March 2004

March 1, Monday
Werewere Liking and Ki-Yi Tour Performance
7:30 P.M., McCullough Hall
Werewere Liking is an internationally-famous Cameroonian female playwright and novelist who had to leave her native Cameroon and her family (her children) and go into exile to Ivory Coast for political reasons. Co-sponsored by Office of Institutional Diversity, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Foreign Language Division, French Department, German Department, Women's and Gender Studies Program, Cook Commons, Ross Commons, Wonnacott Commons, PALANA Center, Stephen A. Freeman Fund, Pooled Enrichment Fund, Cook and Atwater Student Councils.
Free

March 4, Thursday
Man on a Propeller: Charlie Chaplin and Soviet Constructivism
4:30 P.M., Sunderland 110
Lecture by Yuri Tsivian, professor of art history at the University of Chicago. Sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Culture, the Fletcher Professorship in the Arts, Ross Commons, the Department of Russian, and the Rohaytn Center for International Affairs.
Free

March 4, Thursday
Salut Cousin
7:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Salut Cousin! is the tale of two Algerian cousins and their mishaps in the racially volatile environment of Paris. Mok is a would-be rap star living the high life in the city when his naive cousin, Alilo, arrives from Algeria on an errand..  A surprisingly comic film in spite of the serious subject matter.[Algeria,1996] 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

March 4, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Penny Chen '06 and Friends, bossa nova
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

March 5, Friday
Vocal performance by Erin King '04, soprano,Ian Fleishman '06, tenor, and Mark Barber '06, piano
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free

March 6, Saturday
Christian A. Johnson Symposium: Treasures Gathered Here: Works of Art and Architecture at Middlebury
9:30 A.M.-3:00 P.M., Bicentennial Hall 216
Cosponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Middlebury College Museum of Art. To register, order lunch, and for further information, please call 802-443-5234.

March 6, Saturday
Adaptation
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
This extravagantly self-conscious movie about a screenwriter struggling to adapt a book about flowers keeps turning back in upon itself in comic circles. Off-beat performances by a stellar cast, including Nicholas Cage and Meryl Streep, keep the spiraling humor barely under control. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [114 minutes, 2002, U.S.]
Free

March 6, Saturday
Fula Flute Ensemble
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
This ensemble's music focuses on the tambin, the traditional flute of the Fulani people of the Fouta Djalon highlands of Guinea. Founded in New York City in 1999, the group comprises some of the finest African and African-oriented musicians in North America.  Its jazz-style approach to mostly traditional Mande repertoire makes an otherwise foreign idiom sound strangely familiar.  Sponsored by UMOJA, Department of Music, Department of Religion, Office of Institutional Diversity, PALANA, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Office of the Secretary, Alumni and Parent Programs, Atwater Commons, Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and ISO.
Free

March 7, Sunday
Diana Fanning, piano
4:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
As part of a concert tour of Vermont and New Hampshire, applied music faculty member Diana Fanning performs Monica Houghton's Piano Sonata (1998), written especially for her.  The program also includes Schubert's Sonata in A Minor, D. 845, Beethoven's Variations on 'Une fievre brulante' , Brahms's Intermezzi and Debussy's Cloches à travers les feuilles (Bells through the leaves).
Free

March 9, Tuesday
Exhibition opens:
Ball Show
Johnson Memorial Building
(Through March 17)  Students in AR 160 have been asked to make seven balls apiece while employing different strategies for making them. These students have created spheres that are solid, hollow, linear, or planar, using a wide variety of manufactured and natural materials. All of these are combined in one cosmic installation, sponsored by the Program in Studio Art.
Free

March 9, Tuesday
Lecture: From "Marcia Funebre" to "Trauermarsch": Orchestral Transcriptions of Beethoven's Piano Sonata
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Dalit Warshaw of the Department of Music delivers this lecture as part of the annual Faculty Lecture Series.  Refreshments are served before the lecture.
Free

March 10, Wednesday
Open Rehearsal with Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
The public is welcome at this rehearsal. Learn more about Ronald K. Brown's award-winning choreography and the repertoire to be performed at Thursday and Friday's performances.
Free

March 10, Wednesday
Helena Baillie, violin and viola
Dina Vainshtein, piano
7:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
This duo's program includes music by Vitali, Schumann, Prokofiev, Mozart, and Bartok. Sponsored by Brainerd Commons and Department of Music.
Free

March 11, Thursday
Master Class with Ronald K. Brown
9:30 A.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
This master class with Ronald K. Brown is open to the public. Attendees may observe or participate alongside Middlebury College dance students.  Call 802-443-5245 to pre-register.
Free

March 11, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Beth and Nick Kaiser, contemporary folk
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

March 11-12, Thursday-Friday
Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
EVIDENCE will perform Ronald K. Brown's new work, Come Ye, inspired by the music and legacy of Nina Simone. The work explores the content of her recordings, including the themes of self-determination, activism, spiritual guidance, and the pursuit of liberation. Grief serves as the catalyst for the second work, Walking Out the Dark, which was shaped from poems and letters Mr. Brown wrote following his mother's death in 1996 and set to a musical score by Middlebury alumnus Philip Hamilton '82. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series, Center for the Arts, Department of Theatre and Dance, the Committee on the Arts, and funded in part by the Expeditions Program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, which receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Tickets: $12/$10/$5; on sale Sept. 8.

March 12, Friday
Middlebury College Orchestra
Evan Bennett, conductor
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The concert program includes Beethoven's Egmont Overture; Montgomery's Traversée; and Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 (Reformation).Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free

March 13, Saturday
Secretary
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
After a brief stay in a mental hospital, Lee takes a job in a law firm where she develops a crush on her demanding boss. During their bizarre relationship, Lee moves through the depths of masochism to a place of self-affirmation. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [111 minutes, 2002, U.S.]
Free

March 13, Saturday
Florestan Trio
Anthony Marwood, violin
Richard Lester, cello
Susan Tomes, piano
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Since its founding a few years ago, the trio's concerts and recordings have been received with great critical acclaim. Their Middlebury program presents music by Haydn, Smetana, and Schubert. "Is there a better trio than the Florestan playing today? All three members are consummate artists, outstanding instrumentalists, and ensemble players to the manner born."-BBC Music Magazine Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series.
Reserved Seating. Tickets: $12/$10/$5; available Monday, September 8.
Pre-performance dinner: Rehearsals Cafe, 6:30 P.M. Reservations required.

March 17, Wednesday
The "I's" Have It!
Francois Clemmons
7:30 P.M., Mead Chapel
Alexander Twilight Artist-in-Residence Francois Clemmons turns his attention to Italian Neapolitan love songs and Irish love songs. Expect familiar tunes like 'O Sole Mio' and 'When Irish Eyes Are Smiling,' and other favorites, as well as some new melodies.
Free

March 17, Wednesday
Luna Nova
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Members of Luna Nova, the new music ensemble of the Associated Colleges of the South (ACS), perform 20th century works under the direction of composer and ensemble conductor James Romig. The concert caps a day-long conference on technology in the music curriculum, sponsored by the Center for Educational Technology with funds from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Free

March 18, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: chill b., acoustic rock
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

March 30, Tuesday
Behind-the-Scenes Lunch and Discussion: Never Swim Alone and Waltz #6
12:30 P.M.; Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theatre
Director Claudio Medeiros '90 introduces this double-bill of one-act plays.  Members of the cast and crew share their insights into the theatrical process.  Lunch is provided.
Free

March 31, Wednesday
Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working with Time
4:30 & 7:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Film screening. A land-artist who uses materials from nature to make site-specific works, Goldsworthy allows the elements to have the last say in his beautiful creations, as his ingenious patterns of wood, leaves, stone, and ice move and erode over time. German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer followed the artist for over a year in several outdoor locations, intimately documenting his improvisational process and capturing the serene spectacle of his works and their delicate changes. Although Goldsworthy's private and often ephemeral pieces have been documented extensively in still photographs, this remarkable movie uses the artists own voice to guide us through his process and help us "see something you never saw before, that was always there but you were blind to it." Winner of the Golden Gate Award at the recent San Francisco International Film Festival, Rivers and Tides is a sensual and poetic masterpiece." -Richard Peterson. Hosted by the Nature and Creativity course, this presentation is made possible funding from the Dance Program, the Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Stewart Fund.
Free

March 31, Wednesday
Four Angels Gospel Concert
Janice Harrison-Aikens, mezzo-soprano
7:30 P.M., Mead Chapel
Part of the College's remembrance of the Class of 2003's "four angels," Anisa Gamble, Tiffany Holmes, Maika Prewitt, and Iniko Johnson, who tragically lost their lives during their first year at Middlebury.  The program includes such songs as His Eye Is On The Sparrow, How Great Thou Art, and I've Got A Feelin' Everything's Gonna Be Alright.
Free