For the Holidays
Christmas in Vermont
     COUNTERPOINTand the VSO BRASS QUINTET
      Directed by Robert De Cormier

As soon as Counterpoint and the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s Brass Quintet joined forces to perform their first holiday concert, audiences began asking for a CD. Now, the brilliant brass and shining voices of Christmas in Vermont,a captivating blend of rarely heard gems and seasonal favorites, is available. This CD begins with composer Daniel Pinkham’s Christmas Cantata and goes on to include a wide variety of exceptional seasonal music. From the West Indian Mary’s Boy Child to the Brass Quintet’s virtuoso rendering of John Iveson’s Christmas Crackers; from the bright Haitian Noel to the reverent Rorate coeli desuper of Leo Nestor and Richard Price’s ethereal Tantum Ergo; from the familiar strains of Adeste Fidelis, Deck the Halls and Joy to the World to the rollicking Good Mornin’, It’s Christmas and the gentle rhythms of The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy ... CHRISTMAS IN VERMONT is a feast for your ears and a gift for your heart.