February 9, Monday
Exhibition opens:
Recent Sculpture by Andrea Cohen
Johnson Memorial Building
(Through March 6.) New York artist Andrea Cohen's abstract sculptures and installations are known for their riotous color, gestural qualities, structural innovations, and ingenious use of common materials such as styrofoam, vinyl, sheetrock, pipe cleaners, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, decals, and floam. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund.
Free
February 12, Thursday
Museum Unplugged:
The Doughboys
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. On view at the Museum are two new exhibitions: Every Picture Tells a Story,andFeast the Eye, Fool the Eye: Still-Life and Trompe-l'oeil Paintings from the Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection.This week, faculty rock band "The Doughboys" goes unplugged. This week, free coffee and light fare courtesy of the Museum, in honor of incoming February First-Year Students.
Free
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February 13, Friday
Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Due to illness, Ivan Moravec has cancelled his U.S. tour and will therefore not perform at Middlebury. We wish him a speedy recovery and hope he will be playing again soon.
We are pleased to announce a wonderful new artist will appear in Mr. Moravec's stead. Marc-Andre Hamelin is internationally renowned for his musical virtuosity and refined pianism. Perhaps best recognized for his attention to lesser-known composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, he is equally at home with the standard repertoire. Well established worldwide and commanding a strong international following, Marc-André Hamelin has given recitals in Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, New York, Paris, Vienna, and Washington, among many other musical centers. Mr. Hamelin will perform works by Isaac Albeniz.
Original tickets will be honored for Mr. Hamelin's performance, at the same place and time as the original schedule. Though the performance is sold out, if any tickets are returned or released, they will be made available for sale at noon on the day of the show. (Reserved Seating. Tickets: $12/$10/$5)
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Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series.
Pre-performance dinner: 6:30 P.M., Rehearsals Cafe. Reservations required.
February 14, Saturday
Rabbit Proof Fence
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Set in Australia in 1931, Rabbit Proof Fence is a true story of three Aboriginal girls who escape from a settlement camp and trek home over 1,200 miles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [94 minutes, 2002, Australia]
Free
February 17, Tuesday
Behind the Scenes Lunch and Discussion: The Dance Company of Middlebury
12:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Artistic Director Andrea Olsen introduces the Dance Company of Middlebury's upcoming performance of Terrain. Members of the company and design staff share insights on their work. Lunch provided by Rehearsals Cafe.
Free
February 17, Tuesday
Photography's Burden of Truth: Meditations on an Illusive Art
4:30 P.M., Twilight Auditorium
Kirsten Hoving delivers the inaugural lecture of the Charles A. Dana Professorship. Sponsored by the Office of the President.
Free
February 19, Thursday
Museum Unplugged:
Anais Mitchell '04, singer/songwriter
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Every Picture Tells a Story; Feast the Eye, Fool the Eye: Still-Life and Trompe-l'oeil Paintings from the Oscar and Maria Salzer Collection;and Art Now, organized by James Butler, professor of studio art.
Free
February 20, Friday
Joel Sachs, piano
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The program includes John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes, a rare performance of his 1948 masterpiece for prepared piano. Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free
February 20-21, Friday-Saturday
Terrain
Dance Company of Middlebury
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
This year's company presents a repertory concert of diverse and dynamic new works with guest choreographers Paul Matteson '00, Terese Freedman, and Jim Coleman, in collaboration with guest performers from Whitireai Performing Arts. Under the artistic direction of faculty member Andrea Olsen, the program is based on Olsen's experiences in New Zealand as a 2003 Fulbright Scholar.
Tickets: $5/$4/$3; 802-443-MIDD
February 21, Saturday
Master Class with Joel Sachs
9:00-10:30 A.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Pianist Joel Sachs follows up his Friday night performance with this master class for Middlebury College students from the Department of Music. Observers welcome.
Free
February 21, Saturday
Talk to Her
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
From director Pedro Almodóvar comes this ravishingly elegant fable about love and friendship, including a female bullfighter with a phobia about snakes, a manly Argentine journalist who cries easily, a comatose ballerina, and the worshipful male nurse who tends her. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [112 minutes, 2002, Spain]
Free
February 22, Sunday
Katherine Winterstein, violin
3:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
A member of the Middlebury College applied music faculty, Winterstein plays a recital with pianist Inessa Zaretsky, a member of the faculty of the Mannes College of Music in New York City. Their program includes works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Debussy, and Zaretsky. Sponsored by the Departent of Music.
Free
February 24, Tuesday
Gallery Talk: The Studio of Jules Dalou by Alphonse Gaudefroy
4:30 P.M., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Center for the Arts
John Hunisak, professor of history of art and architecture and Dalou scholar, will discuss the Museum's most recently acquired French painting.
Free
February 24, Tuesday
Gallery Talk: Andrea Cohen
4:30 P.M., Johnson Memorial Building
New York artist Andrea Cohen's abstract sculptures and installations are known for their riotous color, gestural qualities, structural innovations, and ingenious use of common materials such as styrofoam, vinyl, sheetrock, pipe cleaners, packing peanuts, bubble wrap, decals, and floam. Her recent sculptures are on view through March 6, sponsored by the Program in Studio Art and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund. Her gallery talk is followed by a reception for the artist.
Free
February 26, Thursday
Winter Carnival Cultural Gala
Center for the Arts, 7:00 P.M.
Join us for an evening of music and fun, for the campus and community, celebrating the city that never sleeps...New York! Return to the feeling of the "Big Apple" with vibrant performances by the Vermont Jazz Ensemble, François Clemmons, and the G.T. Breakers, plus enjoy hot chocolate and hot dogs, fireworks at 7:00 (weather permitting), and the quintessential New York film - Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. Cosponsored by the Winter Carnival Committee and the Center for the Arts.
Free
February 26, Thursday
West Beirut
7:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
This film depicts Beirut, April 13, 1975: first official day of the Lebanese Civil War. The passengers of a Palestinian bus are massacred by the militia in front of Tarek and Omar, two teenagers who live in West Beirut, the predominantly Muslim section of the city. Since their school has closed, Tarek and Omar are determined to have fun, pretending to ignore the tragedy unfolding before their eyes. Hanging out in the city and its streets, they use a Super 8 camera to film what they see, turning the battlefield into a sort of playground. But as they are gradually drawn into the escalating violence that surrounds them, their carefree adolescence comes to an abrupt and startling end. Directed by Ziad Doueiri [Lebanon,1998] Presented as part of The City in Recent Arab Cinema Film Series, sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Religion, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Pooled Enrichment Fund. For more information, contact Chris Stone at 802-443-3482 or cstone@middlebury.edu .
Free
February 27, Friday
Tales from India
4:00 P.M., Museum of Art
Kirin Narayan, author and traditional Indian storyteller, leads a family program in conjunction with the Museum exhibition Every Picture Tells a Story. (again on Saturday)
Free
February 28, Saturday
Family Program:
Tales from India
12:00 P.M., Museum of Art
Kirin Narayan, author and traditional Indian storyteller, leads a family program in conjunction with the Museum exhibition Every Picture Tells a Story.
Free
February 29, Sunday
Shalom-Pax
3:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
A concert of Jewish cantorial music and Gregorian chant designed by Robert Freedman, rabbi and hazan of Israel Congregation, Manchester, Vermont, and Dr. William Tortolano, professor emeritus of music and fine arts at St. Michael's College in Winooski. The program includes Rabbi Freedman's chants of biblical texts and direction of hymns, and performance of vespers and a requiem mass by the Vermont Gregorian Chant Schola.
Free
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