The Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra, celebrating its 51st season, kicks off the new decade with “Slavic Soul, a Winter Concert” featuring works by Smetana, Tchaikovsky and Schumann. The performances will include: Smetana’s Moldau, a musical portrait of the Moldau river’s rivulets, cataracts, waterfalls and placid wanderings; Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 in E minor, Op. 64 from the funereal beginning to its triumphal climax; and, the Vermont Philharmonic Borowicz Memorial Student Scholarship winner, pianist Sarah Durham, as soloist in Robert Schumann’s Concerto, Opus 54 in A minor.

On Sunday, February 7, the Vermont Philharmonic Orchestra Winter Concert, “Slavic Soul, a Winter Concert”, Lou Kosma, Conductor and Music Director, Barre Opera House, Barre, Vermont, $15 / $12 seniors / $5 students, 3:30 p.m. Pre-concert talk at 3:10 pm (tickets at the door, by phone at (802) 476-8188, on line at the Barre Opera House Web site http://www.barreoperahouse.org/ or on line at the VPO’s web site www.vermontphilharmonic.org.)