That old New England music and its quick tunes
A review of That old New England music just ain't what it ought to be and Quick Tunes Any Good Times by Newton F Tolan and Willem L Baukan. Geoffrey Chapman discusses planxty hornpipe strathspey rant and the revival of authentic New England square dance heritage noting modern jigs and reels diverge from traditional forms.
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New England
Newton F
Tolan
Willem L
Baukan Publishers
Dublin
Geoffrey Chapman
Vermont's Abby Hemenway Inspired Old Way Music Tale
Article traces New Hampshire based musician Newt Tolman and Kay Gilbert as they preserve authentic New England square dance tunes. It covers Tolman’s life, Nelson Music Collection of 60 scores, and the pair’s 1969 collaboration leading to an LP recording, highlighting rural roots and early exposure to Newport audiences.
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Nelson
N.H
Newt Tolman
Kay Gilbert
New Hampshire
Tolman
Mg. Gilbert
Gilbert
Art Critics Question Museums Price Practices
Milton R. Bass discusses art knowledge and notes a New York Times report about the Metropolitan Museum of Art selling and trading paintings at prices below or above market value. He suggests the situation questions public perception of art value and taste.
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Milton'r
Bass
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
New York Times
Artful Stumblers Tale Behind Museum Power and Wealth
A critical portrait of Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving, head of a major museum, detailing his elite upbringing, education at Princeton, Marine service, and ascent from Met assistant to director. The piece links his status to his family’s Tiffany’s wealth and notes budget strains in keeping artworks pristine amid changing museum economics.
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Thomas Pearsall Field Hoving
Stockbridge
Bonnie Brae
Prospect Hill
Walter Hoving
Tiffany’s
Tom
Princeton
Marine Corps
Met
New York
John Lindsay
Winter Scenes Exhibit at Village Gallery in Manchester
The Village Gallery at the Southern Vermont Art Center on Union Street features Winter Scenes with 31 member artists. Through Feb 22, oil paintings include works by Webb, Jones, Ehrich, Montague, Hippon, Zecher, Shokler, Kitts Wires, Gilbert, Doane, Comito, Frey, Parsons, Peltz, Brown, Debus, Give Wood, Clark, Jarvis, Kirby, Lambert, Cook, Frasier, Frick, Baker, Hunter, Schafer, Ward, and more with pastels, acrylics, watercolors, lithographs and wood engravings. Open Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm. admission is free.
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Manchester
Southern Vermont Art Center
Union Street
Galeries
Washington
Virginia Webb
Arthur Jones
Lea Ehrich
James L. Montague
Mildred Hippon
Liley S. Zecher
Harry Shokler
Hazel Kitts Wires
Janet Gilbert
Lucy Doane
Nicholas A. Comito
Wilbur Frey
Tom Parsons
Stratton
William Peltz
Linda Olson Brown
Wilcox Barns
Suzanne Debus
Give Wood
Hitchcock
Alberta Clark
Win Jarvis
Edna Kirby
Alicia Lambert
Yeontha Cook
Nancy Frasier
Georgianna Dolan
John Melecsinsky
Paul Carter
Robert Frick
Dorothy Baker
Mel Hunter
Wintec
Alice Pauline Schafer
Titmouse
Virginia Ward
Aphasia film at McCullough Mansion showcased by Paul Gray
A seriocomic screening titled Aphasia presented last weekend at the McCullough Mansion. Gretchen Gray led the performance and sound design while Paul Gray directed the acting ensemble portraying inmates and their intertwined roles under a female psychiatrist’s hypnotic treatment. The piece used the mansion interiors and grounds for vivid scenes including a chase through a turret staircase and garden ballet of flower-cutouts. The plot follows a new patient within a layered narrative framed by a visiting psychiatrist who guides the viewer through the tangled minds of the patients named Psychedel Queen Electro-Erata Sado- Clown Philos Fatale and more. The final act centers on a wedding breakfast as power and masks clash with the psychiatrist. The production blends nonverbal soundtrack cues with dramatic encounters, leaving audiences torn between watching and listening and savoring the unsettling ambiance.
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Paul Gray
McCullough
Psychedel Queen
Electro-Erata
Sado- Clown
Philos Fatale
Mod Fatale
Mase Queen
Assis
Vermont professor releases folk album Shadows
Vermont College English professor Tom Eslick has released Shadows a self written performed and arranged contemporary folk album He describes the music as poetry sung and notes the collection blends scholarship and singing with songs ranging from family love to social satire The album cover features a Norwich University photograph and credits Eslick his wife and Vermonters who contributed instruments and artwork
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the Christian Science Monitor
Vermont
Eslick
Vermont College
Nassau College
University of New Hampshire
Battle of Malden
Patrick Spense
Jason
Fratty Scarsdale
Harald Krauth
Norwich University
Sue
Dale Parry
New Albums Highlight Classical Strings Barbra Streisand
Records by Werner Mueller Orchestra and Barbra Streisand offer varied styles from bombastic to intimate. Werner Mueller's The Sumptuous Strings provides dinner conversation backdrop with tracks like Jealousy and Fiddle Faddle. Streisand's Live Concert at the Forum features Sweet Inspiration Where You_Lext Make Your Own Kind of Music and My Man, while Floyd Cramer's Class of '72 presents piano pieces for listeners seeking instrumental names.
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Williamd
Laffler
New York
UPI
Werner Mueller
London
Barbra Streisand
the Forum
Columbia
Man
My Man
Floyd Cramer
HCA Vietor
LSP
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Berkshire Eagle
Pittsfield
Mass
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AFL
Publisher's Weekly
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Seagull
Richard Bach
Odessa
Frederick Forsyth
Seml
Dan Jenkins
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Cameroons
Robert Chrichton
Mary Renault
Herman Wouk
Anya Setan
Treavanion
Victoria Holt
Nontictina
David Halberstam
Harry S&s Truman
Margaret Trusan
O.K
Thomas Harris
Atkins
Diet
Robert C. Atkins
Johnny
Kenneth P. O'Donnell
David F. Powers
Newport
Alby Maria Hemenway
Stephen Green Press
Bratileboro
Alla Hemenway
Weemont
Brenda Morrissey
Colt
Anthony Quinn
Yaphet Kotto
Tribte Artiets
SUN
Fea
Biel
Miner P.S
Minerva Books
Monument Plaza
Bennington
Jerry & Louise
Lady Clerge
Gretchen Gray
Tom Eslick
Shadats
Finast
Orth Bennington
Bronington, Vermont
Hudson
PAT Usl Drug
Bennington, VT
F.C.E. Dance
Barbara Tyrell
Larry Clayton
Ed Bisson
Boy — Cal
Shultz Jewelers
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