MUSIC LOVERS AND LEAF PEEPERS TAKE NOTE!

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MUSIC LOVERS AND LEAF PEEPERS TAKE NOTE!
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Tours with 20th Annual Made in Vermont Music Festival

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The Vermont Symphony Orchestra begins its annual fall tour on September 20th continuing through September 30th presenting in eight towns and villages across Vermont. This tour marks the 20th anniversary of the musical festival that offers brilliant orchestral music to go along with Vermont’s colorful foliage season.

Albert Brouwer, flute, Nancy Dimock, oboe and Janet Polk, bassoon, VSO’s extraordinary principal players will share the spotlight in music of Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart. Music Director Jaime Laredo conducts, and solos as well. The program also includes the latest in the VSO’s growing library of new music by Vermont composers, a commission by Andrew Massey called “Vermont Spring.” “I am really looking forward to Made in Vermont. Playing Bach with Jaime is thrilling, and I love traveling around the state performing in the small opera houses. The audiences are wonderful and the leaf show in the fall is spectacular,” commented Nancy Dimock, principal oboist.

The VSO received grant funding in support of the Made in Vermont Music Festival from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council and the Vermont Community Foundation. Th e statewide tour is generously co-sponsored by the Vermont State Colleges and Merchants Bank. Additional individual concert support is provided by Passumpsic Financial Advisors, Columbia Forest Products, Universal Marketing Group, and Hubbardton Forge.


Alan Jordan, Executive Director of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, said, “For the past twenty seasons, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra has traveled to smaller communities across the state during foliage season, sharing the joy and enrichment of live classical music with Vermonters in their rural town meeting spaces. Nothing else that we do embodies the VSO's mission of statewide service more than our ‘Made in Vermont Music Festival’ tour, and Jaime Laredo and the Orchestra look forward to our performances in Johnson, Vergennes, Derby Line, Lyndonville, Bellows Falls, Randolph, St. Albans, and Castleton.”

Made in Vermont Music Festival Statewide Tour
Jaime Laredo, violin and conductor
Albert Brouwer, flute; Nancy Dimock, oboe; Janet Polk, bassoon

BACH Double Concerto for Oboe and Violin
BURRILL PHILLIPS Concertpiece for Bassoon and Strings
VIVALDI La Tempesta di Mare
ANDREW MASSEY Vermont Spring (World Premiere Commission)
MOZART Concerto No. 2 for Flute and Orchestra

September 20, 7:30 pm Johnson State College Johnson
September 21, 7:30 pm Vergennes Opera House Vergennes
September 22, 4:00 pm Haskell Opera House Derby Line
September 26, 7:30 pm Lyndon State College Lyndonville
September 27, 7:30 pm Bellows Falls Opera House Bellows Falls
September 28, 7:30 pm Chandler Music Hall Randolph
September 29, 3:00 pm BFA Performing Arts Center St. Albans
September 30, 7:00 pm Castleton State College Castleton

Tickets are available at the Flynn Regional box office, www.flynntix.org: adults-$27, seniors-$23, VSC faculty/staff-$14 and students/VSC students- $10/6.

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is the only statewide orchestra providing live musical experiences for listeners in Vermont. It is a state-supported non-profit institution founded in 1935 and exists for the purpose of fostering and encouraging the appreciation of music in all its various forms, with emphasis on orchestral, choral and chamber music.

If you would like more information or would like to schedule an interviews with musicians please contact Amy Caldwell at (802) 864-5741 ext. 16 or amy@vso.org.