Mount Vernon Music: News

See our video right here. It is in four sections, (just like in sonata form) and tells the story of Mount Vernon Music -- the hall, the piano, and the wonderful community effort bringing the world's most beautiful music into the lives of rural Americans.

OVERTURE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I39j_MgcN8g

EXPOSITION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K31b2jWIg0Q

DEVELOPMENT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsori9v7y8

RECAPITULATION http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOo0LfCG32o

To view the video about Mt. Vernon, recipient of a Texas Treasures Award given by First Lady Anita Perry, visit http://www.thc.state.tx.us/awards/awdMountvernon.shtml. The video features Mount Vernon Music at its close.

Enjoy some time with our friends in the Franklin County Historical Association, and plan to come to the opening reception for the Rutherford Photography Show in the Firestation Museum, April 16, 2010, 6 to 8 P.M.  The exhibit, featuring Dr. Charles Rutherford's photographs from Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks, will last until September 16, 2010.  The museum, located one block south of the Square, sits on the southeast corner of Kaufman and Scott streets.  It is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 A.M. to 4 P.M.

Charles is an orthopedic surgeon in Dallas with a long-standing passion for photography. That fascination for photography began when he was a young boy and his father gave him of a Pentax Spotmatic camera. As an adult, he finds photography to be a respite from his medical practice and a way of returning to nature.

This exhibit is the result of a week-long cycling and hiking trip in Wyoming. He hopes to convey some of the splendor, variety and sheer majesty of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.