Students rehearse for 2007 Student Cabaret
The Middlebury College Department of Music presents:
Thursday, April 17, 2008
PIANO RECITAL BY STUDENTS OF DIANA FANNING
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Sunday, April 20, 2008
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE CHOIR, Jeff Buettner, Director
Wolfgang Mozart: Missa Brevis in B Flat, with members of the College Orchestra; works by Leonard Bernstein and Ernest Bloch; folk music of Iran and North America.
3:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Monday, April 21, 7:30 pm
BASSOON RECITAL BY STUDENTS OF RACHAEL ELLIOTT
Middlebury bassoon students perform a selection of solo and bassoon ensemble music, including sonatas by Jacobo Ficher and J. Ernest Galliard, and the lyrical "Rhapsody" for solo bassoon by American composer Willson Osborne. Also on the program: a remarkable new composition for Bassoon Quartet by young Vermont composer, Tim Woos.7:30 pm, Chateau Grand Salon
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
THEREMIN PERFORMANCE by BRIAN ROBISON of the Middlebury College Music Department and friends
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Thursday, April 24, 2008
ADAM MORGAN CELLO RECITAL
8:00 pm, Mead Chapel
Friday, April 25, 2008
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ORCHESTRA
Troy Peters, Director
Violinist Emily Kim Goldsmith '08, winner of the 2008 Alan and Joyce Beucher Concerto Competition, joins the Middlebury College Orchestra, conducted by Troy Peters, in a performance of the first movement of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto. Sopranos Carol Christensen and Beth Thompson will be featured in the world premiere of The Vilnius Duet by Ezra Axelrod '08. The concert also includes Kodály's bustling Intermezzo from Hary Janos and Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, known as the "Military" Symphony.
8:00 pm, MCFA Concert Hall
Saturday, April 26, 2008
ALISON MAGGART, HARPIST, AND FRIENDS
The program features original compositions by Alison Maggart, Will Ceurvels, and Philippe Bronchtein. Alison Maggart's senior work, "Remote Sounds", is an study of the possibilities of and role of harp in modern music, as performed by herself (harp), Adam Morgan (cello), Libby Marks (flute), and Chris Hench (vibraphone). Will Ceurvels and Philippe Bronchtein's "Persistence of an Ember in a Bed of Ash" is a collaboration that explores the confrontation of minimalist and kottkian folk modalities.
8:00 pm, MCFA Concert Hall
Sunday, April 27, 3:00 pm
STUDENT CHAMBER MUSIC RECITAL
Solo & Chamber Music performances by students of the Middlebury College Music Department.
Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Monday, April 28, 2008
VIOLIN RECITAL BY MEGAN GUILIANO AND FRIENDS
Violinist Megan Guiliano ’08.5 presents her senior recital, performing music by Bach, Brahms, Ravel, and Bartok. Middlebury applied faculty member Cynthia Huard accompanies Megan on piano, with friends Caeli Nistler-Schnabel (clarinet) and DaWeon Ryu (piano) joining the program for Bartok's Contrasts
8:00 pm Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Artsa
Tuesday, Arpil 29, 2008
VOCAL RECITAL BY BIL DAVISON
8:00 pm, Concert Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts
Thursday, May 1, 2008
SPRING JAZZ SHOWCASE
Dick Forman, DirectorThe Jazz Showcase features both singers and instrumentalists who have been exploring the world of jazz in private lessons and/or the Music Department’s Jazz Workshop. Previous Showcases have presented exciting, creative work, and this one promises to offer yet another chance to see and hear students mining what has been called America’s National Treasure. The performance is free, and the community is welcome.
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Lower Lobby
Saturday, May 3, 2008
SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE
Dick Forman, Director
The SIJE celebrates the range of big band music from classic swing to contemporary jazz compositions. The band features some of the best of the College’s musicians, who come from Maine to California. It is directed by Dick Forman, a Music Department Affiliate Artist and well-known Vermont jazz figure. The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble has long kept the community’s toes tapping. The upcoming program concludes the band’s inaugural season of performances in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. We’re once again prepared for dancing in the aisles as the SIJE swings into action.
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Sunday, May 4, 2008
COLLEGE-COMMUNITY CHORUS
Jeff Rehbach, Director
Songs for Spring: Music of Life, Remembrance, Reflection and Joy. The program features British composer-conductor John Rutter's Requiem, one of his most sensitive and lyrical works. Also included are spring and summer choruses from Franz Joseph Haydn's oratorio The Seasons; two newly published contemporary American works by Morten Lauridsen and Randall Stroope: Sure on this Shining Night and I Am Not Yours by American poets James Agee and Sara Teasdale; and a set of wonderful works by Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker, including White Horses and the rousing chorus Spring! on the poems of E. E. Cummings.
3:00 pm, Mead Chapel
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Oroginal Compositions by students in MUSC0210
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
SENIOR CLARINET RECITAL BY KEVIN NG
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Friday, May 9, 2008
NEW ELECTRONIC MUSIC BY STUDENTS IN MUSC0212
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall
Saturday, May 10, 2008
MUSIC DEPARTMENT STUDENT VOCAL RECITAL
8:00 pm, Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall