Program:
Hisaishi A Town with an Ocean View (from Kiki’s Delivery Service)
Rautavaara Cantus Arcticus: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre
Slow down, stretch out, and enjoy a playful movement journey inspired by the peaceful rhythm of nature. No prior dance or movement experience is required. This workshop is open to everyone. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows for free movement and bring a pair of socks.
Mahaney Arts Center
This lecture considers the rise of the American environmental movement as a drive of changes in professional-managerial expertise, and how architects responded to a growing list of controls over land use and development with new design tools and techniques of persuasion. Placing architects at the heart of debates over the fate of the built environment, the lecture examines how aesthetic judgment, computational software, and bureaucratic regulation converged to remake both the products and practice of architecture.
Johnson Classroom 204
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
In 1930s French Algeria, indifferent Frenchman Meursault faces upheaval after his mother’s death and a fatal beach encounter with an Arab man, leading to a trial that scrutinizes his detached character in this adaptation of Albert Camus’s existential novella. The story explores his emotional aloofness amid a violent intrigue involving his neighbor and the victim’s brothers.
Twilight Auditorium 101
A Hirschfield International Film Series screening. Please check back closer to the event date for the film title.
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Students: Come early and join your friends for a free social hour featuring traditional Ukrainian drinks—Uzvar and Kompot—snacks, and more. This special event is a prelude to Ukrainian star Maryna Krut’s concert on the bandura, the national instrument of her country. Hosted by the Performing Arts Series and United for Ukraine. Open to students only.
Mahaney Arts Center Cafe
The Russian invasion of Ukraine transformed Bandura virtuoso Maryna Krut from being a singer and performer updating a beautiful tradition of music to being a witness testifying around the world about the devastating war in her homeland. From her temporary home in the west of Ukraine, she travels to the front lines of the war to perform for soldiers. In Ukraine, Krut gained a national following after appearances on that country’s versions of “The X Factor” and “The Voice,” as well as placing in Eurovision.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
In America’s 250th year, the Middlebury College Community Chorus will explore themes related to our shared history. This will include traditional choral music, folk music, and musical theater selections. You’ll also hear texts of influential American writers set to music. This program holds a mirror up to the multifaceted realities of American history, aiming to inspire reflection, careful thought, and social action. Ronnie Romano ‘20 leads the chorus.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center
The Grammy award-winning Imani Winds joins forces with dynamic pianist and composer Stewart Goodyear. Blending music and narrative—and inspired by the African American folktale “The People Could Fly”—this program marks America’s 250th year with a mediation on freedom, memory, and transformation. Rather than a patriotic celebration, it offers a space for reflection—a journey through works by living composers who give voice to migration, resistance, and the ongoing pursuit of justice.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Stop by the MAC lower lobby for hot or iced espresso-based drinks from little seed Coffee Roasters’ mobile cart! Card or venmo only. Watch for the cart on the first Wednesday of the month.
Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio
Learn more about this concert’s music in a free pre-concert lecture by Professor Emeritus of Music Larry Hamberlin.
Mahaney Arts Center 125
No season is complete without our perennial favorite, cellist Sophie Shao, and her talented collaborators. This year, Shao has expanded her circle of award-winning friends to six, who will delight our community with the lush sounds of the beloved sextets of Dvorák and Brahms. They’ll also play Arensky’s quartet for violin, viola, and two cellos—a deeply expressive, late-Romantic homage to his friend Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Rounding out the sextet are violinists Jennifer Frautschi and Kyu-Young Kim, Cara Pogossian and Burchard Tang on viola, and cellist Nina Lee.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
