Central Vermont Chamber Music
Festival Now in its Final Week

The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival plays its final Chandler Music Hall concert this Saturday Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. Rehearsing here are four of the top0-flight New York professionals who create the Festival every year. From top left, clockwise, they are Arturo Delmoni, Adela Pe¤a, Festival Director Peter Sanders, and David Cerutti. (Hereald / Bob Eddy)

The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival ended its first week of residency in Randolph this past Sunday with a free outdoor concert of spirited music by Scottish violin masters, performed by Paul Woodiel and Susie Petrov at the Three Stallion Inn.

There are three more events of the series to be written into calendars for this week: the special Friday morning children’s concert (see separate article in this section), the final evening concert at Chandler Music Hall, Saturday Aug. 18 at 8 p.m.; and an encore matinee performance Sunday, Aug. 19 at 4 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Woodstock.

As always, a slight changing of the guard has occurred in the lineup of musicians for this second week of the festival. Violinist Arturo Delmoni and cellist Peter Sanders are joined by festival veterans violinist Adela Peña, violist David Cerutti, and pianist, Cameron Grant. On the program are Brahms' youthful and yet career-building Piano Quartet #2 in Major, Opus 26 and the Shostakovich Piano Quintet in g minor, Opus 57, one of his best known chamber works and described by his biographer, Simon Volkov, as having "never-ending charm."

There is another free Thursday evening open rehearsal scheduled for tonight, August 16, beginning at 7 p.m. at Chandler. Those who are curious to see how these professionals come together for music festivals and rehearse for the programs are welcome to just stop by and listen.

Tickets for the concert in Woodstock may be obtained through Pentangle Arts Council at 802-457-3981, through their website, www.pentangleArts.org, and at the door.

Tickets for the Chandler concert are available through the Chandler box office at 728-6464 weekdays from 3-6 p.m., through their website at www.chandler-arts.org, and at the door. Students under the age of 18 are eligible for free admission through a generous grant from Randolph’s William Markle.

The festival is presented in partnership with Chandler Center for the Arts and is co-sponsored by the classical music station WCVT 101.7 FM. Chandler Music Hall is air conditioned and handicapped accessible.

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Special Children’s Concert

Friday Morning at Chandler

The Central Vermont Chamber Music Festival will present its special annual Children’s Concert at Chandler Music Hall Friday, Aug. 17 at 11 a.m.

For the festival musicians, this is always a highlight of their stay in Randolph. This year, festival founder and director, cellist Peter Sanders found a chamber music score for Camille Saint-Saëns’ "Carnival of the Animals," a popular favorite among music teachers and children. Usually performed by full orchestra, it also often includes an amusing narration. As a special treat, Randolph’s own Charlie McMeekin will be the narrator for the several movements, which include sketches of a lion, an elephant, barnyard fowl, kangaroos, fish, a beautiful swan, a donkey, turtles, and others.

Tickets will be available at the door. This performance for youth of all ages has been made possible, in part, through a grant by the Lamson Howell Foundation.