A Celebration of Women in Music – Brattleboro, VT
Community music organizations are the backbone of classical music in the United States . Whether you have a community concert series that presents well-known artists, a local symphony orchestra or chamber music society, area choruses or a grass roots group that presents concerts on a year-round basis, all are promoting and presenting great music to their local people. These organizations rely on their year-round residents to sell or purchase tickets, promote the concert by word-of-mouth, make brownies or hors d’oeuvres for the reception and then be in the audience. Creative concert planning is a must for in this day and age, it is a struggle to find interested audience members and volunteers, yet somehow concert societies persevere and the reward is great. For forty-six years the Friendsof Music at Guilford ( Vermont ) has been presenting concerts to the public in the Brattleboro area. Starting with an organ recital in a rural barn in the ...