Jim Lowe

Sunday’s closing concert of the Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival proved a welcome reminder that it is one of the finest in a state rife with fine classical music festivals.

Violinist Bella Hristova, a Jaime Laredo protégée, will lead VSO Made in Vermont performances Sept. 6-8 in Derby Line, Randolph and Manchester.

Sopranos Annalise Shelmandine and Lillian Broderick sing the Countess and Susanna’s duet, “Scrivi … Sull’aria” from Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro” at Unadilla Theatre’s “A Night at the Opera” on Sunday.

The Champlain Trio — from left, violinist Letitia Quante, pianist Hiromi Fukuda and cellist Emily Traubl — perform at The Franck Suchomel Memorial Arts Center on Saturday in Adamant.

The Vermont Symphony Orchestra returns to the spirit of its longtime music director Jaime Laredo when one of his star protégées returns to lead the renewal of the VSO Made

French composer Olivier Messiaen (standing) and his colleagues — behind him from left, violinist Jean le Boulaire, clarinetist Henri Akoka and cellist Étienne Pasquier — at the premiere of his “Quartet for the End of Time” in 1941 at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany, where they were prisoners. Ensemble Chamarré will perform the work Sept. 15 at Grace Congregational Church in Rutland.

‘The most ethereally beautiful music of the 20th century was first heard on a brutally cold January night in 1941, at the Stalag VIIIA prisoner-of-war camp, in Görlitz, Germany. The

Pianist Paul Orgel, who presented the inaugural program of Montpelier’s Capital City Concerts, will perform the first concert of its 25th anniversary season Sept. 21 at Unitarian Church of Montpelier.

Thank you for reading! We hope that you continue to enjoy our free content.

Ensemble Chamarré — from left, Katie Wolfe, Vytas J. Baksys, Catherine Hudgins and William Rounds — perform Olivier Messiaen’s “Quartet for the End of Time” Sunday at Grace Church. The work was premiered on Jan. 15, 1941 in a German prisoner-of-war camp where the composer was held.