Jim Lowe

The Mad River Chorale and orchestra, led by Mary Jane Austin, performs their annual Christmas Concert Saturday at the Waitsfield United Church of Christ.

Alastair Stout, Grace Church’s minister of music, rehearses the Rutland Area Chorus for Sunday’s Handel’s “Messiah” concerts.

Since 2011, the Green Mountain Mahler Festival has celebrated every New Year's Day — save for a COVID hiatus — with a community performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

The Dec. 15 sold-out audience at Rutland’s Grace Church was treated to an unexpected joy. George Frederic Handel’s “Messiah” as any true masterpiece is always rewarding, but Sunday took the

Soovin Kim remembers studying Johann Sebastian Bach's B Minor Partita, BWV 1002, for solo violin when he was 10 or 11 years — and his reaction predicted a lifetime surrounded by the music of Bach.

Pianist Michael Arnowitt will perform classics by Black composers in the Montpelier Chamber Orchestra’s “MLK Commemorative Concert,” 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 19, at the Montpelier City Hall Arts Center, which also features the Montpelier Community Gospel Choir and West African-style dancing and drumming by Shidaa Projects.

The TURNmusic Quartet — from left, Mary Rowell, Brooke Quiggins, John Dunlop and Elizabeth Reid — will present “Hurtling Toward Oblivion,” a program of 21st-century music centered on Vijay Iyer’s “Dig the Say,” Jan. 18 and 19 at The Phoenix Gallery and Music Hall in Waterbury.

Violinist Soovin Kim was inviting the audience into his world of Johann Sebastian Bach when he delivered heartfelt performances of the composer's

Artistic Director Filippo will lead Upper Valley Baroque in J. S. Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos Friday at the Lebanon (N.H.) Opera House, Saturday, Jan. 25, at Randolph’s Chandler Center for the Arts, and Sunday, Jan. 26, at Grace Congregational Church in Rutland.

It’s hard to imagine, but six concertos written in hopes of a job have become Johann Sebastian Bach’s most popular music.