Events

Music for Theater
The Middlebury College Orchestra presents a celebration of music from opera and ballet, featuring Wagner’s monumental Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, glittering arias with soprano soloist Olga Lisovska (’99), and Tchaikovky’s rapturous music to his ballet Sleeping Beauty. Evan Bennett, conductor.

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

Deepest Yearnings of the Heart

This concert opens with the African Music and Dance Ensemble Performance class performing repertoire that showcases the stylistic and instrumental diversity of traditional East African musical cultures. In the second half of the concert, the Middlebury Afropop Band performs original compositions and arrangements of classic and contemporary popular songs from all over Africa. The band uses pop and rock instrumentation as well as styles that blend traditional African with Western and/or Afro-diasporic musical idioms.

Voice students of Carol Christensen and Susanne Peck cap off a semester of study with a lively program of classical and Broadway repertoire. 

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.

Come hear the Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble’s Winter Concert, conducted by Catherine Ott. The program features audience favorites like “Amazing Grace” and George Gershwin’s “American in Paris”, alongside music reflecting the diverse perspectives and cultures of the Japanese, Arabic, Latin and American musicians who composed them.

Music Department vocal students present an lively evening of songs and arias. 

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.

Music Department vocal students present Scenes and Songs, a sampling of musical theater from opera to Broadway.

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.