Ongoing PROGRAMS
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Exploring Music, Storytelling, and Poetry
Curricula and Virtual Interactive Performances for PreK-12 Scrag Mountain Music is pleased to release two special musical programs for educators this spring. These curricula and virtual performance offerings are suitable for cross-content educator teams or as a focus within the music education content area. Click here to learn more! |
PAST 2020-21 SEASON PROGRAMS
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WatershedSaturday, August 14 at 1 pm
Outside Phantom Theater Edgcomb Barn, 970 Dump Rd., Warren Please feel free to bring your own blankets and chairs. [Rain venue: Inside Phantom Theater] This concert is presented in partnership with Friends of the Mad River. Sunday, August 15 at 1 pm Hubbard Park Tuning Forks Stage 400 Parkway St., Montpelier Note: Parking is limited, carpooling/walking is encouraged. Please feel free to bring your own blankets and chairs. [Rain venue: Vermont College of Fine Arts Chapel, 36 College St, Montpelier] |
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POSTPONED UNTIL FALL 2021
Scrag Mountain Music partners with Umbrella of the Northeast Kingdom for the Lullaby Project, a program that pairs musicians with parents in the community to write unique lullabies for their infants. Click here to learn more about Scrag's Lullaby Project and to see how your organization can get involved. The Lullaby Project is a program of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. This project is generously supported by the Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Foundation. |
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The Other Side of Silence: Exploring Libby Larsen’s newest workFri., June 4 at 7:30 pm EST
"Come as you are. Pay what you can." Grammy award-winning and one of America’s most performed living composers Libby Larsen joins Scrag co-Artistic Director and soprano Mary Bonhag and Brooklyn Art Song Society Artistic Director and pianist Michael Brofman for an in-depth discussion of her latest work The Other Side of Silence with poetry by George Eliot. Following this conversation, we’ll watch the performance of The Other Side of Silence performed by Bonhag and Brofman from the Brooklyn Art Song Society's concurrently running New Voices Festival. Special thanks to the Brooklyn Art Song Society for providing the digital recording for this program. 
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Deep Listening Workshop SEriesFri., Feb. 26
Fri., Mar. 5 Fri., Mar. 12 Fri., Mar. 19 Fri., Mar. 26 Fri., Apr. 9 at 7-8:30 pm EST SOLD OUT (Please email [email protected] to let us know if you would have interest in a future Deep Listening program.) Scrag co-Artistic Director and certified Deep Listening instructor Evan Premo guides a small group of participants virtually through Pauline Oliveros' Deep Listening exercises, a meditation practice on the art of listening and responding to environmental conditions. |
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Out of Darkness/Into the Light-- Exploring Shostakovich's Seven RomancesSat., Mar. 13 at 7:30 pm EST
Join Scrag co-Artistic Director and soprano Mary Bonhag, writer M. T. Anderson, and musician friends for an in-depth exploration and contemporary contextualization of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seven Romances on Poems of Alexander Blok, Op. 127. Following this conversation, we'll watch the performance of Seven Romances and Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel performed by Mary Bonhag (soprano), Mary Rowell (violin), Emily Taubl (cello), and Paul Orgel (piano) at the UVM Lane Series on February 19, 2021. Listen and Watch:
Special thanks to the Lane Series for providing the digital recording of their concert for this program.
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Lullaby ProjectJanuary - February 2020
Community Share: Sun., Feb. 28 at 4 pm Scrag Mountain Music partners with Good Beginnings of Central Vermont for our second Lullaby Project, a program that pairs musicians with parents in the community to write unique lullabies for their infants. Click here to learn more about Scrag's Lullaby Project. The Lullaby Project is a program of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute. This project is generously supported by the Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Foundation. |
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After Hours Pop-upsOctober 6, 2021 at 7:30 pm EST
December 2, 2020 at 7:30 pm EST February 12, 2021 at 7:30 pm EST Throughout this series, you'll enjoy short concerts live-streamed from some of our favorite Downtown Montpelier haunts after they close their doors for the day. Enjoy this series from the comfort of your own home! Listen and Watch past programs: Check out the artwork created by Glen Coburn Hutcheson in collaboration with Evan Premo.
This series is generously supported by Montpelier Alive.
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Handel's Messiah solosSat., Dec. 19 at 7:30 pm
Scrag presents a new and innovative virtual format of the beloved Messiah seasonal tradition. Acclaimed vocalists and pianists including Vermont artists Mary Bonhag (soprano), Erik Kroncke (bass), Mary Jane Austin (piano), and Lynnette Combs (piano), together with Kelly Guerra (mezzo soprano), Daniel McGrew (tenor), and Eric Sedgwick (piano) showcase the rich solos that shape Handel’s masterpiece. Interspersed with these solos will be readings of the choral numbers by members of the VT Philharmonic Chorus. Listen and Watch:
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Recital by Mary BonhagPractice Session: Thurs., Nov. 5 at 3 pm
Concert: Fri., Nov. 13 at 7:30 pm Scrag co-Artistic Director and soprano Mary Bonhag invites listeners on a unique musical journey inspired by faith and how it leads us to action together with pianist Hiromi Fukuda. Listen and Watch: Full conversation with Mary and Rev. Rona Kinsley Concert live-stream recording
Special thanks to the Highland Center for the Arts for hosting this virtual concert and to Janet McKenzie and Jon Henry for allowing us to use her artwork.
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At-Home Listening |
We invite you to enjoy perusing through videos taken at past Scrag concerts and music shared virtually this spring including the studio recording of Evan Premo's Thumbelina.
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Supporters |
Scrag Mountain Music's season is generously supported by the Vermont Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Montpelier Alive, Montpelier Community Fund, the Cummins-Levenstein Charitable Foundation, Vermont Mutual Insurance Company, The Amphion Foundation, Lawson's Finest Liquids Sunshine Fund, the Sinex Education Foundation, National Life Group Foundation, and the Vermont Community Foundation.
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