March 2005

March 4, Friday
Yonghoon Lee, tenor
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
A magnificent tenor with dazzling top notes and astonishing vocal power, Yonghoon Lee took Middlebury by storm last summer in the Opera Company of Middlebury's production of Carmen. This concert, including arias from Italian opera and liltingly beautiful songs from Lee's native Korea, benefits the Opera Company of Middlebury, a new professional opera company that performs in Middlebury's Town Hall Theater. Tickets: $20 for the performance only; and $35 including a special post-performance reception with the artists. Tickets available at the Center for the Arts Box Office, 802-443-MIDD, or the Town Hall Theater Offices, 802-388-1436.

March 5, Saturday
Christian A. Johnson Symposium: Art and Nature
9:30 a.m.–3:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
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 5, Saturday
Monsieur Ibrahim
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., DanaAuditorium
In early 1960s working-class Paris, a Jewish teenager gradually strikes up a friendship with an elderly Muslim grocer, Monsieur Ibrahim, who becomes the only adult offering guidance to the youngster after he is abandoned by his father. [France, 2003, 95 minutes] Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. Free

March 9, Wednesday
"Voice Lessons"
(Mostly) Songs My Students Sing
Beth Thompson Kaiser, soprano and Cynthia Huard, piano
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
These two acclaimed musicians, both also members of the College's applied music faculty, perform a program of music from a student repertoire. Free

March 10-12, Thursday-Saturday
Vampire
10:00 P.M. Thursday; and 8:00 P.M. on Friday and Saturday; Hepburn Zoo
Play by surrealist playwright Snoo Wilson. In a satirical fashion, Vampire charts the vampirization of free will through different periods of British history. Directed by Richard Romagnoli. Tickets: $1, on sale February 24.

March 11, Friday
Chavasse Dance and Performance
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
an informal showing of dance works by dancer/choreographer Amy Chavasse, including collaborations with Lisa Gonzales '84, Peter Schmitz, Sean Hoskins '02, and Ellen Smith '05. Free
This showing is a preview of the public performance at FlynnSpace in Burlington, VT, on March 12.  See listing below. 

March 11, Friday
Steven Osborne, piano
8:00 P.M., Centerfor the Arts, Concert Hall
For years, Steven Osborne has been astounding audiences with his brilliant virtuosity. The San Francisco Chronicle described one of his performances: "The range of timbres and textures he can elicit from the piano is simply astounding, from thundering but finely detailed explosions to the barest whispery filaments of sound." His Middlebury program includes Olivier Messiaen's Vingt regards sur l'enfant Jésus(which he recorded in 2002). His piano whispers, roars, sings, and twitters in Messiaen's protracted and ecstatic musical meditation. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series. Reserved Seating. Tickets: $12/$10/$5; buy tickets online
Pre-performance dinner: Rehearsals Cafe, 6:30 P.M. Reservations required.
Read the press release

March 12, Saturday
Elephant
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., DanaAuditorium
Gus Van Sant's (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho) poetic film, loosely based on the Columbine murders, won the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival. The camera wanders a high school as students and teachers go about their routine—a day like any other, until violence erupts. [U.S., 2003, 81 minutes] Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. Free

March 12, Saturday
Chavasse Dance and Performance
8:00 P.M., FlynnSpace, Burlington, VT
Dance works by dancer/choreographer Amy Chavasse, including collaborations with Lisa Gonzales '84, Peter Schmitz, Sean Hoskins '02, and Ellen Smith '05. For tickets, please contact the Flynn Center Box Office at 802-86-FLYNN.  See associated event on March 11. 

March 13, Sunday
Jessica Grigg, mezzo-soprano
David Holkeboer, piano
3:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Presented by Brainerd Commons Rising Stars.  The highlight of the concert will be a peformance of Jorge Martin's cycle A Cuban in Vermont.  The Middlebury audience will remember the performance of Martin's earlier cycle The Glass Hammer, sung during the college's bicentennial season by baritone Sanford Sylvan.  Free

**THIS EVENT CANCELLED**
March 15, Tuesday
Gardens in the Western Imagination**
4:30 P.M., New Library, Harman Periodicals Reading Area
Lecture by Robert Pogue Harrison.

**THIS EVENT CANCELLED**
March 15, Tuesday
Informal Showing: Dance Company of Middlebury
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre

March 17, Thursday
Middlebury College Orchestra
Troy Peters, conductor
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Featuring special performances associated with the Middlebury Student Concerto Competition. Cellist Adam Morgan '08 performs the Faure Elegy; Clarinetist Kevin Ng '08 performs the first movement of the Weber Clarinet Concerto No. 1; and soprano Hillary Waite '05, perform two Handel arias. Also featured are the world premieres of new works by three student composers: Andrew Lindblad '05, Jessica Manzer '05, and Jonathan Stuart-Moore '05. There will be a post-concert reception for the artists and the audience. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

March 18, Friday
François Clemmons, tenor
7:30 P.M., Mead Chapel
Alexander Twilight Artist-in-Residence François Clemmons presents a concert of Irish songs in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Come prepared to enjoy the spirit of the occasion and to sing along to favorites like "O Danny Boy" and "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Free
read the press release

March 31, Thursday (Through April 14)
Print Exhibition
Johnson Memorial Building, Pit Space
Students push the envelope of traditional approaches to the technical and conceptual issues in intaglio printmaking in Hedya Klein's printmaking course, ART 0316. Sponsored by the Program in Studio Art. Free