Otter Creek Consort to Perform at Park-McCullough House
The Otter Creek Consort will present Renaissance and Baroque music on July 3 at 12 noon on the porch of the Big House. The group formed by Stephen Procter and Denis Parker will offer a luncheon of lemonade and Victorian delicacies with house tours from 12 to 4 p.m. Local performers Connie Vail and Diane Daily complete the ensemble.
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Otter Creek
Park- McCullough House
Big House
Otter Creek Consort
Stephen Procter
Denis Parker
Middlebury College
Procter
Parker
Philip Rhinelander
Middlebury
Christopher Parkening
Connie Vail
Diane Daily
Middlebury Woodwind
Williamstown Harpsichord Recital By Victor Hill At Clark
Victor Hill of Williamstown will present a free harpsichord recital at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williams on Sunday July 3 at 3 p.m. The program features works by Pachelbel Boehm and Bach including Poultry variations on Was Gott, Bach's Ciacona in F minor, and Bach preludes fugal pieces. Hill a Williams associate professor of mathematics directs Griffin Hall Concerts and serves as organist choirmaster at St. Johns in Williamstown. He studied with Gustav Leonhardt and will perform on a 1968 Schutze harpsichord modeled on a 1745 Dulcken.
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Williamstown
Mass
Victor Hill
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Pachelbel
Boehm
Bach
Johann Pachelbel
Erfurt
Hill
Gott
Ciacona
Griffin Hall
Williams
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Gustav Leonhardt
United States
Europe
Schuetze
Antwerp
Bolton Valley Bluegrass Festival Opens July 4 at Noon
The second annual Bolton Valley Bluegrass Festival begins at noon on Monday July 4 at Bolton Valley Resort in Bolton VI. Performers include Joe Val and the New England Bluegrass Boys Coco and the Lonesome Road Band Pine Island String Band Banjo Dan and Midnight Plowboys and the Southern Vermont Old Time Fiddlers. Advance tickets cost $3 at local music shops. gate price is $3.50. Seniors and children under six admitted free. Pittman Brothers of Barre host the event.
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Bolton Valley
Bolton
Joe Val
New England Bluegrass Boys
Coco and
Lonesome Road Band
Pine Island String Band
Banjo Dan
Midnight Plowboys
Vermont
Old Time Fiddlers
Bailey’s Music Room
Burlington
Bud Speilers
Montpelier
Vermont Music
Barre
Capt’n Bullfrog
Brattleboro
Pittman Brothers
Modern Dance Technique Classes Begin This Summer
Dance sessions start Tuesday July 5 in Bennington at Green Mountain Arts Collaborative for eight weeks. Laurie Boyd, Williams College Theatre Department choreographer, leads each 4:30 to 6 PM class. Fee is 3 dollars per session or 20 dollars for the full course. output emphasizes modern technique with jazz elements.
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Laurie Boyd
Williams College
Cap and Bells Inc
University of California At Berkeley
Bay Area Repertory Dance Theatre
David Wood
Green Mountain Arts Collaborative
Bennington
Sonatiners Begin Summer Program at Van der Lindes
Twenty children from across the United States stay six weeks at the van der Lindes’ home in Old Bennington for intensive piano study. The group forms small chamber ensembles, with weekly 7:30 pm concerts on the lawn or indoors if rain. Featured this week is a string quartet by Deirdre Sourcliffe. ten-year-old Daniel Stevenson of Virginia returns for more improv. Attendees from Connecticut, New York, Ohio, Florida, Massachusetts, Kentucky, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Bennington. concerts are free with refreshments after.
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U.S
van der Lindes’ New
Catamount Lane
Old Bennington
Sonatiners
Deirdre Sourcliffe
Daniel Stevenson
Virginia
Connecticut
New York
Ohio
Florida
Massachusetts
Kentucky
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Bennington
Kaleidoscope of American Life at Clark Institute exhibit
The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute hosts Kaleidoscope of American Life, a 1840 to 1920 exhibit exploring people, landscapes, activities, and politics through paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, and photos. A related film runs Saturdays at 3:30 and groups by request. Admissions are free.
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Williamstown
Mass
America
Sterling and
Francine Clark Art Institute
Chicago
Whitman
Manhattan
Broadway
Battery Park
Harper’s Magazine
Thoreau
Kensett and Shattuck
Buchanan
White House
Harding
John Wilkes Booth
Grover Cleveland
Zorn
Cleveland
Matthew Brady
Grant
Pearl unlikely in North American oysters, study notes
The text states that pearls are not found in edible North American oysters unless sourced from tropical waters, asserting that valuable pearls do not come from local oysters. It emphasizes geographic limits on oyster-derived pearls.
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North America
North American
Hancock Shaker Village hosts gala picnic and family game
Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield Mass invites families to a Sunday picnic and softball game from 12 noon to 3 pm on July 10. Reservations required. Menu features Shakerburgers baked beans barbequed chicken corn salads and desserts. Adults 6 children 2.50. Members of Friends of Hancock Shaker Village free tours. Call 413 443 0188 or write Shaker Community Inc P O Box 898 Pittsfield MA. Located 5 miles west of Pittsfield on Route 20 USS.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Hancock Shaker Village
Friends of
Shaker Community, Inc
P.O. Box
Second Company stages Conjuring an Event in Williamstown
The Second Company of the Williamstown Theatre Festival opens Richard Nelson's Conjuring an Event at Pine Cobble School in Williamstown with shows July 3 at 6 and 9 p.m. and July 4 at 5 p.m. Douglas C. Water directs, drawing on Nelson's theater career including Scooping at Arena Stage. Call (413) 458-5553 for details.
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Williamstown
Mass
Richard Nelson
Pine Cobble School
Nelson
Yablonsky
Mark Taper
Los Angeles
Arena Stage
Washington, D.C
Phoenix Theatre
New York
Public Radio
Philadelphia
Office For Advanced Drama Research
Theatre Communications Group
Douglas C. Water
Washington
Wayside Theatre
Virginia
Provincetown Theatre
Massachusetts
Fire Death Toll Exceeds Quake Loss in 1906 SF
United Press International notes that the great San Francisco fire after the 1906 earthquake killed more people and caused twenty times the damage of the tremor, underscoring the blaze as the era's deadliest event.
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San Francisco
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