Tours of the Haskell Opera House
Tours of the Haskell Opera House are available from May through October during regular library hours.
Bus tours are arranged by appointment and require a minimum of 48 hours notice.
A donation of $5.00 per adult is suggested.
Tours may be unavailable on the day of a performance during rehearsals.
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G = All Ages PG = Parental Guidance R=Adults Only
Performances/Current Shows
Tickets for all events are available at Catamount Arts
Haskell Box Office 802-873-3022 or 819-876-2471, ext 205
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Music Compostion Online Mentoring Program
(formerly the Vermont MIDI Project)
Vermont’s Young Composers Spring Concert: Opus 26
Wednesday, May 1 at 6:30 pm
Opus 26 is a live concert of original student compositions performed by professional musicians. Twenty-seven pieces from Vermont students in grades 4-12 were selected for performance from 104 submissions. The free concert features strings and woodwinds.
Donations are gratefully accepted. Opus 26 is a production of Music-COMP (Music Composition Online Mentoring Program, formerly the Vermont MIDI project) a nonprofit organization that serves over 5000 students as they explore music composition.
Please visit http://music-comp.org/Opus26.htm for more information and a complete listing of students whose selected compositions will be performed on May 1. Listen to last year’s strings and woodwind pieces from Opus 24 at http://musiccomp.wordpress.com/
Donations Gratefully Accepted
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QNEK Productions
Stepping Out
May 3, 4, 10 & 11 at 7:30 pm
May 5 at 2:00 pm
Every Thursday, in a dusty church basement, a well-intentioned but not overly talented group of Londoners meet for tap class—all brought together out of the desire to dance as if no one is watching, and, hopefully, no one ever will! That is, until they’re invited to perform for charity. As disbelief is replaced by sheer terror, can this bunch of amateurs pull together and put on the performance of a lifetime? Well, sometimes—and perhaps more often than you suspect—you can be the wrong person in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong colleagues all trying to accomplish something entirely out of your range and, just for a fleeting moment, find glory in coming together to try.
$15 Adult~$13 Senior/Student
Community Circle $7 with membership card
Tickets also available through QNEK Box Office at 802-334-2216 and at the Woodknot Bookshop, downtown Newport. Email: qnekproductions@yahoo.com Website: www.qnek.com
Season Underwriters: Heron’s Path, Community National Bank, Passumpsic Bank, Community Circle, North Country Hospital, Paul Decelles Financial Strategies, St J Subaru, Newport Rotary, Columbia Forest Products, Jay Peak Resort, Fred’s Plumbing & Heating
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Sunday, May 12 at 2:00 p.m.
Quintessential Classicals V
An Enchanted Afternoon of Music and Dance
QNEK Productions Presents
Ballet Arts
under the direction of Kathleen McCloskey-Scott
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Newport Community Orchestra
under the direction of Ken Michelli
Cinderella
Choreography: Kathleen McCloskey-Scott
Music: Prokofiev
Ballet Arts has taken this traditional tale and turned it upside down! We open with the comical and antagonistic stepsisters, Drusilla, and Anastasia. Just when nothing seems as it should be; there is Cinderella but not for long! From our outrageous hats to our quirky sense of humor with traditional choreography, these pieces take us out of the “mid-evil” times right through today’s themes. Have fun-we sure are!
Newport Community Orchestra
Ken Michelli, Conductor
Program
Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar
featuring the Newport Area Community Orchestra String Section
An Evening in the Village by Bartok
Chris Maginniss, Clarinet Soloist
Symphony in C by Bizet
Piano Concerto No. 26 by Mozart
Janice Gluck, Soloist
Benefit for the Haskell Free Library & Opera House
$10.00 Adults ~$7.00 Seniors/Students ~$5.00 Children under 12
Tickets available at the door. May also be charged at catamountarts.org or purchased at the Woodknot Bookshop, Newport
Haskell Box Office ~ 802-873-3022 ext 205
www.balletarts.wordpress.com . www.haskellopera.com . qnek.com
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Ecole de Danse C. Bergeron
Voyage Autour du Monde
Saturday, May 25 2013 7:30 pm
Students from l’Ecole de Danse C. Bergeron of Stanstead will present their annual recital, themed “A Trip Around The World”. Come and join them on an exceptional trip!
Adult:$ 12.00~Child (5-12 yrs):$ 7.00
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Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice
The Magic of Master Fiddlers
Saturday, June 15 at 7:00 pm
The Magic of Master Fiddlers has been a most popular benefit concert for the Hospice Program of the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. and this year it celebrates ten years of production.
Canadian Master, Louis Schryer from Ottawa will be joined by New England Master, Scott Campbell, of Vermont who will both perform solo numbers and together to ensure an evening of great entertainment. Step dancers, Chelsey and Kaitlyn Schryer will offer foot-stomping, open-minded fusion of many influences mingled into the fiddlin’ tunes.
Louis has been playing the fiddle since the age of eight, receiving training in both classical and traditional music. Louis is an eight-time Canadian Open Fiddle Champion and four-time Grand Master Fiddle Champion and consecutive four-time Winner of the famous Pembroke Competition. He recorded his first album as a member of the Schryer Triplets at the tender age of fourteen entitled “Triple Fiddle”.
Scott is a multi-instrumentalist Master bringing emotion and humor to the stage with both self-composed music and original style to fiddle music including Country, Pop, Rock, Classical and Classical Pop. Scott has competed throughout New England and Canada earning numerous championship titles.
All Students $10 ~ All Seniors $16
Advanced Seating $20 ~ At the Door $25 ~ Front Row $30
Tickets are available by calling Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. at (802) 334-5213 or the Woodknot Bookshop at (802) 334-6720 or by visiting Catamount Arts web page at https://tickets.catamountarts.org
The Hospice Program of the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. has been a small yet mighty program since 1980 with the Orleans Essex VNA & Hospice, Inc. offering services to Northeast Kingdom residents since 1969. All proceeds from ticket sales will be used for end of life care to residents of the Northeast Kingdom.
Master Fiddle Sponsors for this event include Community National Bank, Curtis-Britch Funeral Homes Incorporated, People’s United Bank, Jim and Mary Ann Mulkin and numerous other generous sponsors, who without their continued generosity, we could not provide you with a traditional fiddling concert.
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Northern Borders
Written and directed by Jay Craven
Based on the novel by Howard Frank Mosher
Saturday July 13, 7:30 pm
Cast: Bruce Dern, Geneviève Bujold, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Jessica Hecht, John Shea, Jay O’ Sanders, Mark Margolis, John Rothman, Kaley Ronayne, Alicia Lyn Hunt.
Northern Borders tells the story of ten year-old Austen Kittredge, who is sent by his father to live on his grandparents’ Vermont farm, where he experiences wild adventures and uncovers long-festering family secrets. It’s 1956 and the farm becomes a magical place for Austen, full of eccentric people and his stubborn grandparents, whose thorny marriage is known as the Forty Years War. A humorous and sometimes startling coming-of-age story, Northern Borders evokes Vermont’s wildness, its sublime beauty, a haunted past, and an aura of enchantment.
Northern Borders was produced as the result of a unique collaboration between Kingdom County Productions and Marlboro College, where Jay Craven is professor of film and video. The film was made as the outcome of a semester-long film intensive called Movies from Marlboro. It was produced on a lean budget, through the collaboration of 20 young filmmaking professionals and 34 students and recent graduates from 15 colleges, who worked in substantial roles in every level of production.
~Ticket Information TBA~
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QNEK Productions
Annie
July 26 & 27, August 2 & 3 at 7:30
July 28 & August 4 at 2:00
Annie, a spunky orphan girl, and her dog Sandy, find a home with New York millionaire Oliver Warbucks during the Depression. He wants to adopt her but she’s convinced that her parents are still alive. He loves her enough to offer a $50,000 reward to find them. The evil orphanage mistress, the hard—drinking Miss Hannigan (played by QNEK founder, Lynn Leimer) and her brother Rooster, scheme to get the money as Rooster and his girlfriend, Lily St. Regis, pose as Annie’s long lost parents. This Tony award-winning feelgood musical based on the popular Harold Gray comic strip, is currently playing on Broadway in its third revival.
$15 Adult~$13 Senior/Student
Community Circle $7 with membership card
Tickets also available through QNEK Box Office at 802-334-2216 and at the Woodknot Bookshop, downtown Newport. Email: qnekproductions@yahoo.com Website: www.qnek.com
Season Underwriters: Heron’s Path, Community National Bank, Passumpsic Bank, Community Circle, North Country Hospital, Paul Decelles Financial Strategies, St J Subaru, Newport Rotary, Columbia Forest Products, Jay Peak Resort, Fred’s Plumbing & Heating
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Banjo Dan’s Bluegrass Revue
September 6, 7:30 p.m.
The Banjo Dan Bluegrass Revue hits the Haskell stage with a show full of great picking and singing in the tradition of Banjo Dan and the Mid-nite Plowboys. The Sky Blue Boys – Banjo Dan and Willy Lindner – blend their sterling bluegrass chops with the stylings of the “brothers’ duets” whose soulful mountain music led directly to the emergence of bluegrass in the 1940s. Their show is full of energy, fun and great traditional and original music.
The Revue also proudly presents Bob Amos and Catamount Crossing, featuring some of the Northeast’s top bluegrass musicians. Amos, an award-winning songwriter, a terrific banjo/guitar man, led Front Range, one of the top national bluegrass bands from the 1980s into the new century. Banjo Dan fans can expect another memorable evening of great bluegrass music.
Tickets $18
Haskell Box Office 802-873-3022 or 819-876-2471 Ext.205
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Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Made in Vermont Music Festival
Sunday September 22, 4:00 pm
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s annual fall foliage tour, the Made in Vermont Music Festival, visits all corners of our beautiful state. This year several of our extraordinary principal players share the spotlight in music of Vivaldi, Bach, and Mozart. Music Director Jaime Laredo conducts, and solos as well.
The program also includes the latest in our growing library of new music by Vermont composers, a commission by Andrew Massey.
Program:
Bach Double Concerto for Oboe & Violin (Nancy Dimock, oboe; Jaime Laredo, violin)
Burrill Phillips Concertpiece for Bassoon & Strings (Janet Polk, bassoon)
Vivaldi Tempesta di Mare for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon and Strings (Albert Brouwer, flute; Nancy Dimock, oboe; Janet Polk, bassoon)
Intermission
Andrew Massey World Premiere Commission
Mozart Concerto No. 2 for Flute (Albert Brouwer, flute)
Ticket Information TBA
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QNEK Productions
Deathtrap
October 4, 5, 11, 12 7:30 pm
October 6, 2:00
Down-on-his-luck playwright Sydney Bruhl is contacted by a former student, Clifford Anderson, who says he’s written the perfect suspense play and will bring it to Sydney’s Connecticut home tonight. Will Sydney kill Clifford and claim the play as his own? And what about Sydney’s wife, his curious lawyer, and that pesky Dutch psychic who keeps turning up at the most inopportune moments. Deathtrap is often called the perfect suspense play, mirroring the description of Clifford’s play. Does art reflect life or does life reflect art?
$15 Adult~$13 Senior/Student
Community Circle $7 with membership card
Tickets also available through QNEK Box Office at 802-334-2216 and at the Woodknot Bookshop, downtown Newport. Email: qnekproductions@yahoo.com Website: www.qnek.com
Season Underwriters: Heron’s Path, Community National Bank, Passumpsic Bank, Community Circle, North Country Hospital, Paul Decelles Financial Strategies, St J Subaru, Newport Rotary, Columbia Forest Products, Jay Peak Resort, Fred’s Plumbing & Heating
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