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 In celebration of Lake Champlain’s Quadricentennial, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents its 2009 TD Banknorth Summer Festival Tour, June 25 to July 5 at ten beautiful outdoor locations around Vermont. The tour culminates by the lake at Shelburne Farms on July Fourth.
Entitled “The Lake Effect,” the tour is a salute to Uncle Sam—Vermont’s own Uncle Sam, that is, Samuel de Champlain, who discovered our bordering-on-great lake in 1609. The VSO pays tribute to our Frenchman in America with Gershwin’s “An American in Paris” and a program both Gallic and aquatic: an overture by Berlioz, selections from Les Misérables, Sousa’s Hands Across the Sea March, Handel’s Water Music, and show tunes from South Pacific. Fireworks accompany the 1812 Overture for a dramatic bon soir.
Admission: Adults $29-32; children free-$16.
Summer Festival Concerts are as follows:
- June 25 – On the grounds behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Middlebury
- June 26 – Jackson Gore Inn, Okemo Mountain Resort, Ludlow
- June 27 – Three Stallion Inn, Randolph
- June 28 – Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden
- July 2 - Hildene Meadowlands, Manchester
- July 3 – Grafton Ponds, Grafton
- July 4 – Shelburne Farms, Shelburne
- July 5 – Trapp Family Lodge Concert Meadow, Stowe
Please visit the VSO website for tickets.
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The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is Vermont’s only professional orchestra, delivering programs and services directly to communities across the state and in every season. Each season, the VSO presents nearly 300 performances and educational programs, which are attended by 60,000 people, including more than 40 orchestral presentations in 24 communities. The orchestra’s season begins with the Made in Vermont Music Festival, which brings the orchestra to smaller communities during peak foliage. Two series anchor the season: the Masterworks series in Burlington and the Sunday Matinee Series in Rutland. Holiday Pops concerts and brass quintet/chamber chorus concerts celebrate the holiday season. From late June through mid-July, the VSO tours the state with the Summer Festival Tour, an outdoor program presented in Vermont’s most beautiful outdoor settings. The VSO’s SymphonyKids educational program is one of the most extensive of its kind in the country, reaching 25,000 children of all ages each year. SymphonyKids contains four main components: Musicians-in-the-Schools ensembles for elementary schools; the Musical Petting Zoo, an introduction to the orchestra for younger children; the Green Room musician mentoring program for middle and high school students; and Orchestral Youth Concerts.