Pete Seeger was a man of many passions and principles. While the late folk-music icon was perhaps best known for the populist messages in his now canonical music, one of his core beliefs was that ...

Contemporary composer and performer Michael Twomey likes to remind audiences that “at one point, every piece of music was new. I won’t go to a concert unless there’s a composition I haven’t heard ...

Here’s what we need now: harmony. On “I Can Still Hear You,” Suzzy Roche and her daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, beautifully blend their warm voices and create a delightful musical counterpoint to ...

When Joyce Van Dee ’81 M.A. ’81 and Linda Chin ’81 M.B.A. ’87 arrived on campus in 1977, there were no women’s a cappella groups. “I knew that there were talented women on campus that would be ...

As one of the only professional vocal ensembles in the state, Counterpoint has long set the standard for this type of music in Vermont. And it’s a lofty standard at that. Over countless local and ...

Before I attended CounterPoint Music and Arts Festival last weekend, I planned to cover it with a typical news story about the performances. But this is a story of a very personal and enlightening ...

Brilliant Melbourne-based jazz saxophonist Fiona Burnett’s album Counterpoint transverses different moods and colours, like light changing on a landscape. This album of largely improvises pieces takes ...

The hot music topic in Los Angeles last week was the cool jazz of a gaunt, hungry-looking young (25) fellow named Gerry Mulligan, who plays the baritone saxophone. For the past three months, ...

Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright Roche, "I Can Still Hear You" (StorySound) Here's what we need now: harmony. On "I Can Still Hear You," Suzzy Roche and her daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, beautifully ...