Manchester Music Festival engages, inspires, and grows a supportive audience for classical music, performed at the highest level of artistic excellence, and teaches exceptional young performers in the art of chamber music.

This summer, Manchester Music Festival explores "Music and Storytelling," illuminating the profound connections between literature, poetry, song, and music.

Schedule of Events:

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: "Birding by Ear"

Location: Manchester Community Library, 138 Cemetary Ave., Manchester, VT

Manchester Music Festival's Discovery programs bring knowledge and insight to the music on our stages through informal talks, demonstrations, interviews, book signings and other events in the community. 

Composer Perry Goldstein will talk about his collaboration with author Richard Powers, "Birding by Ear." The work is a setting of six poems by Powers and will be performed July 31 as part of the Manchester Music Festival's Thursday Nights Mainstage Series.  

Powers and Goldstein will be joined by violinist Philip Setzer, cellist Paul Watkins, pianist Gilles Vonsattel, and baritone Randall Scarlata to provide musical illustrations of the themes the composer and author explore.