Elizabeth Reid performs
The Meteorology Suite
A recording of "Saxon Songs"
The splendid harpist Kirk Kupensky
has produced a recording
of the complete "Saxon Songs" collection. Kirk is joined by vocalist Richard Brentar. Together these fine musicians perform my translations and settings of some of the earliest English poetry: riddles and lyrics from the Exeter Book along with three Anglo-Saxon charms. In addition, Kirk plays the harp solos from the collection: "Three Old English Kennings" and the "Lament for Beowulf."
The Christmas Truce
In 2023, as part of their beloved traditional holiday program, Nat Lew led Vermont's Counterpoint Chorus and the VSO Brass in the premiere of this setting of letters and diaries from soldiers at the front in 1914.
Arioso Tour 2022
Moments from the Program:
Wonderful Vermont musicians Alison Cerutti (piano), Elizabeth Reid (viola), and Linda Radtke (alto) perform the world premiere of Six Curses and a Charm
The Green Mountain Chorus
In the summer of 2022 at Charlotte, VT, the Green Mountain Chorus led by Neil Cerutti debuted "My First Love Was a Plover," a piece for male chorus with lyrics by the Welsh poet Twm Morris
Songs of Love and Time
In the summer of 2016, a program of John Wood reading his poetry, and settings of poems by John and other poets, with Kristin Carmichael-Bowers, soprano, and Cassandra Willette, flute.
Saxtons River Suite Premiere
Counterpoint Chorus, conducted by Nathaniel G. Lew, and four members of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (Katherine Winterstein, violin, Heidi Soons, harp, Anne Janson, flute, and John Dunlop, cello) performed the suite at Main Street Arts in Saxtons River. The five movements of the suite are settings of five poems by four Vermont poets, and five newly created theatre backdrops, painted by Donald Saaf (Summer), Michele Ratte (Fall), Eric Aho (Winter), Charlie Hunter (Mud Season), and Julia Zanes (Spring), were unveiled.