Sage City Symphony maintains its relationship with the college, relying on the campus for rehearsal and performance space.
The Symphony attracts amateur as well as professional musicians without the requirement of auditions, drawn from Vermont, Massachusetts and New York states.
It presents four concerts a year, starting rehearsals in September for a performance featuring a major orchestral work in November.
[9] Most performances for the last several years have been recorded by Joel Patterson [10] of Mountaintop Studios and rendered onto CD or made available for file sharing.
[12] The Symphony also solicits sponsors for concerts, which have included a range of enterprises such as the Bank of Bennington, the Vermont Country Store, Stewart's Shops and more.
[19] He has regularly collaborated with New York's leading new music ensembles and performed [20] under the direction of Leonard Bernstein and Pierre Boulez.
Past performances have included works with the Symphony and the Bennington Children's Chorus and the Green Mountain Youth Orchestra.
[6][18][25] The Symphony pays a stipend to a mentor[6] to help young people prepare works for orchestral performance, alternating each year between reaching out to area high school or college age students.
[4] A recording of The Tinkerer,[28] a piece from Sage City Symphony's March 2014 Youth Concert, has been made available on musescore.com by its composer, Zack Weishaus, along with an animated score.