Sage City Symphony Presents Free Concert

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BENNINGTON, Vt.—Sage City Symphony will perform a concert at 4:00 p.m. in Greenwall Auditorium, VAPA Building, Bennington College.

The program includes works by Verdi, Glinka, Sibelius, and Mozart, as well as compositions by students from Long Trail School and Burr & Burton Academy.

The performance will feature:

  • Giuseppe Verdi's "Overture to Nabucco"
  • Mikhail Glinka's "Valse-Fantaisie"
  • Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia"
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Allegro Aperto" (1st movement) from "Concerto No. 2 in D Major for Flute and Orchestra," featuring soloist Julius Boxer-Cooper of Bennington College.
  • Student compositions: "Vistas" by Aleks Rutins (Burr & Burton Academy), "Fantaisie d’un Reve" by Katherine Marthage, "Distance Between the Pinczow Cathedral Walls" by Eliza Olrich, and an untitled work by Keaton Tarbell (all Long Trail School).

Julius Boxer-Cooper, a Bennington College student from Washington, D.C., will perform the flute solo.

Michael Finckel, the symphony's music director, will conduct the performance. Finckel, a Bennington native, studied at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and Bennington College.

Sage City Symphony, established in 1972, is a community and college orchestra affiliated with Bennington College. The symphony performs classical and contemporary music.

The concert is free and open to the public. Sage City Symphony is a registered federal non-profit organization. Donations are accepted. 


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Dalton to Discuss Town Manager Screening Committee

By Sabrina DammsiBerkshires Staff
DALTON, Mass. — The Select Board voted to table the appointments of the Town Manager Screening Committee until March 24. 
 
It does plan to further discuss its formation at Monday's meeting.
 
The board was going to vote on appointments at its last meeting.  However, several residents expressed their concerns that the proposed list of members was not selected in an open or transparent manner.
 
The agenda for March 10 included appointing John Kelly, Gabrielle Taglieri, John Bartels, Deborah Merry, and Craig Wilbur to the screening committee. 
 
"This is a particularly important task because the town manager's the person with the greatest impact on our community," Finance Committee Chair William Drosehn said. 
 
The proposed selection of screening committee members did not occur during a public meeting, so, "I am very concerned [it] has not occurred in an open or transparent manner," he said. 
 
"The work of the search committee will impact every single voter and taxpayer in this town. The people of Dalton deserve and need to be able to trust this committee." 
 
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