Tickets for the 2012 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy are now available for purchase. Ticket booklets have been sent, but if you haven’t received one, click here to see a PDF of the document. There will be 262 events in 31 days (July 6-August 5). Many of the events are free, and we will [...]
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Lois Conrad is a graduate of Georgetown University and has masters and Ph.D. degrees in 19th century British literature and autobiography from Tulane University in New Orleans. Her professional life was spent in undergraduate college admissions, having served as Associate Dean of Admissions for Georgetown University and Dean of Admissions for Tulane. She also served as President of [...]
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I am pleased to announce that Larry Alan Smith has signed a new contract with Wintergreen Performing Arts (WPA) and will continue to serve as its Artistic and Executive Director through the 2015 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival. Dr. Smith, known to most as Larry, has served in that role since April 2006, following the WPA [...]
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When the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra has its first concerts on July 14 & 15, a familiar face will be missing. Violinist Jeremy Mulholland has been asked to conduct the Convention Orchestra at the Phi Mu Alpha National Convention in Orlando, Florida. PHI MU ALPHA SINFONIA FRATERNITY OF AMERICA Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the world’s [...]
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We all have many fond memories of the Italian saxophone quartet, Quartetto di Sassofoni Accademia . . . special guests during the 2011 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival. Click on the link below to see a recent news report that appeared on TV in the Region of Molise. Unless you plan to practice your Italian, you [...]
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Sometimes . . . just a few words are all you need . . . not an entirely new post. As a result, Larry Alan Smith, WPA’s Artistic and Executive Director, will use this post as an on-going blog. So check back often as Larry blogs away abouta variety of WPA-related topics. May 6 – [...]
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As you may have heard, the theme will be INNOVATION 2012. What on earth does that mean? Well . . . for as long as human beings have inhabited the planet, there have been innovators . . . people who move us in new directions. However, the entire history of mankind may just be a [...]
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Lois V. Conrad, President of Wintergreen Performing Arts, interviews WPA’s Artistic and Executive Director, Larry Alan Smith. Planning for the 2012 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival and Academy is in full swing. The festival will run from July 6 through August 5, 2012 at Wintergreen Resort in Wintergreen, Virginia. This year’s theme: INNOVATION 2012 Enjoy!
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Excerpts from a Heavenly Descants Publications press release: Heavenly Descants for Trumpet on 118 Hymn Tunes by Susan Sievert Messersmith (a member of the Wintergreen Festival Orchestra) is the newest release from Heavenly Descants Publications. The C Trumpet Edition is available now, and the B-flat Edition should be available before Christmas. These original descants have [...]
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Wintergreen Performing Arts celebrated 15 years of music festivals with the 2011 Wintergreen Summer Music Festival. We marked this milestone in several different ways. Larry Luessen, one of WPA’s board members, wrote an article for the current issue of The Link (the newsletter of the Wintergreen Mountain Homesteaders Association). Click here to read the article. [...]
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