Music Director Andrew Crust and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra. Photo courtesy of Vermont Symphony Orchestras.
In Saturday’s (5/10) Rutland Herald (Vermont), Jim Lowe writes, “The Vermont Symphony Orchestra, in conjunction with tonight’s performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, ‘Titan,’ is celebrating its 91st season announcing its most ambitious programming to date. The 2025-26 season also marks the third season for Andrew Crust as the state professional orchestra’s fifth music director…. Crust will conduct most VSO concerts, including the five main stage performances, the … summer pops tour, the three-concert autumn ‘Made in Vermont’ tour, and the three performances of the beloved VSO Holiday Pops. The VSO’s stellar main stage performances, one at Rutland’s Paramount Theater, four at the Flynn in Burlington, include Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ Indian classical music, Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony, Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1, Carl Orff’s massive Carmina Burana and much more. Season soloists include Sandeep Das on tabla and Rajib Karmakar on sitar, violinist Jennifer Koh, soprano Goitsemang Lehobye, [and] baritone Sidney Outlaw … Chelsea Komschlies’ ‘Mycelialore’ was commissioned with several other orchestra, including the Lima (Ohio) Symphony where Crust is also music director, part of a program of the League of American Orchestras [in partnership with American Composers Orchestra, supported by the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation]…. Crust said, ‘The key moving forward is to diversify our audience in terms of age and ethnicity and just get more people into the concert hall.’ ”
