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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BENNINGTON, Vt. — Bennington College welcomes alum Katie Yee '17 for a public reading from her debut novel, "Maggie; or, a Man and a Woman Walk Into a Bar," on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, at 7:00 pm in Tishman Lecture Hall. 
 
The event is a part of Bennington's Literature Evenings series. It is free and open to the public. 
 
According to a press release:
 
In Yee's taut, wry debut novel, a Chinese American woman spins tragedy into comedy when her life falls apart. The novel grapples with grief, motherhood, and myths.
 
While at Bennington as a student, Yee was one of the first recipients of the Catherine Morrison Golden '55 P'80 Undergraduate Writing Fellowship to attend the summer residency of the Bennington Writing Seminars MFA program.
 
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