Capital City Concerts presents "Pictures at an Exhibition." Two shows: Saturday January 18th at 7:30 and Sunday January 19th at 4PM at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier, 130 Main Street, Montpelier. Washington, D.C., pianist Jeffrey Chappell returns for a unique concert to perform Modest Mussorgsky's masterpiece "Pictures at an Exhibition" for solo piano.
For this multimedia concert, students from Montpelier's Main Street Middle School, East Montpelier Elementary School, Rumney Elementary School in Middlesex, and Berlin Elementary School have created artwork that will be projected over the stage during the performances of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.
M.T. Anderson of Calais, a National Book Award winner in Children's Literature has helped to guide the art students in their creation process. He said, "Pictures at an Exhibition is a piece of music that creates a kind of virtual or invisible museum, showing pictures that have long been lost. It is a museum of music where the paintings can't be seen – until you draw them." And so some sixty students from across Central Vermont have drawn them.
Flutist Karen Kevra will join Chappell in a work by Charles Koechlin, featuring fourteen images from legendary National Geographic photographer James Blair's collection "Our Threatened Inheritance". His photographs are represented in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington DC, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine) and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Blair will be honored at the performance,
For more information and to order tickets ($15-$25) visit www.capitalcityconcerts.org Tickets also available at Bear Pond Books, Montpelier. (Check or cash only-in person)
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