Events Calendar

 

Music Department Events, 2011-2012

(All events are offered with free admission, unless otherwise indicated.)

Monday, May 7, 7:30 pm
Recital by piano students of Cynthia Huard
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Wednesday, May 9, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College African Music and Dance Ensemble,
Damascus Kafumbe, Director

Friday, May 11, 8 pm
Middlebury Spiritual Choir, Francois Clemmons, Conductor
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Saturday, May 12, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Scenes and Songs:  A Sampling of Musical Theatre from Opera to Broadway
Music students present a lively evening of musical theatre, from opera to Broadway.

Sunday, May 13, 1:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Pui Shen Yoong '12, piano

Sunday, May 13, 3:00 pm
Mead Memorial Chapel
Middlebury College Community Chorus
Jeff Rehbach, conductor
A choral concert for Mother's Day with a delightful mix of contemporary, traditional, and classical works. This large chorus with a history that dates back more than 150 years brings singers together from on- and off-campus, and throughout the Champlain Valley. Free

Sunday, May 13, 7:00 pm
Gale Force Winds Quintet
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Monday, May 14, 8:00 pm
Liam Gluck '12, piano
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Tuesday, May 15, 4:30 pm
Lecture/demonstration about the Harpsichord
Nicole Hansen '12
room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Friday, May 25, 8:00 pm
Senior Week Choir
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Previous Events from this Academic Year

Friday, November 4, 8 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Dayve Huckett , guitar, and friends

Saturday, November 5 8 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Affiliate Artists Collaborative Concert
An eclectic performance of jazz, blues, classical, world, folk and new music featuring Paul Asbell, guitar; Tim Cummings, Scottish bagpipes; Miles Donahue, saxophone; Cynthia Huard, piano; Dayve Huckett, guitar; Anne Janson, flute; Damascus Kafumbe, Namunjoloba drums; Steven Klimowski, clarinet; Russ Lawton, trap drums; Susanne Peck, soprano; Pete Sutherland, banjo, fiddle, voice; with special guest John Stowell, guitar. Sponsored by the Department of Music.

Sunday, November 6, 4:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Natasha Koval Paden, piano
In celebration of Franz Liszt's  200th birthday, this concert features his work and the work of composers influenced by his creative style.

Thursday, November 10, 8:00 pm
Chateau Grand Salon
Bittersweet Motel, Lynn Noble ’11.5
This jazz performance culminates a semester of creative music thesis work and includes musical influences from Middlebury and around Vermont. Tunes range from jazz standards to a few lesser-known jazz and blues numbers. The band comprises Lynn Noble ‘11.5 on vocals, Dick Forman (faculty) and Ben Goldstein ’12 on piano, Matt Vaughan (’09 alumnus) on drums, Mateo Davide (UVM jazz student) on bass, Taylor Smith on saxophone, Miles Donahue (faculty) on trumpet, and Taylor Bickford on guitar. Come for a night of music and nonchalant jazz-style lounging! 

Friday, November 11, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Fall Choral Concert
College Choir and Women’s Glee Club, Jeff Buettner, Conductor

Saturday, November 12, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, Conductor
Program features three highly contrasted pieces. Vaughan Williams' Overture to The Wasps of Aristophenes combines buzzing insects with a glorious melody. Tchaikowsky's Cossack Dance from Mazeppa shows off the virtuosity of the orchestra. The major work is the Rhenish Symphony of Robert Schumann; his Symphony No 3 in E flat. Inspired by the Rhineland, including a solemn invocation of Cologne Cathedral, this work also carries the intimacy of chamber music. A concert of increasing expressive intensity.

Sunday, November 13, 4:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
MLK Spiritual Choir, Francois Clemmons, Director

Thursday, December 1, 7:30 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Original Compositions by students in MUSC0209.

Saturday, December 3, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts  
The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble
Dick Forman, director
The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble continues to celebrate that “it don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that swing,” with a program of contemporary jazz compositions and arrangements as well as a nod to the best music of the swing era. 

Tuesday, December 6, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College African Music and Dance Ensemble,
Damascus Kafumbe, director
The new Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, directed by Damascus Kafumbe, presents their premier concert Beyond Drumming. An hour-long program of instrumental, song, and dance performance, the concert highlights Uganda’s musicultural diversity and intermusicultural praxes through original compositions and arrangements of traditional tunes and dance choreography. Students perform on a wide range of Ugandan aerophones, chordophones, idiophones, and membranophones: adungu (bow harps),  agwara (side-blown trumpets), akogo (thumb pianos), bucence (reed-box rattles), madinda (xylophones), ndingidi (tube fiddles), ndongo (bowl lyres), ng’oma (drums), and nsaasi (gourd shakers). Sponsored by the Middlebury College Department of Music, this concert is free.

Thursday, December 8, 8:00 pm
Lower lobby, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Jazz Showcase
Some of the College’s top jazz instrumentalists and singers will present selections from their term’s work.  It’s a celebration of the music that’s been called America’s National Treasure.  The performance is free and the public is invited.

Saturday, December 10, 8:00 PM
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Winter Vocal Recital
Music Department students cap off a semester of study with a recital of art songs and arias.

Sunday, December 11, 4:00 and 7:00 pm
Mead Memorial Chapel
Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas
40th Anniversary Services
In its 40th year at Middlebury, this annual program includes Bible readings of Advent and Christmas and carols for choir, organ, and congregation modeled after the long-standing European tradition. The 40th Anniversary program features music by Tomás Luis de Victoria, William Matthias, Herbert Howells, David Willcocks and American composer Eleanor Daley. Each service is preceded by performances on the chapel carillon. Laurel Jordan, chaplain; Emory Fanning, organ; Middlebury College Chapel Choir, Jeffrey Buettner, conductor.

Let Freedom Sing
A celebration of the American Negro Spiritual and the words of Dr. Martin Luther King
featuring MLK Spiritual Choir, Francois Clemmons, Director
Middlebury College Dancers and Speakers
Anne Ryan, piano
Christal Brown, choreographer
Dana Yeaton, speech coach

 Thursday - Sunday, January 26 - 29, 8 pm
SOLD OUT
Town Hall Theater, Middlebury
Hairspray, featuring Middlebury College students. Director: Doug Anderson. Musical Director: Carol Christensen
tickets: $12 general public, $10 – Faculty/Staff/Alums/Parents of Current Midd Kids, $6 – Middlebury Students

Friday, January 27, 2012, 8:00 pm 
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, Conductor
Andrew Massey conducting Beethoven’s awesome 7th Symphony with the Middlebury College J-term orchestra.

Thursday, February 2, 8:00 pm
Town Hall Theater
Motown concert featuring students in Miles' Donahue's winter term and Chris Waller on vocals
All tickets $6.00 - available through the Middlebury Box office

Saturday, February 18, 8:00 pm
Cynthia Huard, piano
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Friday, March 2, 8:00 pm
51 Main
Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble, Dick Forman, Director
The college's 17 piece band will be featured as part of 51 Main's Jazz Celebration week.

Saturday, March 3, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Katie Dunleavy senior vocal recital

Tuesday, March 6, 7:00 pm
Room 216 Bicentennial Hall
2 talks by Dr. Sylvia Nonnyanga-Tamusuza, Associate Professor of Music at Makerere University in Uganda:
“Female-men, Male-women, and Others: Constructing and Negotiating Gender among the Baganda of Uganda” and
“Dance as Music Not Heard, But Seen and Music as Audio Dance: Theorizing Baakisimba Dance from Uganda.”
Sponsored by the Departments of Music, African Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as the Office of the Dean of the College.

Saturday, March 10, 8:00 PM 
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
An Evening of Songs and Arias
A select group of students from the Department of Music present a variety of songs, duets and arias, from Baroque era to contemporary literature.

Sunday, March 11, 4:00 pm 
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Pianist Diana Fanning presents a beautiful program of solo piano works by Haydn, Chopin and Debussy.  "Diana Fanning captivated her listeners, expressing diverse atmospheres and nuances through the beauty of her colorful playing."  -- Le Progrès, Charlieu, France, 3/23/10   

Friday, March 16, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Francois Clemmons St. Patrick's Day concert

Saturday, March 17, 8:00 pm
Previously announced pre-concert talk will not be taking place
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Gao Hong and Intersection
Gao Hong, a Chinese musical prodigy and master of the pear shaped lute, the pipa, will be joined by her Asian-fusion classical ensemble Intersection, exploring intersections of Western art music, traditional Chinese music, contemporary music, jazz and ragtime. Other members of the group are Nicola Melville (piano), Dave Hagedorn (percussion) and Jun Qian (clarinet). The program includes new compositions by Middlebury’s Music Department Chair Peter Hamlin.

Sunday, March 18, 7:00 pm
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, Conductor
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Sunday, April 15, 2:00 pm
Annie Bogert senior vocal, piano recital
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Sunday, April 15, 4:00 pm
Mead Chapel
Spring Choral Concert
College Choir and Women’s Glee Club,
Jeff Buettner, Director
The concert features College Choir and Women's Glee singing themes of spring characterized by mystery, mysticism and love. The program includes Benjamin Britten's "Rejoice in the Lamb" with text by British poet Christopher Smart Part, and features Emory Fanning, College Organist. The cantata is a litany of sounds, instruments, and figures both ministerial and mystical, and Britten depicted all in mesmerizing musical caricature, awe and reverence. Part songs of equally distinct character by Maurice Ravel, Domenic Argento, Claudio Monteverdi and Volodimir Stetsenko (Ukraine) complete the program.

Saturday, April 21, 8:00 pm
Middlebury College Orchestra, Andrew Massey, Conductor
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Tuesday, April 24, 8 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Original Compositions by students in MUSC0210
Members of Su Lian Tan's composition class premiere their new works. Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Wednesday, April 25, 7:30 pm
Piano recital by the students of Diana Fanning
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts 

Friday-Sunday, April 27-29
Middlebury Bach Festival
Baroque Dance Friday, 6:30 pm - free
Interest Sessions Saturday, 10:00 AM – 3:30 pm - free
Festival Concert featuring Artek Early Music Ensemble, Gwendolyn, Toth '78, Director, Saturday, April 28, 8:00 PM Mead Memorial Chapel, Tickets $10/$5 faculty, seniors/Students free with ID
Organ concert by Emory Fanning Sunday, 2:00 - free

Sunday, April 29, 7:00 pm
Nathan Kloczko '12, piano
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts

Thursday, May 3, 7:30 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Eclectic performance by students in Performing Chamber Music class
From jazz to “ Reich’s  “Different Trains”

Saturday, May 5, 8:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble
Dick Forman, director
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The College’s swingin’ big band, featuring the best jazz players on campus, wraps up its year with a concert that’s sure to set toes tapping.

Sunday, May 6, 3:00 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
La serva padrona (The Servant Turned Mistress) by Giovanni Pergolesi.  featuring Julianne Wieboldt ’14 and Nathaniel Rothrock ’13

Sunday, May 6, 8 pm
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Eclectic performance by students in Performing Chamber Music class
From Shostakovich to jazz to Kingdom of Kink Band