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Welcome to the members' page of the orchestra's website!  Check back regularly for updates.

Coming Season:

FALL 2026 
September 14—First rehearsal at Latchis Theatre (open rehearsal)
September 19—Welcome Center fundraiser
October 10 or 11—Putney Harvest Festival collaboration: student concerto reading
November 9— Gratitude and Representation: music of women composers, including Miriam Sharrock and Kirsten Kunkle
December 14—Beethoven (Symphony #4) and Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody

 WINTER-SPRING 2027
January 4—first rehearsal of 2027
February 20, 21, 22 “Hansel & Gretel” at Putney School and Latchis
March 29— Shostakovich Symphony 15
April 17 Red Door & April 19—Latchis: Haydn, Mozart
June 2-5—“Sweeney Todd” at Putney School
July 4—similar to previous years

News from Hugh and save the date...

Hello dear friends in Windham Phil:

Some of you may have noticed over months that I may not have been fully myself. A tiredness, a depletion, life is effortful, some avoidance. I want to share with you what I have learnt about that, and what it means for us as we move forward together.

I have just been diagnosed with a condition called Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia — a rare, slow-moving form of lymphoma. It is genetic in nature, and by every clinical measure I am in the most favorable category. Currently there is almost nothing to be done beyond monitoring and frequent B12 shots. I am not in crisis, and testing continues. I am immune-deficient.

What I understand now is that this condition has been present — and impacting me, and likely also some of you — for some time; long enough to explain my generalized fatigue and depletion, a set of very slow recoveries, what to some of you I have called “the doldrums,” or, summoning a cheeky grin, “doldra.”

For this orchestra, built as it is on something other than the ordinary terms of professional life, I ask for nothing different than what we give one another — patience, generosity, and the particular kind of love and acceptance that has always been at the center of what we’re doing here. That’s not a favor I’m asking outside our values; it’s the values themselves, asked to carry a little more weight, maybe.

Waldenström’s is, in one sense, simply a name for something that has been true for a while. What is also true, and has always been true, is that what we make together — this improbable, unaudited, wide-open community of players — is loving and ground-breaking despite obstacles of any nature

You have my admiration, and a big space of my heart.
With love,
Hugh

P.S. “An Open Evening of Music Making with Windham Phil on the Latchis Stage." All (yes we mean it!) welcome to come and play. We’ll do movements 2 and 3 of Schubert’s Symphony No. 9, and some other season excerpts. 7pm on Monday September 14. Come at 6:30 to get your music, and get settled.

 

Fourth of July Concert

 

On Saturday, July 4, we will be setting up beginning at 1:00 pm.  Any help is appreciated!

 

Everyone should be there and ready to play by 1:30.

 

We will have a final sound check around 2:15.

Concert begins at 3:00.

 

Concert dress:  dress comfortably and for the weather.  Please feel free to wear something festive for July 4th—red, white and blue!  We do have a shelter, but it is questionable whether we will all fit under it.  It is recommended to bring a hat and sunglasses.

 

Music Stands:  Please bring your own music stands!  If you have an extra stand, please consider bringing it for anyone who may not have one.

 

Clothes pins/wind clips:  If you have them, bring them!  There will be some on hand, but not enough for everyone.

 

Weather concerns:  There is an indoor venue across from the field that we can move to if necessary.  This decision will be made by 12:00 noon on the day and posted in the website.

 

Band Directors:  Please make sure your students receive this information.

 

 

Monday, June 29

Rehearsal at Putney School is at 7:30 p.m.

 NOTE THE DIFFERENT TIME!

 A new march will be passed out: Sousa’s Right - Left.

 If you have any other music needs that are not on the Google Drive, please alert Sue ([email protected]) for a copy via email or to be brought on Monday.

Some of the July 4 parts are available here.

Bring a stand light if needed.

 

How to get your parts from Google drive:

 Go to the website at windhamphilharmonic.org.

 Click on Members at top right.

 Where the message says “Music for this concert can be found here,” or similar, click on “here.”

 A Google drive page pops up with the concerts listed. Find the concert for which you want music and click on the three vertical dots on the right side of that concert name. Click on or select download.

 My downloads go to a downloads folder. Go to that folder or wherever you have your downloads saved. Open the zip file. You will see a folder, and in that folder are the parts, separated by winds, strings, etc.

 Open the folder and you will see the parts listed by instrument. Double-click the part you want, and a pdf of your part will open.

Fourth of July

Hello Windham Philharmonic

We have delivered an inspiring season of music, just had a rich and fruitful annual meeting, and now we will prepare a bracing July 4 in short order.
Program centers around:

Sousa (others too) marches etc

Elgar The Pomp and Circ. March we just performed.

Dvořák New World Symphony, mvts 2 (the famous solo) and 4 (finale) ONLY

Copland Fanfare for the Common Man (brass and percs)

Barber Adagio. a string and wind arrangement.

WE REHEARSE, please
Monday, June 22 7pm at Putney School 
Monday, June 29 RED ALERT 7:30pm at Putney School

CONCERT
Saturday, July 4 we should be setting up from 1pm, sound check at 2:15; concert at 3.

Thanks so much!

 

Some music is available on the website....See below. 

The Marches will be available in rehearsal.
The New World Symph: I shall bring along my personal traditional looking parts. Though IMSLP parts are available on our website. 


Download parts here.

How to get your parts from Google drive:

 Go to the website at windhamphilharmonic.org.
Click on Members at top right.
Where the message says “Music for this concert can be found here,” or similar, click on “here.”
A Google drive page pops up with the concerts listed. Find the concert for which you want music and click on the three vertical dots on the right side of that concert name. Click on or select download. 
My downloads go to a downloads folder. Go to that folder or wherever you have your downloads saved. Open the zip file. You will see a folder, and in that folder are the parts, separated by winds, strings, etc. 
Open the folder and you will see the parts listed by instrument. Double-click the part you want, and a pdf of your part will open.

 

Windham Philharmonic Annual Meeting

Monday, June 8 at the home of

Peter Gibbons
62 Juniper Ridge Rd, Brattleboro*

Potluck at 6 p.m. Meeting at 7:00 p.m. Come learn about our next season, review highlights of the past season, and share your thoughts on this joint venture of ours!

*Please do not park in the driveway. There is parking below the house in the grass beside the road.

 

 

 

Monday's rehearsal is at the Latchis, 50 Main St. Brattleboro. Jim Sharrock will conduct.

Logistics: we have access to Latchis stage beginning at 6, please help set up, stands and chairs on site and ready. Peet is alerted, will be onsite and ready with screen movement, he knows this is not a concert. Please support Peet in getting stage back to good order at the end: the Latchis is doing us a sweet favor, and very useful to us.


Musical work: we'll go in the type of order that we are used to for this concert, so:
--7pm-ish 25-35 minutes on Nielsen, (no solo snare tonight). I have no intention of this being a 'run'. I recommend a play-through with crisp stops and restarts whenever any issue comes up: orchestra, please be proactive in making requests of Jim, don't be cautious to do so.
--7:35-ish Bruckner play through, work as things come up. STRINGS: there are some piano passages where I would like you to feel continuous with the sixteenths passed between sections, while maintaining subdivisions that are rich, full, even stretched, every note - however brief - attended to individually. I'll tell Jim where I am thinking of, mostly piano passages.
(Don't worry about Elgar at all, unless someone has a panic button to press.)
--8i-sh take a little break, then:
Stravinsky Circus Polka: I recommend you all play through twice, under tempo, maybe in metronome 80's or 90's. Be steady, highly focussed and intentional. That's all. Don't worry about getting up to speed. Some woodwinds with licks are likely to be absent.
--(Weber: do it if you want to, don't if you don't, don't fret. I actually recommend you don't. Same remark about Strauss Perpetuum encore: we'll give it a charm offensive in our Sunday/Monday final dress/concert stretch.)
--Beethoven: this is likely to be the most useful work of the evening. Just get super-used to the piece, address anything big or small. Generate lots and lots of character. In general, don't be sticky and think-y getting in and out of the fermatas...do not perseverate, over-calculate. An exception is the final fermata, B natural in the bass, twisting upwards into F major at the last minute: much more of a 'moment', then accelerating comfortably into the final super-fast sections. Reminder: these are to feel hushed and motionless, however fast we go!!!
Have a great time! Be engaged and democratic! And then see you back at Putney Sunday eve May 31.

thank—Hugh
what a great experience this concert will be!

and:

Monday, Jun 22 Reh (Putney Sch?)
Monday, Jun 29 Reh (Putney Sch?)
Saturday, July 4 3pm Concert, Winston Prouty

Parts are on Google drive now.

Program: two substantial movements, an Allegro and Adagio:

  1. Nielsen Symphony No. 5, mvt 1 only
  2. Bruckner Symphony No. 6, mvt 2 only

then, everything is pretty short:

  1. Elgar Pomp & Circumstance No. 4 in G (not the famous one)
  2. von Weber Symphony No. 2 mvt 3 only: JUST the tiny Menuetto!
  3. Stravinsky Circus Polka (rental, timeframe not yet known)
  4. Beethoven Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, finale No.16 only
  5. encore: J Strauss II: Perpetuum mobile

 

How to get your parts from Google drive:

Go to the website at windhamphilharmonic.org.

Click on Members at top right.

Where the message says “Music for this concert can be found here,” or similar, click on “here.”

A Google drive page pops up with folders. Click on the folder for your instrument or for the piece for which you want parts. Click on the three vertical dots on the right side of that concert name.
Click on or select download.

My downloads go to a downloads folder. Go to your downloads folder or wherever you have your downloads saved.
Open the zip file. You will see a folder, and in that folder are the parts, separated by winds, strings, etc.
Open the folder and you will see the parts listed by instrument. Double-click the part you want, and a pdf of your part will open.

 

 

 

2025-2026 season concert schedule

.       Monday, October 13, 2025 - Concert on Indigenous People’s Day

.       Monday, December 8, 2025 - Beethoven in December

·       Monday, January 19, 2026 - “Symphonic Variations on an African Air—on MLK Jr. Day”, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor's Symphonic Variations on an African Air

·       Saturday, February 21, 2026 - Mozart "Magic Flute", Latchis 2pm

.       Sunday, February 22, 2026 - Mozart "Magic Flute", The Putney School 2pm

.       Monday, February 23, 2026- Mozart "Magic Flute", Latchis 7pm

·       Saturday, April 11, 2026 -Red Door Concert – Glazunov Concerto in E Flat Major for Alto Saxophone (Nick Pelton) plus Bach double concerto in C minor for oboe & violin and
        Dvorak Romance in F minor for violin and orchestra

·       Monday, April 13, 2026 Latchis – same program as April 11, 2026

·       Monday, June 1, 2026 - “Why Can’t We All Get Along?” – three or four symphonic movements extracted, Nielson’s Fifth Symphony, Movement One (snare drum solo)

·       Monday, June 8, 2026 – Annual Meeting

·       Saturday, July 4, 2026 – Fourth of July Concert – TBA

 

 

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  • Jon Joyce
    commented 2025-06-14 14:16:12 -0400
    Love the Members Page, but can’t seem to find a link from the website itself. Am I missing something?
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