Classical Concerts at Norwich University March 20 & 26

Paine Mountain Arts Council is trying something new this year- co sponsoring classical concerts at Norwich University. Hope to see you there!

The Norwich University Classical Concert Series will present InoraBrass on Friday, March 20th at 7:30 pm at White Chapel at Norwich University. The program will include brass quintet classics by Victor Ewald and Eugene Bozza, film composer Michael Kamen’s soulful Quintet, as well as a variety of American standards. InoraBrass members have performed professionally throughout the United States and internationally, including with the Nashville Symphony, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Phish, the Vermont Symphony, on Broadway, and at Carnegie Hall. Inora’s debut concert in August 2014 “wowed” Seven Days reviewer Amy Lilly with a “sonorous wall of blown sound.”

Arioso, a chamber group featuring Linda Radtke, alto, Elizabeth Reid, violist, and Alison Cerutti, pianist, will perform a concert at 12:15 PM in White Chapel on Thursday, March 26.    Central Vermont’s chamber music ensemble will present music by Purcell, Bach, Rebecca Clarke, and Vermont composer Michael Close’s “Songs about Cheese”. “These songs are endearing, quirky, and lyrical,” remarks Radtke, “and I love the texts, which were written by the composer. I even get to yodel in the Swiss cheese movement!”

The concerts are sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, The College of Science and Mathematics, Norwich University Development, Norwich University Student Activities, and the Paine Mountain Arts Council, and are free and open to the public.

Tenth Annual Northfield Art Show, April 24-26, 2015

The Paine Mountain Arts Council is pleased to announce that the Tenth Annual Northfield Art Show will be held April 24-26 at The Community Room, Brown Public Library, 93 South Main St, Northfield, VT. The Art Show is open to artists who live and work in Northfield and surrounding towns, including Northfield Falls, Brookfield, Roxbury, and Berlin.

All entries must be original 2 or 3-dimensional art work such as oils, acrylics, watercolors, pastels, pencil drawings, fiber art, sculpture, ceramics and photography. Work must not have been previously shown in the Northfield Art Show. The show is not juried. Application forms will be sent out in mid-March.

If you are interested in exhibiting your art work or volunteering your time to help set-up or host the show, please contact Pamela Druhen, druhens@tds.net, 485-9650 or Isabel Weinger Nielsen, isabelwn@gmail.com, 485-8910.

Ninth Annual Northfield Art Show April 25-27, 2014

Paine Mountain Arts Council will present the 9^th Annual Northfield Art Show Friday, April 25 through Sunday, April 27^th at Brown Public Library Community Room, 93 South Main Street.  This free exhibit is open to the public and features paintings, fiber art, photography, pastels, wood carving, and basketry by 17 artists from Northfield and surrounding towns.  Meet the artists at a reception, Friday from 7 to 9 p.m.  Gallery hours are:  Friday 12 to 9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Sunday 12 to 4 p.m.  Participating artists include:  William Barnard, Roy Butler,  Madonna Commo, Pamela Druhen, Barbara Geysalaers, John Hoag, Phyllis Higgins, Curtis Higley, Robin LaHue, Jeneane Lunn, Kathrena Ravenhorst-Adams, Ruth Sabol, Betty Shelley, Jackie Smith, Joyce Smykal, Isabel Weinger Nielsen, and Tamara Wight.   For more information, https://painemountainarts.wordpress.com/  or call 485-9650.

 

Arioso Notturno Concert – March 29, 2014

Dear Friends,

We wanted to invite you to a very special concert next Saturday, March 29th in Northfield for Paine Mountain Arts at 7:30 at the United Church right in the middle of town.  Our chamber ensemble Arioso returns with a delightful program called “Notturno“: Elizabeth Reid, viola; Alison Cerutti, piano; and Linda Radtke, alto.  Besides the lovely songs by Brahms , impromptus by Chopin, and Beethoven‘s Notturno, we have four, yes four!, new pieces by Vermont composers, two of which are world premieres, and three of which are women composers, for Women’s History Month:
      The Scree Dragon by Lydia Busler-Blais (Montpelier)
      Mother to Son by Patricia Julien (Burlington)
      Romance by Jacob Morton-Black (Colchester)
      Kyrie by Kathy Wonson Eddy (Braintree)

Arioso is committed to presenting work by contemporary composers at each of our programs, and this year is a real feast! We have been enjoying getting through late winter by working together on these pieces for Arioso’s 5th program, and hope to see you at the concert! Admission is by suggested donation of $12. For more information call 802-485-6924.

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9th Annual Northfield Art Show April 25-27, 2014

The Paine Mountain Arts Council will sponsor the 9th Annual Northfield Art Show, to be held April 25-27, 2014 in the Community Room, Brown Public Library, 93 South Main St, Northfield.

We have decided to move the show to April rather than having it in January, as in previous years, to allow participation for those who are away during the winter. The show is open to all artists who live and/or work  in Northfield, Northfield Falls, Roxbury, Brookfield and Berlin. It is not juried.

All entries must be original (i.e., no kits, paint-by-number, copies, etc.) 2 or 3-dimensional art work in the following categories:  oils and acrylics, watercolors, pastels, pencil, pulled prints, fiber art, sculpture, ceramics and photography.  Work must not have been previously shown in the Northfield Art Show. The committee reserves the right to refuse work deemed to be inappropriate.

A Call to Artists will be announced approximatley six weeks before the show. If you are interested in exhibiting or would like to help with set-up, hanging the artwork, and/or hosting, please contact:

Pamela Druhen, druhens@tds.net, 485-9650

Isabel Weinger Nielsen, isabelwn@gmail.com, 485-8910

Spring 2013 Update

The Paine Mountain Arts Council’s mission is to support a mix of artistic programming in the Northfield Community. We are looking for your ideas for programs and events to sponsor during the coming year. Do you have any suggestions for concerts, theatrical performances or art workshops? Would you like to serve on the PMAC Board, be a committee chair, or volunteer your time? We would love to hear from you!

This season, PMAC has sponsored all or part of the following:                                  

·         Jon Gailmor, master teacher and musician, for a multi-day residency in the Northfield Schools

·         Labor Day Weekend performance by the Panhandler’s Steel Drum Band

·         Gray Building Artists grant

·         Eighth Annual Northfield Art Show

·         Kayla Streibe (Northfield High School), participation in chorus at Carnegie Hall

·         Encore Arioso Primavera concert

·         Front Porch Forum contribution

·         Summer on the Common performances during the Northfield Farmers’ Market

 For more information, please contact one of our board members: 

Isabel Weinger Nielsen, Chair, isabelwn@gmail.com, 485-8910

Mary Granai Corrigan, Secretary / Treasurer,  merka6076@aol.com, 485-7076

 Maggie Cook, Pamela & Claude Druhen (485-9650), Jim Jones, David Ward (279-4270)

 The Paine Mountain Arts Council is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and all contributions are tax deductible. Contributions may be mailed to PMAC, c/o Corrigan, PO Box 151, Northfield Falls, VT  05664.

 

Encore Arioso Primavera! March 10 at 4 pm, Northfield

Encore Arioso Primavera!  Central Vermont’s acclaimed chamber music ensemble returns for their fifth series with music for piano, voice, viola, and clarinet. On this spring concert, Arioso offers the Fairy Tales by Robert Schumann,  Four Poems for Voice, Viola, and Piano by Charles Martin Loeffler Op.5,  plus two works by Vermont composers, Some Lonesome Valley, a trio for clarinet, viola, and piano by Erik Nielsen; and two new works by Kathy Wonson Eddy.  It is the mission of Arioso to highlight new works by contemporary Vermont composers.  The concert will be at the United Church in Northfield on Sunday, March 10, at 4PM, sponsored by the Paine Mountain Arts Council. All are welcome! A donation of $12 is suggested but not required.  For more information call 485-6924 or email cerutti@trans-video.net.

The members of Arioso, all Vermont professional musicians, are: Elizabeth Reid, viola;  Alison Cerutti, piano;  Linda Radtke, mezzo-soprano; and Elisabeth LeBlanc, clarinet. The group was formed in 2008, and debuted in May 2009, sponsored by the Paine Mountain Arts Council in Northfield and Cathedral Arts in Burlington.