Jim Lowe

6 days ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

It opens with a sudden “crack of the whip” setting off a race between the piccolo and the piano. Next weekend, Allison Cerutti will be the featured soloist when the Vermont Philharmonic performs Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G Major in Randolph and Barre. “I love those big romantic concertos with sweeping lines, like the Rachmaninoff Second, but that’s not really what I do,” she said. “The Ravel is very different from that.

6 days ago | timesargus.com | Jim Lowe

The Mozart Requiem is one of the most beloved of choral works, and when it is performed next weekend in Castleton and Rutland, it will be celebrated with five different choirs, four vocal soloists and full orchestra. “Which is very exciting,” says Sherrill Blodgett, director of choral activities at VTSU Castleton, who is conducting.

2 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

Sunday, for the first time, singers of the Youth Opera Company of Opera Company of Middlebury and instrumentalists of the Vermont Youth Orchestra came together to rehearse their upcoming production, “Dear Diary.”“It was our very first rehearsal with ‘the band,’ and it was just really, really exciting,” explains Sarah Cullins. “I had to sort of pinch myself a little bit and step back and kind of really take stock of what was happening.

2 weeks ago | timesargus.com | Jim Lowe

Sunday, for the first time, singers of the Youth Opera Company of Opera Company of Middlebury and instrumentalists of the Vermont Youth Orchestra came together to rehearse their upcoming production, “Dear Diary.”“It was our very first rehearsal with ‘the band,’ and it was just really, really exciting,” explains Sarah Cullins. “I had to sort of pinch myself a little bit and step back and kind of really take stock of what was happening.

3 weeks ago | rutlandherald.com | Jim Lowe

George Frederic Handel can be considered one of the greatest composers of all time based simply on his “Messiah.” But, in fact, Handel wrote more than 42 oratorios and was something of a superstar in his time. One of them he based on the poetry of John Milton (1608-74).