Brattleboro Reformer: Brattleboro Music Center: Adolphus Hailstork's Divertimento for Violin and Piano & Jeffrey Mumford's "A Veil of Liquid Diamonds" Jan. 7

Adolphus Hailstork

Jeffrey Mumford

(Photo by Irene Haupt)

Brattleboro Reformer

December 17, 2021

BRATTLEBORO [Vermont] — A string ensemble from Portland, Maine, returns to the Brattleboro Music Center Jan. 7.

In the throes of a New England winter, Palaver Strings musicians hope their program, “Painted Dreams,” helps audiences close their eyes and think of sunnier times. Performers include Domenic Salerni and Maya French on violin, Brianna Fischler and Lysander Jaffe on viola and Ben Swartz and Kamyron Williams on cello.

Tickets for the 7 p.m. concert at the music center, 72 Blanche Moyse Way, are $20 general admission and are available at bmcvt.org, by calling 802-257-4523 or by emailing info@bmcvt.org.

The program begins with Adolphus Hailstork’s Divertimento for Violin and Viola, written as a wedding gift to two of his musician friends, Eva Cappelletti-Chao and Phillipe Chao. It is followed by Jeffrey Mumford’s layered and textured string quartet, "A Veil of Liquid Diamonds." An avid painter as well as a composer, Mumford writes that his work is “inspired by cloud imagery, suspended structures that continually split off and recombine as analogous to the formation of layers of simultaneous musical development.”