Full Circle Recorders

For seven summers now, members of Full Circle have performed at Woodwinds in the Barn, a special mini-concert for members of Vermont Family Farms (VFF) and their guests.

The event is held in the Middle Barn on beautiful property in Lincoln, for many years the home of Lester and Monique Anderson.

Along with performing in a lovely setting, Full Circle also gets to play on wonderful recorders that were once owned by the Andersons. For the 2017 concert, we used a soprano and four altos, two with modern or standard pitch and two low-pitch instruments that are more like those used in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Our program was exclusively Baroque chamber music, a favorite genre of Lester and Monique.

The Andersons were co-founders of VFF and were the first landowners to donate a forever-wild easement to Northeast Wilderness Trust. They also established the Colby Hill Ecological Project, which has gathered and published ecological data for two decades.

Our host for Woodwinds in the Barn was David Brynn, VFF Executive Director and Conservation Forester.

After the short concert, guests and performers were treated to cider (made right there at the farm!), wine, cheese, crackers and fruit.

We then went outside for pizzas cooked in a wood-fired oven constructed this summer by David, Sharon and Sharon’s son.

As a perfect ending to the event, we were treated to an Original Sachertorte, shipped by a relative of Lester and Monique all the way from the Hotel Sacher in Vienna.