BRATTLEBORO — RE: “A legacy of music” [Letters, June 5]:
Thank you, Jim Kurty, from the Burdo family. I'm thankful for the start you gave all four boys. Words fail me when I consider your involvement with decades of beginning musicians at three schools!
And thank you, Andy Davis, for speaking for us all.
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It was surprising and immediately disturbing to wake up one morning and learn of Marlboro College's intention to move to Boston, not lock, stock, and barrel...just the stock. But why was I surprised, having watched the slow, painful crumbling of the College over the past five or more years? Because the deal with Emerson is a really, really good one for Emerson. For Marlboro, it's terrible. Astonishingly so. On the upside, Marlboro preserves some 24 faculty jobs, but those jobs...
The central Asian republic of Tuva is home to one of the world's most remarkable indigenous musical traditions. Historically nomadic herdsmen engage in a style of throat singing whereby individual singers produce two or more notes simultaneously, often a low drone and a high-pitched melody or other-worldly vocal effects not found in western music. The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) will bring this music to southern Vermont on Thursday, April 30, at 7 p.m., when the Alash Ensemble, a...
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