Jim Lowe

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Music Director Andrew Crust will lead the orchestra in a multi-media performance of Stravinsky’s “Firebird” Suite, plus music of Prokofiev and Lili Boulanger, Oct. 26 at The Flynn in Burlington.

Flutist Jillian Reed, now living in New York’s Hudson Valley, is returning to her hometown of Montpelier to participate in Capital City Concerts’ program, “A Musical Offering of Instrumental Works of J.S. Bach,” Saturday, Oct. 26, at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, and 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Burlington.

Jena Necrason, center, is the Russian aristocrat Lyubov Andreyevna Ranevskaya in the Middlebury Acting Company production of Chekhov’s “The Cherry Orchard” at Town hall Theater through Oct. 27. At left, is Maren Langford Spillane as her adopted daughter Varya; at right, John Nagle as Lyubov’s bother Gayev.

The Vermont Philharmonic went to the opera Sunday — and the glorious sounds of Italian opera resonated throughout the Barre Opera House. But it was a performance of a 1911

When Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Firebird” premiered in 1910, it immediately “took Paris by storm.”

“Alison called me — because she’s so generous,” Elizabeth Reid said. “We just started playing together — and then she had the idea of a duo.” That was in 2004.

The jury is still out as to whether Vermont Symphony Orchestra Music Director's Andrew Crust audience education initiative was successful at Saturday's

More than any other composer, the music of Johann Sebastian Bach can be deeply reassuring. But with some of Sunday's performances by Capital City Concerts at St.

“I was interested in people projecting onto those tiny objects whatever their need was — whatever their meaning was,” playwright Theresa Rebeck said of her 2007 Broadway hit “Mauritius.”

Each year at about this time, a dozen or so professional string players come together in Duxbury to prepare a concert that is about them — as well as the