowen
Conductor: Anne Decker
Dancer/actor: Taryn Noelle
Actors:
Jordan Gullikson
Ruth Wallman

Musicians
Jason Whitcomb - trumpet
Rachael Elliott - bassoon
Brian Johnson - percussion
Steven Klimowski - clarinet
Thomas Read - violin
Lori Salimando-Porter - trombone
Evan Premo - double bass


WHERE & WHEN

Friday, September 23 & Saturday September 24
FlynnSpace, Burlington, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm
Tickets available at www.flynntix.org or (802) 86-FLYNN
$25 regular; $15 students & seniors

 

The concert at Chandler Music Hall has been cancelled due to the havoc caused by hurricane Irene...

but is now rescheduled to take place at the Unitarian Church in Montpelier!! This will be a benefit concert for the victims of the recent flooding.

Sunday, September 25
Unitarian Church, Montpelier, Vermont
Concert 7:30 pm
Tickets available at the door $25 regular; $12 students & seniors

 


Erzsébet
the blood countess saga

an operatic monodrama in 3 acts
by Dennis Báthory-Kitsz

 

WHERE & WHEN

Friday, October 28, 2011
Hyde Park Opera House, Hyde Park, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm

Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $15 financially challenged

 

Saturday, October 29, 2011
Haybarn Theater, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm

Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $15 financially challenged

 

Sunday, October, 30, 2011
Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing, Burlington
Concert: 4:00 pm
Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $15 financially challenged

 

On the Nature of Silence
the poetry of Jean L. Connor
with music composed for it including:

Don Jamison - Waking and Sleeping
Daniel Kessner - Dances
John Mantegna - Prologue and Epilogue
Otto Muller - With Two Grey Stones
Thomas Read - Meridian

PERFORMERS:
Rachael Elliott: Bassoon
Berta Frank: flute
Brian Johnson: percussion
Rebecca Kaufmann: harp
Bonnie Klimowski: cello
Steven Klimowski: clarinet/bass clarinet
Peter Matthews: guitar
Thomas Read: violin


WHERE & WHEN

Friday, February 10, 2012
Unitarian Church, Montpelier, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm

Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $15 students & seniors; $5 for the financially challenged

Alert!! Date/Time Change!
To avoid a serious musical concert conflict we have changed the Burlington concert date. It will be on February 12 at 3:00 (instead of February 11th)

Sunday, February 12, 2012
Black Box Theater, Main Street Landing, Burlington
Concert: 3:00 pm
Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $15 students; $5 for the financially challenged

Directions

 

Spring Fling
a splash of new musical sounds by:

Thomas Read - Chamber Concerto
Alban Berg - Adagio
Vida Chenoweth - Pointillism
Marc Mellits - Tight Sweater


WHERE & WHEN

Friday, March 23, 2012
Unitarian Church, Montpelier, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm
Tickets available at the door only
$25 adults; $12 students & seniors; $5 for the financially challenged


Saturday, March 24, 2012
FlynnSpace, Burlington, Vermont
Concert: 8:00 pm

Tickets available at www.flynntix.org or (802) 86-FLYNN
$25 regular; $12 students & seniors

For more information, contact the
Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble:


Information: (802) 849-6900
clarcell@vcme.org
VERMONT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE
PO Box 67
Fairfax VT 05454-0067

 

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