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ARTS+LEISURE October 20, 2016
The Addison Independent
Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra's performance this weekend features Middlebury College freshman piano prodigy Gareth Cordery.
Piano man dazzles philharmonic
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he Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra (CPO) kicks off its exciting Fall Concert Series with two performances of Russian Masterworks, directed by guest conductor Matthew LaRocca, on Saturday, Oct. 22, at 7:30 p.m. in Ackley Hall at Green Mountain College in Poultney, and on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 4 p.m. in Robison Hall at the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College. The performances will feature pianist Gareth Cordery, who will perform Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also includes Tchaikovsky’s Capriccio Italien, Borodin’s “Steppes of Central Asia” and “The Montagues and Capulets” from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet.
BY GREG PAHL
Cordery is a talented, emerging young artist who performs on both piano and cello. He started playing cello at the age of four. Several years later, after receiving an electronic keyboard for Christmas from his grandparents, Cordery asked his parents for piano lessons. “Luckily, they agreed,” he says. “I’ve been playing both instruments ever since.” Cordery is currently a freshman at Middlebury College in the piano studio of Professor Diana Fanning. He has performed as a soloist with symphonies in Illinois, North Dakota and Minnesota. He has
also performed in many groups, including the Illinois All-State Orchestras, the Central Illinois Youth Symphony, the Monmouth College Chamber Orchestra, the Knox College String Ensemble, the Maple City Dixieland Jazz Band and the Credo Festival Orchestra. But that’s not all. Cordery has also attended camps at prestigious music schools including Oberlin Conservatory and the Eastman School of Music, and has performed with chamber groups across the United States. He has been active in community groups as well, having served as music director of Grace Episcopal Church in Galesburg, IL, and as drum major of the Monmouth-Roseville Titans Marching Band. But Cordery is not just a talented musician. A recent high school graduate, he was valedictorian of his class, a member of the National Honor Society, and an Illinois State Scholar. At Middlebury, balancing his academic studies with his music can be challenging, but Cordery says it’s not as difficult as it might sound. “Since I am, and will be, taking music-related classes, often the two work together,” he explains. “I find it works quite well for me to schedule practice time for myself as if it’s a class. That way I can force myself to practice regardless of the academic workload at a specific SEE PIANO ON PAGE 13
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Julia Purinton ON EXHIBIT AT EDGEWATER GALLERY ON THE GREEN, MIDDLEBURY
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dgewater Gallery on the Green’s first group exhibition, “Of The Land,” features work from six Vermont artists on view this month. Painter Julia Purinton has shown with the gallery since it opened in 2009. She maintains that she isn’t “strictly a Vermont Artist,” but, she says, “I love spending time in my studio in the Mad River Valley in Vermont, and hope one day to retire there. But it’s more likely that I’ll end up driving around the country in my airstream until I’m in my 90’s and they revoke my license.”
BY ISABEL LOWER
Frequent travel from city to country has given Purinton a steady view of how the New England landscape changes through the year. As she and her husband Tim split their time between Cambridge, Mass., and Warren, Vt., Purinton said, “Our transition comprises a weekly, sometimes twice weekly, commute on route 89, which is a good time to think,” and has made them experts at “assessing peak foliage and winter road conditions.” Like many, Purinton said, they “originally came to Vermont to ski,” but “love our mountainside perch in all seasons.” Even these repetitive drives can become fodder for Purinton’s imaginative scenes, as many who travel similar routes are familiar with the way the blur of green along the highway breaks to reveal a glimpse of hidden roadside places. Of the pieces featured at Edgewater, “Trout Fishing” shows a stand of tall pines, evoked through deep greens and dark sienna, the top
Wistful - 18” x 24” - oil on canvas.
branches gently dressed in golden sunlight. “Winter is Coming” is a seasonally germane view of what are perhaps the first changing trees nestled in the center of a valley, white mist rising from a distant waterway. This piece and another wide vista, “Take a Hike,” are especially redolent of the Hudson River School, in their glowing treatment of an expansive landscape. Purinton has always spent a lot of time moving from place to place, beginning when she was a child and moved “quite a bit, living in Maryland, Tennessee and Delaware, but always returning to my maternal grandparents’ home on the banks of the Potomac River before settling in a small town near Kennett Square in southern Pennsylvania.” All of these places seep into
her paintings, which feature landscapes richly layered from memory and myth in green fairytale forests steeped in aureate light. Purinton came to New England in high school, and then attended Harvard. “My university didn’t have much of a studio art program,” Purinton said. “‘Fine Arts’ referred to Art History, and that’s what I studied.” But this didn’t deter her. “Ever since I was a little girl, I spent most of my free time drawing and painting, and eventually it became impossible for me to pursue any other kind of work.” As a child, Purinton obsessed over fairytales, transposing the characters from the books CONTINUED ON PAGE 3
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she read in her grandmother’s attic to her surroundings as she ran through the gardens and woods around her family’s Victorian home in Pennsylvania. As an adult, she continued to create landscapes not tied to reality, however many of her pieces, especially the selection that show at Edgewater Gallery on the Green, illicit strong reactions from viewers who are partial to the mystic beauty of New England landscapes. An emotional response is what Purinton is after. “My work is inspired by my emotional reaction to certain kinds of light in the landscape, especially that which is reflected, diffused or intensified by the beginning or end of the day, or the changing season.” Recently, Purinton has been working from some different place inspirations. “Most of my recent paintings are based on imagery from the West: Alaska, Montana, Oregon, and the Central Coast
of California.” “The Pacific coast,” she said, “has a very different feel from the Mid-Atlantic or New England; probably because the sun sets over the ocean instead of rising there. To me, it seems unfamiliar, mysterious and so, compelling. The Western rivers are powerful and expansive, with taller trees to filter the light and catch the mist, and the landforms of the rocks and mountains are magnificent. There are natural cathedrals on every path.”
“MY WORK IS INSPIRED BY MY EMOTIONAL REACTION TO CERTAIN KINDS OF LIGHT IN THE LANDSCAPE...” — Julia Purinton Another outlet for Purinton’s talent is surprisingly stationary: painting murals directly onto walls for clients. She began doing this after college, she said, as “I somehow managed not to acquire any marketable skills in school. But I wasn’t afraid to experiment with techniques and found my art history background helpful in interpreting different design directives in collaboration with designers and architects.” Her murals range from figures reminiscent of greek mythology in the style of an ancient fresco, to faux painted patterns and florals, to garden scenes inspired by traditional
Take A Hike - 12” x 48” - oil on canvas.
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| ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, October 20, 2016 — PAGE 3 Chinese painting, and of course, her signature scenes of serene stands of trees, early sunlight catching on their branches. At home in her studio in Cambridge, Purinton says she has been working on some different approaches. “I’m working on a series of large landscapes which are somewhat more abstract,” Purinton said. “These new pieces have an edited, restrained palette and utilize many layers of washes and glazes to develop complexity and depth. I’m interested in exploring different methods of applying a variety of paint mediums to make images that are more dramatic and evocative while at the same time less obviously descriptive.” Purinton describes herself as “plagued by wanderlust and a nomadic restlessness,” and that her art is likewise affected by “shifting tides and changing seasons.” She describes her philosophy of humans’ strained, often disastrous relationship with the natural world and how we “find solace in the expression of a landscape.” Her work proves her belief that for artist and viewer alike, a rendering of place, even if it is wholly fictive, soothes us like a memory. — Isabel Lower works at Edgewater Gallery.
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IN TOWN
Bread and Puppet Theater performs in Middlebury Bread & Puppet Theater will perform for one night only on Saturday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. at the Champlain OCT. SUNDAY Valley Unitarian Champlain Valley Unitarian Society, Society, 2 Middlebury Duane Court in Middlebury, with a brand new giant puppet show inspired by the forthcoming elections.
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“The Underneath the Above Show #1” is a new work written and directed by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann. It takes place in a distant, mountainous country much different from ours, where successive unsuccessful cardboard kings reign with fleeting promise over an over-life-size, technicolor cardboard electorate operated by a hardhat workforce
prone to coffee breaks, until the eternally-hopeful population installs a jolly old god in the highest office of the land. It’s a hilarious, timely antidote to the election-themed entertainment on TV. And, with its raucous energy and bright palette, it makes a great fall hurrah. Schumann says that “The Underneath the Above Show #1” is “a puppet show contribution to the ongoing U.S. presidential election campaign. In our show the normally slightly overweight three-dimensional electorate is reduced to its proper election year cardboard two-dimensionality. Hardhat workers help to demonstrate the elementary dissatisfaction of this cardboard electorate and its desire for a new king who will promote life, health, home, and general protection from evil.”
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After the performance Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli to the public, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” — books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and
Peter Schumann is the director of Bread and Puppet Theater and is also the creator of the puppets.
banners from the Bread and Puppet Press — will be for sale. The Bread and Puppet Fiddle Band will welcome the public. This show is appropriate for all ages, but contains some loud noises. Tickets are $10 suggested donation, but no one will be turned away. For more info, visit www.breadandpuppet.org
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VERMONT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, OCT. 21-30 The Vermont International Film Festival (VTIFF) kicks off on Friday, Oct. 21 and runs through the 30th. Films will be presented at Main Street Landing Performing Arts Center, Burlington City Arts and the Flynn Theater in Burlington. Tickets for this year's festival
are available at VTIFF.ORG/FESTIVAL. General admission is $10 per film; various discounts apply for students, seniors and passholders. For more info call (802)660-2600 or visit www.vtiff.org.
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OUT OF TOWN
Rob Bartlett comes to Paramount's stage Rob Bartlett started performing stand-up comedy in 1978 hoping it would lead to a career in acting. Nearly 30 years later, he is a successful actor, standup comedian, radio personality and OCT. writer. Come see Bartlett live on Saturday, Oct. SATURDAY 22, 8 p.m., at the Paramount Theater in Rutland. Paramount Theater, Rutland Tickets are $35.
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Rob started in stand-up comedy at Richard M. Dixon’s White House Inn, a talent showcase club on New York’s Long Island run by the presidential look-alike. It was at Dixon’s club where he met a 17-year-old Eddie Murphy, and the two became fast friends and formed two-thirds of the improvisational trio The Identical Triplets. When the trio broke up, Rob went on as a solo act and became a headliner in comedy clubs and colleges across the country. He has headlined at the Sands Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Atlantic City’s Tropicana and Hilton Hotels, Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods Resort and Casino. On television, Rob has appeared on the “MTV Half Hour Comedy Hour,” “Standup Spotlight” on VH1 and on “Late Night with David Letterman” and “Conan O’Brien.” In 1986 Rob became a regular in-studio guest of Don Imus at radio station WNBC 66AM. When the station was sold and the “Imus in The Morning” program moved to the WFAN studios in Astoria, Rob became a contract player, and has since written and performed some of the show’s popular cast of characters.
revival of Sweet Charity with Christina Applegate. He also performed as Speed, the poker playing crony of Oscar and Felix, in the 2005 revival of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick. Opening for Rob Bartlett is the Ruthless Women Sketch Comedy Troupe featuring Megan Simard, Michelle Gotay, Mandy Leigh Thompson, and Cindy Marchionda. More info and tickets at www. paramountvt.org.
Rob’s television credits include starring roles on the Paramount/CBS comedy special “What’s Alan Watching?” ABC’s “Move the Crowd,” and a recurring role on NBC as attorney Milton Schoenfeld on “Law & Order, Special Victims Unit.” Rob is very proud to have been voted one of the “Top Ten Worst” wrestling announcers in history for his short-lived stint as color commentator of “WWF Monday Night Raw.” He is also the voice of Marty, the hyperactive dog, on the popular cartoon series “Kenny the Shark.” Rob made his Broadway debut as author and star of More to Love. His Broadway credits also include Amos Hart in Chicago, Mr. Mushnik in the 2003 revival of Little Shop of Horrors, and as Herman in the 2005
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THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE COMES TO FLYNN FOR VTIFF The Triplets of Belleville comes to the Flynn MainStage in Burlington on Thursday, Oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Vermont International Film Festival. Tickets are $15-$35. A bit about the film: Kidnapped by mysterious henchmen, a Tour de France cyclist named
Champion is spirited across the ocean to the teeming metropolis of Belleville. His nearsighted grandmother and faithful dog follow his trail and are taken in by a trio of eccentric jazz-era divas, while the motley sleuths follow the clues in hot pursuit. This beloved animated film is screened as composer Benoît Charest
leads Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville in the live performance of his original score, including his Academy Award-nominated song, Belleville Rendez-vous. In the spirit of the film, Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville transports audiences to the exciting streets of 1920s Paris and Le Jazz Hot.
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EXHIBITS ADDISON COUNTY IN PROFILE: SILHOUETTES FROM THE HENRY SHELDON MUSEUM ARCHIVES. On exhibit through December at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., Middlebury. 3882117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. BLOOM AND DOOM: VISUAL EXPRESSIONS AND REFORM IN VIENNA 1900. On exhibit through Dec. 11 at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery. 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. COLORS OF FALL. On exhibit Sept. 1-Oct. 31 featuring works by artists Judith Reilly, Joan Drew and Christine Holzschuh. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956. EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, featuring landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Cerf Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. FOLLOWING A THREAD. On exhibit through Nov. 13 featuring paintings by Ashley Wolff. Jackson Gallery on the lower level of Town Hall Theater, 68 South Pleasant Street, Middlebury. 802-382-9222. INDEPENDENCE MUST BE WON: THE ART OF ELLEN VIERECK. On exhibit for 2016 at Mount Independence State Historic Site. 497 Mount Independence Road, Orwell. 802-948-2000 or www.historicsites.vermont. gov/MountIndependence. OF THE LAND. On exhibit for the month of October featuring the works of Julia Purinton, Tom Marrinson, Sabra Field, Tom Dunne, Gary Hall and Jen Violette. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. 802-989-7419. POST POP: PRINTS OF KEITH HARING. On exhibit through Dec. 11. Following the illustrious career of Keith Haring from 1982, when he made his first silkscreen prints, to his death from AIDS related complications in 1990. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 1820-1835. On exhibit starting Sunday, July 10 at the Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877-3406. ROBERT F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art. Ongoing exhibit of East Asian ceramics. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. THE CREATIVE WORLD OF STEPHANIE STOUFFER. On exhibit Sept. 2-Oct. 29 featuring Stephanie Stouffer’s paintings, along with selected licensed products from her 35 year career as an illustrative and decorative artist. Compass Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon. (802) 247-4295. HERE & THERE. On exhibit for the month of October featuring the paintings of Timothy Horn. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill Street, Middlebury. (802) 458-0098. HAVE AN EXHIBIT YOU WANT PUBLISHED?
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Break the norm with hip hop and more ROKAFELLA COMES TO MIDDLEBURY FOR HIP HOP CLASS AND LECTURE In conjunction with the exhibition Post Pop: Prints of Keith Haring, on view at the Middlebury College Museum, pioneering feminist breakdancer Ana “Rokafella” Garcia will give a lecture demonstration in the Dance Theatre of the Mahaney Center for the Arts at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 27. Her presentation is free and open to the public. But, hold-up... hear that record scratch, and drop... this... beat... Yo, you can join Rokafella, in her master class; Hip hop and shakin’, open to the public’s bad a . Dig-it Wednesday, the 26th, half past four, that’s right; Groovin’ and breakin’ in Mahaney ‘aight? (Don’t have rhythm? Here’s a translation: Join Rokafella for a hip hop dance class on Wednesday, Oct. 26, Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater, 4:30 p.m.) Like Haring, who frequented dance clubs and organized his first art exhibitions in them, Rokafella launched her career in the dance culture of New York. She will discuss the rise of hip hop and breakdancing and demonstrate some of its signature moves in her lecture/presentation on Thursday. Born in East Harlem, Rokafella got her start in what she calls “temples of dance” after she first saw the extraordinary feats of B-Boys (breakdancers) on the streets. Developing her own take on
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As she told the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury filmmakers of the PBS documentary project Makers: Women Who Made America, “I’m letting people know you can be a woman and be a badass breaker. When you see me, you’re seeing excellence and you learn that men don’t have a hold on the word ‘excellence’ . . . I’m showing that hip hop is pure expression, freedom and positive.” In 1995, with her husband Kwikstep, who had coached her and directed her to audition for top crews, she founded Full Circle Productions, Inc., a non-profit that seeks to empower young dancers through the positive power of hip hop. Rokafella is also a faculty member at The New School and at the Peridance Capezio Center, New York. Rokafella’s visit is co-sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Department of Dance, the Center for the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity, and Chellis House, Women’s Resource Center at the College. For more info call (802) 443–5007 or visit museum.middlebury.edu.
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CALENDAR HALLOWEEN SISTER-TO-SISTER HALLOWEEN NIGHT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Oct. 21, 7-9 p.m., Chellis House, 56 Hillcrest Road, Middlebury College. Middlebury College’s Sister-to-Sister program is inviting all middle school girls for a Halloween Night with pumpkin decorating and spooky games. Contact khanta@middlebury.edu or call 443-5937. HALLOWEEN PROGRAM FOR KIDS IN LINCOLN. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 3:30 p.m., Lincoln Library. Join Betsy Graziadei and Debi for a Halloween craft, snack, stories and candy hunt. Open to kids ages 5 and up. HALLOWEEN PARTY IN BRISTOL. Friday, Oct. 28, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Holley Hall. Children’s Halloween party complete with music, activities, refreshments, pizza and healthy snacks. At 6:30 p.m. there will be a costume parade down Main Street. Info: 453-5885. HALLOWEEN FUN IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, Oct. 29, 5-9 p.m. for Trunk or Treat car decorating from 5-6 p.m., followed by trunk or treat from 6-7 p.m. Haunted church from 7-9 p.m. Prizes for best vehicle. All children must be accompanied by an adult. Cars and costumed people needed. Call 453-5978 or 877-3080 to be a participant. Sponsored by the Town Events Department and New Haven Congregational Church. HALLOWEEN DINNER DANCE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 29, 5:30 p.m. cocktails, 6 p.m. dinner, VFW Post #7823. Menu includes steak, baked potato, veggie, roll and dessert. $15. Prize for best costume. Music by Triple B DJ. RSVP by Oct. 19 to 388-9468. HALLOWEEN DANCE IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Oct. 29, 6 p.m., Eagles Club. There will be snacks and a Halloween contest for cash prizes. Live music by “WHIRLWIN” from 7-11 p.m. Tickets $10 in advance or $15 at the door. Purchase tickets at Halfway House in Shoreham; Cacklin’ Hens: Bead, Yarn and Gift Emporium in Middlebury; Pratt’s Store in Bridport; or Addison County Eagles Club in Vergennes. Info: 877-2055. SPOOKTACULAR IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Oct. 30, 1-3 p.m., Middlebury Green. Head downtown for a Halloween bash, complete with games, prizes, music, face painting and a trick-or-treat parade down Main Street. Rain or shine. TRUNK OR TREAT IN VERGENNES. Sunday, Oct. 30, 1-3 p.m., American Legion Post #14, Vergennes. The costume karaoke dance party begins at 1 p.m., followed by trunk or treat in the parking lot from 2-3 p.m. To CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
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VIDEO ERGO SUM: ON CAMPUS AND BEYOND. Friday, Oct. 21, 12:15 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre and lower lobby. Curator of modern and contemporary art Emmie Donadio surveys the museum’s collection of art, seen and unseen. $5 donation suggested. Free to college ID cardholders. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 4433168.
CRAFT FAIR AND RAFFLE IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Oct. 22, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., St. Peter’s Church. St. Peter’s Church will host a craft fair and raffle at the Parish Hall. Lunch and bake sale items will also be part of the festivities. Info: Yvette LaPete 4536789.
SWING FOR THE ARTS IN BRANDON. Friday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center. A swing dancing benefit to fund programs for the community featuring the 18-piece big band EnerJazz. Tickets $25. Info: Edna Sutton at info@cmacvt.org or 247-4295. WESTERN ABENAKI ARTIFACTS IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, Oct. 23, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum. Frederick Wiseman presents his work on Rokeby’s Abenaki artifacts. Admission for the program $2. Free with museum admission. Info: 8773406.
DANCE ANA ROKAFELLA GARCIA: BREAKDANCE/ ORIGINAL HIP HOP DANCE STYLES PRESENTATION IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Oct. 27, 4:30-6 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theater. Pioneering feminist breakdancer Ana ROKAFELLA Garcia discusses the rise of hip hop and culture the New York’s dance clubs. Info: www.midddlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.
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CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC WITH GARETH CORDERY IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Oct. 23, 4 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. Guest conductor Matthew LaRocca leads the Champlain Philharmonic for an evening of music of the great Russian masters. Tickets $15/10/5. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 4433168.
“ALL OF ME” SCREENING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Oct. 20 and 21, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. From award-winning filmmaker Bess O’Brien comes a film focused on the lives of women, girls and boys who are caught in the downward spiral of eating disorders and their struggle to regain a sense of self-compassion and healing. Tickets $12 at the door.
DISCUSSION WITH JULIA GRUEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Oct. 28, 12:15 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art. A discussion with Julia Gruen, executive director of the Keith Haring Foundation. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 4433168.
TEEN MOVIE NIGHT IN LINCOLN. Friday, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Library. Harry Potter movie for kids in 7th grade and up. Popcorn provided. Come and join us and help pick the movie for next month.
OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Oct. 28, 4 p.m., Community Room at EastView at Middlebury. Photographer Sue Palmer Stone’s works will be on display through November. Opening reception with a talk by the photographer. All welcome.
MOVIE SCREENING IN VERGENNES. Friday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Jay Craven’s new film, “Peter and John,” based on the novel by Guy de Maupassant, will be screened. Jay Craven will introduce the film and lead a post-film discussion. JAUJA IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 22, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Danish Captain Gunnar Dinesen leads a
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band of men assigned to kill Aboriginals in Argentina’s desert. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 4433168. MOVIE NIGHT IN LINCOLN. Tuesday, Oct. 25, 6:30 p.m., Lincoln Library. Join us for “Like Water for Chocolate,” a 1992 film based on the popular novel by first-time Mexican novelist Laura Esquivel. “BEYOND HUNGER: TOWARD FOOD DEMOCRACY” IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 7:30-9 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. Frances Moore Lappe will speak on “Beyond Hunger: Toward Food Democracy,” followed by local refreshments and a book signing. Lappe has won numerous awards and honorary degrees, including the Right Livelihood Award for “revealing the political and economic causes of world hunger and how citizens can help to remedy them.” “BEETLEJUICE” IN BRISTOL. Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., Town Green. “Beetlejuice” movie will be shown. Free. Wind, rain or cold location: Holley Hall. “THE ENTERTAINER” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Rob Ashford directs Kenneth Branagh as the unforgettable Archie Rice in this production captured live from the Branagh Theatre Company. Tickets $17/$10 students. “45 YEARS” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 29, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. One week before Kate Mercer’s (Charlotte Rampling) 45th wedding anniversary, a letter arrives for her husband (Tom Courtenay) with shattering news that promises to change the course of their lives forever. Free. Info: www.middlebury. edu/arts or 443-3168. “GIMME SHELTER” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 29, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Rolling Stones’ “Gimme Shelter” is presented as part of Town Hall Theater’s Rock on Film series. Tickets $10 and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org or 382-9222.
MUSIC BELCEA QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Oct. 20, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. The Belcea Quartet returns to perform a program of Brahms and Schubert quartets,
including Death and the Maiden. Tickets $25 public; college ID holders $20; students $6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/ arts or 443-3168. LC JAZZ IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m. Take a musical journey through the big band era with LC Jazz, an 18-piece classic big band. The group is celebrating their 25th anniversary. Tickets $5 students and seniors; $10 all others. There will be cake and punch at intermission. SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Oct. 23, 2 p.m., Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. Meet New England’s newest Jazz trio, Aformal u, encompassing a broad variety of eras and styles. Free. RSVP appreciated. Contact Connie Leach at 388-1220 or cleach@ residenceottercreek.com. WERNER KROTZ AND FRIENDS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 29, 8-10 p.m., Middlebury Community Music Center. German guitarist Werner Krotz joins Vermont musicians Daniel Scharstein, Cobey Gatos and others for a jam of acoustic and electric jazz, fusion and pop. Free. SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Oct. 30, 2 p.m., Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. Paul Asbell Jazz will be in concert. Free. RSVP appreciated. Contact Connie Leach at 388-1220 or cleach@residenceottercreek.com. VSO STRING QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Oct. 30, 3 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. The Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents a musical narration of Steve Schuch’s book, “A Symphony of Whales,” inspired by the true story of whales stranded in the Siberian Sea and the efforts to save them. The quartet also plays spooky Halloween selections. Costumes encouraged and treats provided. $8/$6/$16 families (up to four people). Info: www.middlebury.edu/ arts or 443-3168.
SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES CORN CHUCK TOURNAMENT IN CORNWALL. Sunday, Oct. 23, 11 a.m., 1301 Cider Mill Road. Annual corn chuck tourney at Woody and Ingrid’s will feature food, drinks, prizes, excitement and humor. Live auction of artist created board sets. Teams SEE CALENDAR ON PAGE 15
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register your vehicle, contact Martha DeGraaf 877-9986 or email marsulli@aol.com. TRICK OR TREAT AT THE LIBRARY IN MONKTON. Monday, Oct. 31, 4:30-6 p.m., Russell Memorial Library. Have the children stop by and show off their costumes and receive a book along with a candy treat. Info: 453-4471. TRICK OR TRUNK IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, Oct. 31, 5-7 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, corner of Route 7 and Seminary Street. Decorated cars and trunks will be filled with goodies. Cider and donuts will be available in the Fellowship Hall of the church. Hosted by the United Methodist Women. Info: 388-2510.
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chili and chocolate
It’s classic: sweet and spicy. We know it to be true from any good romance novel or heart-pounding salsa dance. The crush of spicy hot and sensual sweet is undeniably irresistible. And so it was last Saturday in Vergennes during the second annual Chili and Chocolate on the Green festival.
BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI
“The two big new things this year were entertainment and chocolate,” said Amy Bodette Barr, marketing and development coordinator for the Vergennes Partnership. “Adding the chocolate element was new and very successful; Michelle Tisbert had that brilliant idea.”
Tisbert is the owner of Everwhere Boutiques in Vergennes, is one of the Vergennes Partnership board members and was the volunteer coordinator who spearheaded Saturday’s event. In total there were 10 chili vendors, including Bar Antidote, Basin Harbor Club, Black Sheep Bistro, 3 Squares Cafe, KB Cafe, Park Squeeze, Pratt’s Store, Strong House Inn, Village Cafe and Tavern, West Addison General Store; and four chocolatiers: Daily Chocolate, Vermont’s Own, Pratt’s Store and 3 Squares Chocolate. Yes, Pratt’s and 3 Squares entered in both categories. Each guest received a red and a white ticket, then entered the green to CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
JUDGES’S CHOICE AWARD FOR CHILI 3 Squares Café won the judges over with Matt's Cacao Braised Beef & Pasilla Pepper Chili
INGREDIENTS: Braising 5# Brisket, trimmed 4 quarts chicken stock 1 quart red wine 1 c. garlic, chopped 2 c. whole cacao beans 2 c. diced onions 3 cinnamon sticks 6 pasilla peppers
PREPARATION: To Braise Beef Sear trimmed brisket, add to braising pan with chicken stock, red wine, garlic, cacao, onion, cinnamon, & pasilla peppers. Braise in __ oven for 2.5 to 3 hours or until fork tender. Allow to cool, reserve braising liquid, shred beef with
Chili 2 tbsp vegetable oil ½ c. garlic, chopped 5 poblano peppers, diced medium 2 jalapenos, diced medium 3 onions, diced medium 1 quart tomatoes, pureed 1 quart tomatillos, pureed
4 cans kidney beans
fork. Blend reserved stock together in food processor or blender.
mix, stir for another 5 minutes to develop spice flavors. Add pureed tomatoes and tomatillos and 1 quart of reserved, blended braising liquid, kidney beans and beef. Simmer for 4 hours. Taste for salt & pepper
To assemble chili In a large stock pot on medium high add vegetable oil and garlic, sweat. Add onions and peppers, continue to sweat until onions are translucent. Add spice
Spice Mix 3 tbsp ground cumin 3 tbsp ground coriander ¼ c. paprika ¼ c. ancho powder 1 tbsp oregano 1 tbsp thyme salt & pepper to taste
Garnish with Queso Fresco & Fried Vermont Tortilla Company Tortillas
Danelle and Matt Birong, owners of 3 Squares Cafe, took home both judge's awards for chili and chocolate at the Vergennes Chili and Chocolate on the Green festival last Saturday.
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test and taste all 14 offerings. Once they settled on their favorites, guests wrote the name of the best chili on the red ticket and the best chocolate on the white ticket. The People’s Choice award for chili went to Chef Justin Patras of Park Squeeze. The People’s Choice award for chocolate went to Daily Chocolate. The more formal judging was reserved for celebrity judges Rick Norcross and Jamie Lee Thurston (who also performed live music). The judges selected the chili and chocolate winners based on blind samples. Ashtin Stearns, Octavia Devine and Vaida De Rosa were the “runners” for the judges. They went from vendor to vendor bringing the judges tastings of each chili and chocolate. The judges awarded best chili and best chocolatier to 3 Squares Cafe. “We’re thrilled to have the judges hold our two products in high regard,” said owner and chef Matt Birong. “I enjoy doing these events; it’s a great way to get out in the community.”
Creamery; and garnished with a fried corn tortilla (from Vermont Tortilla Company out of Shelburne — it’s a new company making corn tortillas with non-gmo, organic corn from Champlain basin),” said Birong. “The chocolate: it’s own beast. We are investors and partners in a “THIS YEAR’S cacao farm in the Dominican Republic. 3 Squares buys its beans EVENT WAS from the farm. We submitted our Bean To Bar, 70% trinatario varietal of cacao.” PHENOMENAL.
IT WAS BETTER THAN WE HAD EXPECTED. WE HAD REALLY GREAT ATTENDANCE. THE PARK WAS FULL AND PEOPLE WERE HAPPY.” — Amy Bodette Barr
Birong and his wife, Danelle, opened 3 Squares Cafe in the winter of 2007 and were the recipients of the People’s Choice for chili at last year’s event. “The chili I made this year was a braised beef brisket with cacao, a pacilla pepper base, Carleton Yoder’s cheese from Champlain Valley
OK, slow down Chef Birong. There are a lot of fancy words in there. Let’s start with one basic we should all know: What is cacao? Cacao is the actual bean of the cocao plant. “The cocao plant kinda looks like an apple tree,” explained Birong. “Cacao is actually the seed pod of the fruit. It’s multicolored and about the same size and shape as a football.” OK, good to know. “This year’s event was phenomenal,” said Barr, who is now one full year into her job with the Vergennes Partnership. “It was better than we had expected. We had really great attendance. The park was full and people were happy.”
The final count is still being tallied, but we’ll just say the turnout was successful. The proceeds benefit the Vergennes Partnership, which aims to “enhance the economic viability and preserve the beauty and character of the downtown.” “Other than being a really great community event,” said Barr, a 1984 VUHS grad, “it was nice to offer a face to face connection between our vendors and the community. It takes a lot of effort to take time away from their business and put this event on, and we really appreciate everyone’s work.” So for another year, Park Squeeze, Daily Chocolate and 3 Squares Cafe will have bragging rights for the best chili and chocolate. Here’s to a hot year and a sweet life.
PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR CHILI It’s not a recipe; it’s just a list of ingredients and a 3 day process. See if you can recreate Park Squeeze Chef Justin Patras’ chili!
INGREDIENTS: Otter Creek Heritage Farm Pork (local Addison County naturally raised pork) Spanish Onions Pablano Peppers Jalapenos Carrots Celery
Garlic Chipotle Peppers Switchback Ale Speeder & Earl’s Coffee Calabout Dark Chocolate Apple Cider Vinegar Fire Roasted Tomatoes Black Beans Kidney Beans Chef Justin’s Mole Rub Cumin
Smoked Paprika Coriander Chili Flakes Cayenne Pepper Soy Sauce Worcestershire Sauce Ginger Oil Kosher Salt Fresh Ground Black Pepper
Dickie Austin, left and Justin Patras, right, of Park Squeeze accept the People's Choice award for chili at this year's festival in Vergennes. PHOTOS/ AMY BODETTE BARR
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“The Antigone Project” opens MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE THEATER PROGRAM BEGINS WITH AN “ABSURD” AND “WARMLY HUMAN” PERFORMANCE OF FIVE PLAYS
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he Middlebury College Department of Theatre and Dance will present “The Antigone Project” directed by Professor Richard Romagnoli next Thursday, Friday and Saturday. “The Antigone Project” is an evening of five brief plays, bound together by a prologue performed by two actresses energizing and educating the audience. Each play spins on the original Greek tragedy about a young woman who defies the state to uphold a religious principle — the unwritten law of the gods — thus condemning herself to death. These widely varied contemporary works are by turns broadly comic, absurd and warmly human. “The Antigone Project” kicks off an unusual performance year for the Theatre Program: audiences who return in mid-November to see the collage text with music, American
Middlebury College student Amanda Whiteley rehearses for the upcoming performance of "The Antigone Project." PHOTO / TEDDY ANDERSON
Sunrise (Sunset), will enter a theatre where the set for Antigone Project has been repurposed and fragmented to serve the later play. In addition, the spring season will see the return of the Greek voice in a somewhat nontraditional production of a traditional work, Women of Troy, by visiting artist Vanessa Mildenberg. In between, Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia mingles history, time, memory and loss. “The Antigone Project” will be performed on Thursday, Oct. 27, and Friday, Oct. 28, at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 29, at 2 and 7:30 p.m., in the Seeler Studio Theatre at the Kevin P. Mahaney Center for the Arts. There will be a post-show discussion with the cast and crew following the Friday night show. Tickets are $12 for the general public; $10 for Middlebury College ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For tickets or information, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or visit go.middlebury.edu/arts.
what's next? THE WAITING ROOM Kristen Corbett’s Senior 700 Work in Directing November 10-12
TALLEY’S FOLLY By Lanford Wilson Lana Meyer’s Senior 700 work in Acting December 1-3
AMERICAN SUNRISE/SUNSET Directed by Cheryl Faraone November 17-19
OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW BETTER, YOUNG ENOUGH TO DO IT AGAIN Celia Watson’s Senior 700 work in Playwriting and Devising December 2-4
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LaRocca graduated with a B.A. in chemistry in 2002, and recently completed his doctoral work in music composition at Boston University.
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moment. It can be a much-needed break.” Cordery is excited about the upcoming performances with the CPO. “The Tchaikovsky is an incredibly fun piece to play and it’s always a joy to get to work with a new orchestra,” he says. “It’s a special honor for me to play it here in Vermont, my home for the next four years. It’s shaping up to be an incredible, and memorable, first semester of college.”
GUEST CONDUCTOR While the featured soloist is a Middlebury student, the guest conductor, Matthew LaRocca is a Middlebury College alum, making the CPO performance a sort of homecoming for him.
“I enjoyed my time as a chemist and found the work fascinating, but I wasn’t sure if it was the right field for me,” LaRocca says. “After a number of years in the lab, I started to think more and more about the possibility of working in music full time. I eventually decided to go back to graduate school for music and haven’t looked back since.” LaRocca is a conductor, composer and educator based in Burlington. He is on the faculty of Saint Michael’s College, where he teaches music theory, conducting and composition. LaRocca is also the Assistant Director of Music-COMP, a Vermont organization that teaches composition to elementary through high school students and facilitates live performances of their music by professional musicians. LaRocca is enthusiastic about conducting the allRussian program that the CPO will be performing.
| ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, October 20, 2016 — PAGE 13 “There’s such an amazing breadth of music and styles among Russian composers,” he says, “and yet, at the same time, Russian Classical music has its own distinct style and feel to it. There’s a wonderful range of emotions, and the music is so interesting because of that.” The Champlain Philharmonic Orchestra made its debut performance at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts in November 2004. Establishing a set of spring and fall concerts in succeeding years, the orchestra has continued to grow and thrive. Today, as the resident orchestra of the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury, the CPO performs regularly in Middlebury and now in Rutland County, at Green Mountain College in Poultney. Tickets for the Saturday performance in Poultney are available at the door only for $15 general admission, $10 seniors and $5 students. For the Sunday performance in Middlebury, tickets may be purchased at the door or ordered in advance by phone (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or visit go.middlebury.edu/tickets.
DINE THE UNITED WAY United Way of Addison County P.O. Box 555 Middlebury, VT 05753
802.388.7189 www.UnitedWayAddisonCounty.org Don’t just go out to eat, go out to eat AND feed another. When you dine at these restaurants during Dine the United Way, a portion of your ticket sales will come back to the United Way of Addison County. We will then turn that money around to support the programs and services in our community working to fight hunger. Don’t see your favorite local restaurant? Encourage them to participate.
Snow Bowl Season Pass Rates for 2016 - 2017 Adult Alumni Student Junior Child and 70+ Sr. Citizen
Early $420 375 310 250 115 310
After Nov. $510 465 380 290 155 380
A CHILD is under 6 years old. A JUNIOR is 6 years old through 6th grade. A STUDENT is 7th grade through college. A SENIOR CITIZEN is 62-69.
Any time MIDD STUDENT* $200 FAC/STAFF*- each of the first two $200
* Middlebury College faculty/staff must be benefits eligible and present MIDD card.
MID-WEEK PASS $255
This pass is valid on weekdays from the beginning of the season until 3/1/17, excluding the weeks of 12/26/16 - 1/1/17 and 2/20/17 - 2/24/17. From 3/1/17 to the end of the season, the pass is valid 7 days a week. On any weekend day or holiday, mid-week pass holders can purchase an all day ticket for the half day rate. Passes will be sold daily Oct. 1-31 in the Pro Shop at the Ralph Myhre Golf Course on Route 30 south of Middlebury from 8:00-5:00. Order your pass online at www.middleburysnowbowl. com or by mail. Form available on the website. Forms of payment accepted are cash, check, VISA, Mastercard or AMEX. Credit card purchases can be made by calling 802443-5125. If you have questions concerning this sale, please call 802-443-7600 or email snowbowl@middlebury.edu.
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2016 Hatch 31 31 Main Street Bristol • 453-2774 20% of sales on Nov 4-5
Green Peppers Restaurant 10 Washington St. Middlebury • 388-3164 15% of sales on Oct 17, 24, Nov 7, 14
51 Main 51 Main Street Middlebury • 388-8209 Donating meals to families in need.
Daily Chocolate 7 Green St. Vergennes • 877-0087 10% of sales from November 1-5
Bobcat Café 5 Main St Bristol • 453-3311 20% sales on November 9
Storm Café 3 Mill St. Middlebury • 388-1063 10% of breakfast & lunch sales November 8-10
Mister Up’s Restaurant & Bar 25 Bakery Lane Middlebury • 388-6724 15% of sales on November 10
Middlebury Inn Morgan’s Tavern 14 Court Square Middlebury • 388-4961 15% of sales from November 9-11 Fire & Ice Restaurant 26 Seymour St. Middlebury • 388-7166 10% of sales on November 17 & 22
Join us for some fun, great food, and support your local United Way. For more information, please visit www.UnitedWayAddisonCounty.org
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The big band era: A journey with LC Jazz
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he Vergennes Opera House is not hosting a performance this Saturday evening, it’s a journey — a journey through the history of jazz. It’s also a celebration — celebrating the 25th anniversary of Vergennes-based LC Jazz. This 18-piece classic big band along with actor OCT. Christopher Ross will SATURDAY Vergennes Opera House guide the audience from the birth of jazz in New Orleans through the fabulous ‘50s — think Sinatra, Bennett and Darin. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.
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The evening is in honor of Dr. Don Bickness (a well known family doctor in the Little City.) He and Dennis Bruso were the founders of LC Jazz 25 years ago. “This group was their brain child,” said Jennifer Murdoch, baritone sax player and personnel manager for LC Jazz. “It started out as more of a community band and over the years it’s developed into a very professional group.” Dr. Don was the lead alto sax player, Murdoch explained. “He sat in the center of the front row. He was such a significant part of the band... We all love him and it’s a major thing that he did for all of us.” Dr. Don had to tone it down (excuse the pun) when he reached his 80s. So he retired from the group last year with 24 years under his belt. The current band is made up of 16 musicians, Liz Cleveland is their female vocalist and Tony Panella is the male vocalist/trumpet player. They are all volunteers. “Most of us have other jobs or are retired,” Murdoch, who also works at the Counseling Service of Addison County, explained. Any money LC Jazz raises benefits the three scholarships they give annually to students from Mount Abe, Middlebury Union and Vergennes Union high schools who are enrolled in a college program to continue music education or music performance. Each scholarship is $1,000. “Our goal is to keep the big band sound alive and make sure people have access to it,” said Mudoch, who began playing sax as a fifth grader at Mary Hogan Elementary in Middlebury. She’s been with LC Jazz now for 10 years.
LC Jazz featuring the trombone section with Bill Bowers in the foreground and the trumpet section with Michele McHugh, top right. PHOTO / JENNIFER MURDOCH
Enter Christopher Ross. In his own words, he’s a “stay-at-home dad and a writer and an editor.” But on Saturday night he’ll be the emcee to introduce and explain the music that LC Jazz brings. You’ll be in good hands with Ross.
“OUR GOAL IS TO KEEP THE BIG BAND SOUND ALIVE AND MAKE SURE PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO IT,” — Jennifer Murdoch
“I was a DJ for several years before I started acting,” Ross continued. “I’ve acted with Middlebury Community Players, the Bristol Gateway Players, and the Flynn Actors’ Ensemble, and I did a one-man show last autumn at Town Hall Theater under the direction of Douglas Anderson. And yes, I’m getting my second masters degree up at Breadloaf.”
See, he’s got cred. “I’m proud of the continuous musical development of the group,” Murdoch added, summarizing their accomplishments as, “the commitment of our members, staying true to our mission, being able to double our scholarship awards in recent years, and that we really have a good time doing it!” Is there anything else that matters? Seating at the Vergennes Opera House will be concert style as well as tables and balcony. If you can’t sit still, hang out at the back of the hall where there will be space for dancing. Tickets are available at the door, online at vergennesoperahouse.org, and from any band member. There will be cake and punch served at the intermission. Tickets: $5 for seniors (62+) and students, all others $10, or at the door the evening of the performance.
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top pick
drawn on site. Benefits the Parent Child Center. $25 per person.
THEATER MACBETH IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Oct. 20, Friday, Oct. 21, Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 23, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury actors workshop presents Shakespeare’s “Macbeth,” directed by Melissa Lourie. The original electronic soundscape is by Middlebury College’s Peter Hamlin. Tickets $22/$10 student.
THIS IS NOT A DRILL, PEOPLE. GRAB YOUR CORN AND WIND UP YOUR CHUCKIN' ARM, BECAUSE THERE'S A CORN CHUCK TOURNAMENT HAPPENING IN CORNWALL THIS SUNDAY AT 11 A.M. AT WOODY AND INGRID'S. LIVE AUCTION, FOOD, BEVERAGES, PRIZES AND A GOOD LAUGH.
p.m. by Scott Morrison. Run time 3 hours 22 minutes. Tickets $24/$10 students. BREAD AND PUPPET IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 22, 7-8:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Court. “The Underneath the Above Show #1” is a new work written and directed by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann. After the show, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” — posters, postcards and books will be for sale.
21ST ANNUAL FIRST YEAR SHOW: SAVAGE AND LOVE. Thursday, Oct. 20, Friday, Oct. 21 and Saturday, Oct. 22, 8 p.m., Hepburn Zoo Theatre. Rebecca Martin directs a night of one acts by Sam Shepard, with a cast of first-year Middlebury College students. Tickets $5. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.
THE ANTIGONE PROJECT IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theater. Richard Romagnoli directs this prologue and five shorts plays, each of which takes a spin on the original Greek tragedy. Tickets $12 public; $10 college ID holders; $6 students. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.
DON GIOVANNI LIVE FROM THE MET IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Three charismatic singers, Simon Keenlyside, Ildar Abdrazakov and Mariusz Kwiecien, share the role of the title hero who goes to hell in a dazzling coup de theatre. A free talk will be given before the broadcast at 12:15
THE ANTIGONE PROJECT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theater. Richard Romagnoli directs this prologue and five shorts plays, each of which takes a spin on the original Greek tragedy. Tickets $12 public; $10 college ID holders; $6 students. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.
live music Joe Moore Band. Thursday, Oct. 20, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury. Mogani. Friday, Oct. 21, 8:30-10:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury. Bob MacKenzie’s Band. Saturday, Oct. 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Hot Box Honey. Saturday, Oct. 22, 8:30-10:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.
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The Big Band Era:
A Musical Journey with LC Jazz
Anthony Santor Jazz Group. Friday, Oct. 28, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main. Greenbush. Friday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury. Root 7. Saturday, Oct. 29, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury. Peter Sutherland and Tim Cummings. Saturday, Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Pat Donohue. Saturday, Nov. 5, 7 p.m., Ripton Coffee House. The Dave Keller Band. Saturday, Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Music Series, 52 River Road, Lincoln.
October 22nd, 7:30p.m. • $10/ $5 Seniors & Students
25th Anniversary Show
In partnership with Friends of the Vergennes Opera House
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the movie THE DRESSMAKER — RUNNING TIME: 1:59 — RATING: R Get ready. Is The Dressmaker a black comedy, a fable, a folktale, or just plain camp? You decide. Consider the basic ingredients without descriptives. The place: Dungatar, Australia. The characters: Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage (Kate Winslet), Tilly’s mother Mad Molly (Judy Davis), Tilly’s schoolteacher (Kerry Fox), Tilly’s paramour Teddy McSwiney (Liam Hemsworth). The premise: Tilly was run out of town years ago for killing a schoolmate and has returned for revenge. Now let’s add the adjectives. Winslet’s Tilly returns to the grim, run down, backcountry town of Dungatar to find the answers to the question that has bedeviled her for her lifetime: “Did I do it?” Did she? Or was she blamed because she was the young kid who didn’t fit in? As an accomplished designer and seamstress, Tilly sets up shop with her Singer sewing machine and transforms the local women while exploring the mystery of her past. Those Australian kids — now unappealing adults — express no regret for ruining Tilly’s life. Within minutes of the opening we realize we are watching a black comedy that intends to provoke our laughter and though it does occasionally, we laugh mostly because the movie is so contrived. Audience efforts to figure things out are undercut by actors whose ages don’t match their roles — Kate Winslet, for example, falling for Liam Hemsworth the handsome young Prince Charming who quotes Macbeth. He is appealing but far too contemporary for this story that is set in the backcountry in 1951. We are further confused by Tilly’s former teacher who is far too young to have taught her. The pairings among the characters make no sense at all — like a poker hand dealt without a matching pair. And only Winslet and Hemsworth seem real, if contemporary; the others are cardboard characters.
Kate Winslet in The Dressmaker (2015).
apologize for who they are or what they did. It would be fun to be able to say that Dungatar is a fanciful town of losers that acts as a comic backdrop for Winslet, but what’s funny about marital rape or the death of a child? This may well be the oddest role this fine actor has ever chosen. The good parts? Judy Davis as Tilly’s hermit mother who lives in a dung heap of an old house. Hers is a sharp and unforgiving portrait of a mother from Hell. Hugo Weaving is funny as a cross dressing police sergeant reveling in the luxury of Tilly’s gorgeously colored sewing materials. The takeaway? What was in the mind of novelist Rosalie Ham when she wrote the book and what persuaded Jocelyn Moorhouse to direct the movie? I add here that because the book was a great success, you might want to ignore my advice and find out for yourself.
If we accept the story as black comedy, we can abandon our resentment, but finally sit there in quiet confusion. It’s hard even to sympathize with Tilly’s appetite for revenge against these odd people who never regret or
— Reviewed by Joan Ellis
the book THE GIRL FROM VENICE — BY MARTIN CRUZ SMITH When cooler weather arrives, settling in with a good book is the perfect way to spend an evening. The Girl from Venice is just that book. Superbly written by Martin Cruz Smith, author of the bestselling Gorky Park, the first in his series featuring Russian investigator Arkady Renko, this new novel will pleasantly surprise his readers. I enjoyed everything about this book--the story, with its myriad twists and turns and double-crosses, the remarkable and indelibly-drawn characters who inhabit it, and the pitch-perfect pacing, not crazy quick but not maddening slow. It takes place in the final days of World War II in occupied Italy. The Venetian fisherman at the heart of the story, Cenzo (his given name is Innocenzo) is a man to admire, a man one could easily fall for. He makes the difficult choice to protect the beautiful Giulia, the girl from Venice, rather than hand her over to the Nazis, in the face of the consuming fear that drives the actions of many of the people he encounters at this crossroad in history, including his brother. It is a beautifully-told love story and I found it impossible to put down. —― Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury
SPOOKY BOOKS, PART ONE: THE CLASSICS The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson The Shining, by Stephen King The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells
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Mistakes homeowners make during cold weather Wintry weather is great at turning up problems you didn’t even know you had. Like that first snowy night in front of your fireplace that you thought was pure bliss — until you noticed a leak in the ceiling corner, which apparently was caused by a lack of insulation. Many homeowners don’t realize they’re making critical missteps that can cost a ton when winter sets in. Here are four wintertime mistakes homeowners often make (and what they could cost you!):
NOT BUYING A $2 PROTECTOR FOR YOUR OUTDOOR FAUCET WHAT IT’LL COST YOU: UP TO $15,000 AND A WHOLE LOT OF GRIEF It’s amazing what a little frozen water can do damage-wise. An inch of water in your basement can cost up to $15,000 to pump out and dry out. And, yet, it’s so easy to prevent, especially with outdoor faucets, which are the most susceptible to freezing temps. The simplest thing to do is to remove your garden hose from your outdoor faucet and drain it. Then add a faucet protector to keep cold air from getting into your pipes. They’re really cheap (some are under $2; the more expensive ones are still less than $10). While you’re at it, make sure any exposed pipes in an unheated basement or garage are insulated, too, or you’ll face the same pricey problem. Wrap pipes with foam plumbing insulation — before the weather drops. It’s cheap, too, just like the faucet cover (only $1 for six feet of polyethylene insulation).
FOREGOING A FIREPLACE INSPECTION WHAT IT’LL COST YOU: POSSIBLY YOUR LIFE — AND YOUR HOME A cozy fire is great, but if you need to maintain
the fireplace and chimney for the safety of your home and family. Schedule your maintenance appointment as early as you can. Don't wait for the cold.
GOING LAZY ON YOUR GUTTERS WHAT IT’LL COST YOU: YOU REALLY DON’T WANT TO BE IN A POSITION TO FIND OUT It can be so tempting to skip gutter cleanups as winter nears. It seems like as soon as you clear your gutters, they clog right back up again. So what’s the point? Well, if it looks like you’re living inside a waterfall when it rains, water is missing your gutter system completely. It’s being directed to your foundation instead. And a waterdamaged foundation is never cheap to fix. A contractor can plug foundation cracks for $1,500 to $3,000, says David Verbofsky, director of training for exterior home products manufacturer Ply Gem. But a worse problem, one that requires a foundation excavation or rebuild, can set you back (gulp) $30,000 or more. Suddenly, cleaning your gutters a few times each fall doesn’t seem so bad. A pro can do the work for anywhere between $70 and $250, depending on the size of your gutter system.
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WHAT IT’LL COST YOU: NIGHTS WHERE YOU'RE NEVER WARM, DESPITE SKY-HIGH BILLS
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