Vermont Symphony Orchestra

Jaime Laredo
Music Director

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Turn on your laptop and join the Vermont Symphony Orchestra education team with a new online program aimed at kids who love music! In the second episode in our series, our host Toby Aronson travels to The Vermont Teddy Bear Factory and introduces the percussion family of instruments to K-6 graders. Toby is joined by both professional VSO musicians and young aspiring Vermont musician as they show off their stuff. Learn how to make musical instruments with everyday household goods and discover instruments from countries around the world. We’ll cap off each class with a first-class rendition of the Vermont State song, These Green Mountains. Musical Chairs is a FREE 45-minute program available on VSO’s YouTube channel with new shows on Tuesdays starting October 27 (no new show on November 3). Learn all about the string, brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra families! Musical Chairs is created by Patricia Jancova, VSO Education Coordinator
Musical Chairs Episode 4 - Percussion
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Turn on your laptop and join the Vermont Symphony Orchestra education team with a new online program aimed at kids who love music! In the second episode in our series, our host Toby Aronson travels to The Steamboat Ticonderoga at Shelburne Museum and introduces the woodwind family of instruments to K-6 graders. Toby is joined by both professional VSO musicians and young aspiring Vermont flutist as they show off their stuff. Learn how to make musical instruments with everyday household goods and discover instruments from countries around the world. We’ll cap off each class with a first-class rendition of the Vermont State song, These Green Mountains. Musical Chairs is a FREE 45-minute program available on VSO’s YouTube channel with new shows on Tuesdays starting October 27 (no new show on November 3). Learn all about the string, brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra families! Musical Chairs is created by Patricia Jancova, VSO Education Coordinator
Musical Chairs Episode 3 - Woodwinds
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The brainchild of VSO Creative Projects Chair Matt LaRocca, our newest project serves the present moment with streamed chamber ensemble performances, presented from a variety of traditional and unexpected venues around the state. Your VSO will premiere new works from composers of diverse styles and backgrounds, showcase beloved classics, and collaborate with esteemed creative partners from Vermont and beyond. In a performance season like no other, we’re thrilled to share this music with you! This concert will feature a string quintet and pianist and will be performed from Elley-Long Music Center in Colchester, and will stream at 7:30pm on November 21st. The program will premiere works from Burlington and New York high school composers Alex Wick and Arianelle Arroyo, and include pieces by Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Jennifer Higdon, William Grant Still, Edward Elgar, and Johannes Brahms. Single tickets and season ticket packages are available for purchase at vso.org/events.
Join Us for "Music for Days Like This"
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Turn on your laptop and join the Vermont Symphony Orchestra education team with a new online program aimed at kids who love music! In the second episode in our series, our host Toby Aronson travels to The Boys and Girls Club of Burlington and introduces the brass family of instruments to K-6 graders. Toby is joined by both professional VSO musicians and young aspiring Vermont violinist as they show off their stuff. Learn how to make musical instruments with everyday household goods and discover instruments from countries around the world. We’ll cap off each class with a first-class rendition of the Vermont State song, These Green Mountains. Musical Chairs is a FREE 45-minute program available on VSO’s YouTube channel with new shows on Tuesdays starting October 27 (no new show on November 3). Learn all about the string, brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra families! Musical Chairs is created by Patricia Jancova, VSO Education Coordinator
Musical Chairs Episode 2 - Brass
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Turn on your laptop and join the Vermont Symphony Orchestra education team with a new online program aimed at kids who love music! In this first episode, our host Toby Aronson travels to Bixby Memorial Library in Vergennes and introduces the string family of instruments to K-6 graders. Toby is joined by both professional VSO musicians and young aspiring Vermont violinist as they show off their stuff. Learn how to make musical instruments with everyday household goods and discover instruments from countries around the world. We’ll cap off each class with a first-class rendition of the Vermont State song, These Green Mountains. Musical Chairs is a FREE 45-minute program available on VSO’s YouTube channel with new shows on Tuesdays starting October 27 (no new show on November 3). Learn all about the string, brass, woodwind and percussion orchestra families! Musical Chairs is created by Patricia Jancova, VSO Education Coordinator
Musical Chairs Episode 1 - Strings
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Learn how to clean your trumpet with VSO trumpet player Russell DeVuyst.
How to Clean a Trumpet
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Here's an educational piece for our younger audience members: an introduction to the violin from VSO violinist Melanie Dexter!
Introduction to the Violin
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Norworth and Von Tilzer's "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" performed by VSO cellist Jonathan Brin, cellist Annabelle Brin and violinist Elliott Brin. To learn more about the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, visit vso.org.
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
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Principal Bassoon Janet Polk and Second Bassoon Rebecca Eldredge perform Joplin's Ragtime Dance. Video by John Rae.
VSO Bassoons: Joplin's Ragtime Dance
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