Vermont Philharmonic returns with two concerts
April 20, 2022 | By Waterbury Roundabout 
The Vermont Philharmonic returns to the stage with performances in Greensboro and Barre April 30 and May 1. Courtesy photo
After a two-year COVID-19 hiatus, the Vermont Philharmonic returns to the stage with two concerts, Saturday, April 30, and Sunday, May 1.
Music Director Lou Kosma will conduct both performances: April 30 at 7:30 p.m. at the Highland Center for the Arts in Greensboro, and May 1 at 2 p.m. at the Barre Opera House.
Colchester High School senior flutist Logan Crocker performs with the Vermont Philharmonic. Courtesy photo
The program features a movement from Jacques Ibert’s Flute Concerto by the student winner of the Borowicz Scholarship competition, Logan Crocker, a senior at Colchester High School.
Playing flute since age 8, Logan is a member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra and was designated first flute in the 2021 Vermont All-State Music Festival Orchestra and in the 2021 and 2022 New England Music Festival Orchestra.
The Philharmonic winds will open the concert with Ralph Vaughn Williams’s delightful Folk Song Suite, incorporating nine popular English songs and they will present an amusing Symphony for Winds in g minor by Gaetano Donizetti. The orchestra’s strings will perform Mozart’s exuberant Divertimento No. 2 in B-flat Major, K. 137.
The finale is Johannes Brahms’ Second Symphony, in D major, op 73, composed in 1877.
The Vermont Philharmonic is celebrating its 63rd year of making music in Central Vermont.
Purchase tickets online at vermontphilharmonic.com or at the door: $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, and $5 for students.