Salon on the World Premier of powerful "Requiem for Animals"

Salon is designed to be a panel discussion including: conductor Jonathan Harvey, composer Keane Southard, animal ethics scholar Jules Gibson, and members of the Brattleboro concert Choir.  Two Brattleboro Concert Choir concerts to follow: Saturday May 17 @ 7 pmSunday, M......More

Salon is designed to be a panel discussion including: conductor Jonathan Harvey, composer Keane Southard, animal ethics scholar Jules Gibson, and members of the Brattleboro concert Choir.  Two Brattleboro Concert Choir concerts to follow: Saturday May 17 @ 7 pmSunday, May 18 @ 4 pm

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Sarasa Ensemble: The Muse

The Sarasa Ensemble will present a program of works inspired by the written word. Writers Charles Baudelaire, Yukio Mishima and Anna Akhmatova all pushed the boundaries of their respective eras and countries with their writings, and 20th-century composers Henri Pousseur......More

The Sarasa Ensemble will present a program of works inspired by the written word. Writers Charles Baudelaire, Yukio Mishima and Anna Akhmatova all pushed the boundaries of their respective eras and countries with their writings, and 20th-century composers Henri Pousseur, Philip Glass and John Tavener brought their poetry and spirits alive in music for soprano and strings. In addition, Sarasa will explore string quartets by two prolific female composers who, though extremely talented and highly regarded in their day, have only recently been brought back to the concert stage: 19th-century German composer Emilie Mayer, a contemporary of Robert and Clara Schumann, and 20th-century American composer Florence Price, a contemporary of George Gershwin. Performing will be Mara Reilly, soprano Elise Kuder, Amy Galluzzo, violins Mike Kelley, viola and Jennifer Morsches and Timothy Merton, cellos. Kelley and Kuder are members of the Apple Hill String Quartet, based in E. Sullivan, NH and attended Apple Hill Chamber Music Festival as teenagers in the late 1980’s and 1990’s along with Morsches. The Sarasa Ensemble is a collective of extraordinary international instrumentalists and vocalists who perform classical music of outstanding quality, spanning the 17th to the 21st centuries, on both period and modern instruments, and bring this music to diverse communities.

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Brattleboro Concert Choir: Requiem for Animals

The Brattleboro Concert Choir presents the world premiere of a new work, “Requiem for Animals,” Saturday, May 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro. Directed by Jonathan Harvey, this work for chorus and orchestra by Brattleboro re......More

The Brattleboro Concert Choir presents the world premiere of a new work, “Requiem for Animals,” Saturday, May 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro. Directed by Jonathan Harvey, this work for chorus and orchestra by Brattleboro resident Keane Southard uses the emotional power of music to lament the loss of animal life, to feel its magnitude, and to reconsider humankind’s role in this suffering and how it affects both the animals and ourselves. As Southard explains, “Many composers, like Mozart, Verdi, and Faure, have created beautiful requiems to commemorate the dead, but these have always been for human life.  With the massive loss of animal life that happens every day on our planet, especially of wildlife and farmed animals, I thought it was certainly time that animals were memorialized in a requiem as well.” Southard’s music includes the words of J. Howard Moore, Upton Sinclair, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and the Roman Catholic Latin Requiem text. “This is an exciting opportunity for the Concert Choir to bring a vibrant and thought-provoking piece of music to the world for the very first time,” says Harvey. “There’s nothing like a world premiere, and we are lucky to have been able to commission this work through the Brattleboro Music Center.” “Requiem for Animals” speaks powerfully and compellingly to the world today. “There are moments of profound sadness, as the piece asks us to consider the sheer number of animals that the industrial meat industry kills, or the long list of species that have been lost to extinction, often as a result of human action or inaction,” Harvey explains. “Throughout the work, a sobering question repeatedly emerges: what is our responsibility to speak for the voiceless, to advocate for those who are considered less than, whether they are animal or human?“

Persons Auditorium, Marlboro VT

Brattleboro Concert Choir: Requiem for Animals

The Brattleboro Concert Choir presents the world premiere of a new work, “Requiem for Animals,” Saturday, May 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro. Directed by Jonathan Harvey, this work for chorus and orchestra by Brattleboro re......More

The Brattleboro Concert Choir presents the world premiere of a new work, “Requiem for Animals,” Saturday, May 17, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, May 18, at 4 p.m. at Persons Auditorium in Marlboro. Directed by Jonathan Harvey, this work for chorus and orchestra by Brattleboro resident Keane Southard uses the emotional power of music to lament the loss of animal life, to feel its magnitude, and to reconsider humankind’s role in this suffering and how it affects both the animals and ourselves. As Southard explains, “Many composers, like Mozart, Verdi, and Faure, have created beautiful requiems to commemorate the dead, but these have always been for human life.  With the massive loss of animal life that happens every day on our planet, especially of wildlife and farmed animals, I thought it was certainly time that animals were memorialized in a requiem as well.” Southard’s music includes the words of J. Howard Moore, Upton Sinclair, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, and the Roman Catholic Latin Requiem text. “This is an exciting opportunity for the Concert Choir to bring a vibrant and thought-provoking piece of music to the world for the very first time,” says Harvey. “There’s nothing like a world premiere, and we are lucky to have been able to commission this work through the Brattleboro Music Center.” “Requiem for Animals” speaks powerfully and compellingly to the world today. “There are moments of profound sadness, as the piece asks us to consider the sheer number of animals that the industrial meat industry kills, or the long list of species that have been lost to extinction, often as a result of human action or inaction,” Harvey explains. “Throughout the work, a sobering question repeatedly emerges: what is our responsibility to speak for the voiceless, to advocate for those who are considered less than, whether they are animal or human?“

Persons Auditorium, Marlboro VT

Holiday, May 26

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Student Ensembles Concert

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Student Recital I

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Juventas New Music Ensemble: Sounds of New England

Boston-based Juventas New Music Ensemble presents “Sounds of New England,” a program of music inspired by natural places in each of the five New England States. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the lighthouses of Rhode Island, this concert offers a musical t......More

Boston-based Juventas New Music Ensemble presents “Sounds of New England,” a program of music inspired by natural places in each of the five New England States. From the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the lighthouses of Rhode Island, this concert offers a musical tour through the places we call home.       Stacy Garrop, Beacon of the BayOliver Caplan, In the Direction of DreamsRachel Panitch, Sand & SnowJason Cain, Granite Peaks at SunsetGwyneth Walker, Craftsbury Trio Celine Ferro, clarinetRyan Shannon, violinMatthew Smith, celloJulia Scott Carey, piano Friday, May 30 at 7:00 pmBrattleboro Music Center Tickets:General Admission$20 In Advance, $25 at the Door

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Spring Semester Make-Up Week

Discuss with your instructor whether you need to make up a lesson from the semester.

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Faculty Concert: Music of Beethoven

Solo pianist Bruce Griffin performs Beethoven! Sunday, June 1, 3:00 PMBMC Tickets:General – $20 in advance, $25 at the door

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States

Ensembles Concert I

Brattleboro Music Center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States