Category: arts

Slideshow: La Rondine

Posted on June 7, 2011 |

• Feature Article
• Multimedia
• arts
• opera
• Town Hall Theater

By Trent Campbell

THE MIDDLEBURY OPERA Company presents Puccini’s “La Rondine.” The show opened June 3 at the Town Hall Theater, with a cast and chorus of professional and local singers under the direction of Douglas Anderson. The show also features a large orchestra under the direction of OCM’s new musical director Emmanuel Plasson. The opera will also be performed on June 8 and 10 at 8 p.m.
Independent photos/Trent Campbell

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Monkton attempts to set a new knitting world record

Posted on May 19, 2011 |

• Monkton
• arts
• education
• finger knitting
• Monkton Central School
• world record

By Andrew Stein

MONKTON — Watch out world, a team of Monkton Central School first- and second-graders is poised to break a new record.

The students in Barbara Yerrick’s second-grade class and Suzy Way’s first- and second-grade class have joined forces to break the Guinness World Record for team finger knitting, currently held by a group of Austrian fourth-graders at 3.85 miles.

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Arts Walk strides into Middlebury

Posted on May 9, 2011 |

• Middlebury
• arts
• Arts Walk

By John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY — The third annual Middlebury Arts Walk kicks off this Friday, May 13, with an initial emphasis on student art that will be found at more than 40 participating businesses.

The Middlebury Arts Walk, coordinated by the town’s ArtsConnect Committee, is a program through which local artists’ work is displayed at local stores on the second Friday of each month through October. On those designated Fridays between 5 and 7 p.m., downtown Middlebury will become a center for art that will include music, food and fun.

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Theater's new educator to lead youth programs

Posted on May 5, 2011 |

• Middlebury
• arts
• education
• Town Hall Theater

By John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY — Addison County youth will increasingly take center stage in Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater (THT) thanks to a generous donation that has allowed the organization to hire an education director.

Douglas Anderson, THT executive director, this week announced the hiring of Westport, N.Y., resident Lindsay Pontius to a part-time educator’s position in which she will cultivate new youth programming for the next generation of aspiring actors and theater-goers.

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