Experimental Teaching Leads 100 Fiddling Children to Harmony
North Bennington report on Stanley Eakers guiding 100 youngsters in Green Mountain and Red Barn Fiddlers. Group teaching aims for high standard classical playing, with seniors from Plantville Conn. and many from Vermont towns. Eakers, trained at Juilliard, emphasizes communal joy and discipline, and plans expansion to 200. The Red Barn Fiddlers will play at the World’s Fair. Green Mountain Fiddlers set for Brattleboro concert.
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North Bennington
Bennington College
Harmony
Bliss
Stanley Eakers
Vermont
Connecticut
Green Mountain
Red Barn
Eakers
College For the Bennington Composers Conference
Eukers
Alan Carter
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Iddlers
Red Barn Fiddlers
Booth House
Bach
Shilton
Green Mountain Fiddlers
Bennington Notes and Local Change Brightens Fall
Miss Patricia Prandini fills in for the vacationing columnist as Bennington items note student departures for college and new BCHS waitresses. Maine, Vermont fall calendar lists festivals in Bennington Montgomery Calais Johnson Rutland and Plainfield. Martha Burleigh tours Europe with Senior Girl Scouts visiting France England Germany and Austria.
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Vermont
Bennington
Montgomery
Calais
Johnson and Rutland
Manchester
Plainfield
Martha Burleigh
Flint
Mich
James Bullard
Pageant Street
Europe
United States
Burleigh
France
England
Germany
Austria
Paris
Martha
Thomas Street
Sans Chapelle
Mr. Street
Old First Church
Williamstown
Women’s World Six Hours At the Fair
A traveler recalls a family trip to the World’s Fair by Long Island Railroad from Manhasset to Flushing. They note the GM exhibit impresses the children, the Vermont New England pavilion and its store, and a suggestion to improve the New England display. The piece ends with a visit to the Chrysler area and a musical show with puppets by the Bairds.
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Long Island
Manhasset
New England
Vermont
New York
Chrysler
Bairds
Walt Disney
Coca Cola
Hong Kong
Mary Jean
Clark Art Institute to unveil unknown Fragonard Sunday
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute will publicly exhibit a newly discovered Fragonard portrait titled The Warrior in Williamstown Mass. The work, long in private hands, is part of a 14-work fantasy portrait series the scholar Charles Sterling calls impetuous masterworks. A detailed study with plates accompanies the unveiling.
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Williamstown
Mass
Jean Honore Fragonard
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Charles Sterling
New York University
Louvre
Clark Art Institute
National Gallery
New York
Ugolino da Siena
Sterling
Fragonard
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Conn
Baker
Juilliard School
Ralph Mixer
Hartford
Middlebury
Randolph
Patricia Prandini
Mary Brunina
UVM
Janine Lincourt
Castleton State College
Christina Hart
Burgess Road
Mary Ellen Harvey
Main St
BCHS
John Wiskoski
Janine
Chef
Mary
Plymouth Colony
Massachusetts
The
Loyal Order of Moose
Illinois
Mooseheart
Ian
Joe Shaffe
Nathan Levin
North Street
Lower Main Street
Main
Shaffe
Everett Lillie
Portland
Ore
Ladies For
Morrow
Malvine Cole’s
Stratton Mountain
Jamaica and
Bondville
Elsie Taft
Jamaica
Nikos Psacharopoulos
Williamstown Theatre
Athens
Greece
Psacharopouli
Aillane
Barbara Ploof
Kenneth Clayton
Pippin Knoll
Liberia
Peace Corps
Barbara
Ing
Tom
Bob
General Motors
Worthy Inn
Bennington County
Rotarians
Claren Corey
Michael Corey
Kathleen Stearns
Christine Waite
Sharon Clark
Charles Marra
Maria Whitman
Dale Whitman
Meredith Whitman
Linda Williamson
Donald Lewis
William Carey
Steven Carey
Bennington Banner
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
U.S
Bennington, VI
Metropolitan Museum
Sinclair
Dino
Warrior
Chevrolet
Biscayne
W.H
Eddington
Bennington, VT
DIAL
Benn
Main Street
Fienberg
First National Stores
North Bennington Rd
Kraft's Jet
R& H
Liggettbosworth
North Bennington Road
Swift
Porterhouse
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