16 November 2009

• TODAY! Mark Mitton, performance artist

  
  

  Professional sleight-of-hand artist, magician, performance artist, and expert on perception Mark Mitton gives a lecture-demonstration and Q&A. He is fascinated by using magic and art as a way to better understand how we all see the world.
  
  Monday, November 16, at 4:30 P.M., in the Johnson Building, Room 304. Free

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• TONIGHT! Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble

  
  

  Directed by Steven Klimowski, the VCME is dedicated to performing and commissioning today’s music. Their concert program features the premiere of a piece by Peter Hamlin ’73, chair of the Department of Music. This piece is based upon a series of photographs by his wife, Chris Robbins.
  
  Monday, November 16, at 8:00 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

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• Novecento

  
  

  This spirited play by Nerina Cocchi '10 is an adaptation from Alessandro Baricco’s monologue into a five-actor play about Danny Boodman T.D. Lemon Novecento, a genius jazz pianist born in 1900 aboard the oceanliner "Virginian." Senior work of Nerina Cocchi '10 (directing) and intermediate work of Heather Pynne '11 (light design).
  
  Wednesday-Saturday, November 18-21, at 8:00 P.M. each evening, on the Wright Theatre Stage. Free

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• Gallery Talk: The Art of Devotion

  
  

  Museum designer Ken Pohlman invites members of the Friends of the Art Museum to a “Behind the Scenes” gallery talk, where he discusses the design and installation of the exhibition The Art of Devotion.
  
  Thursday, November 19, at 5:30 P.M., at the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Membership and Information: 802.443.2034 or asolomon@middlebury.edu.

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• Recital by Students of Diana Fanning

  
  

  Students perform a beautiful variety of works by Debussy, Liszt, Chopin, Beethoven, and more. The performers are: Carrie Feng ’12, Raina Kennedy ’12, Kaveh Waddell ’13, Frances Aderhold ’13, Richard Chen ’13, Sean Dennison ’11 (with Zheng Zheng ’11, violin, and Sarah Harney ’12, cello), Nicholas Tkach ’11, Daniel Vikum ’12, Julie Seo ’12, Marina Pravdic ’10, and DaWeon Ryu ’10.
  
  Thursday, November 19, at 8:00 P.M, in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

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• The Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble

  
  

  photo Brett Simison

  Celebrating 75 years of big-band music at Middlebury, the ensemble plays contemporary compositions and arrangements, as well as a nod to the best music of the swing era. Dick Forman, director.
  
  Friday, November 20, at 8:00 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free

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• Fall Dance Concert

  
  

  Alena Giesche '11, photo Alan Kimara Dixon

  Advanced student choreographers under the direction of Christal Brown and Jennifer Ponder show their newest works. Featured choreographers are Catherine Miller '11, Elizabeth Boles '10, Alexandra Vasquez '12, Sophie Levine '10, Philippe Bronchtein '10, and Sonia Hsieh' 11, and Simon Thomas-Train ’09.
  
  Friday–Saturday, November 20–21, at 8:00 P.M., in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Tickets: $10/8/6, 802.443.MIDD (6433) or http://go.middlebury.edu/tix.

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• Desdemona: A Play About A Handkerchief

  
  

  Paula Vogel's 1979 play follows the central and re-imagined female characters of Shakespeare's Othello, creating a feminized universe largely unseen in the master text. Senior acting work of Claire Graves '10 and Emily Kron '10.
  
  Friday-Sunday, November 20-22, at 8:00 P.M. each evening, plus 10:30 P.M. on Friday only; in the Hepburn Zoo. Tickets: $4, 802.443.MIDD (6433) or http://go.middlebury.edu/tix.

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• Waltz with Bashir

  
  

  Surprised and intrigued by his inability to remember his time in the Israeli Army during the first Lebanon war, director Ari Folman interviews friends and comrades around the world to recover the truth. Folman presents his story in stunning animation with the help of chief illustrator David Polonsky. “A memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film”— New York Times.
  
  Saturday, November 21, at 3:00 and 8:00 P.M., in Dana Auditorium. Free

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• Middlebury College Community Chorus

  
  

  A concert in celebration of the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, and singers from towns and villages throughout Addison County and across the lake in New York State. The program includes music by Handel, Mendelssohn, Vermont composer Gwyneth Walker, Middlebury's Peter Hamlin '73, and more. Jeff Rehbach conducts.
   
  Sunday, November 22, at 3:00 P.M., in Mead Chapel. Free

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