Music

The Middlebury College Choir shares a program that celebrates the vibrant energy of spring and the hopefulness of community.

This concert features the Middlebury Afropop Band performing original compositions and arrangements of classic and contemporary popular songs from all over Africa. The band uses pop and rock instrumentation as well as styles that blend traditional African with Western and/or Afro-diasporic musical idioms. Both groups highlight the dynamic, communal, and interactive nature of African societies.

Timothy Cummings, Middlebury College Affiliate Artist in pipes and whistles is joined by Jeremiah McLane, accordions and McKinley James, cellist for a performance of acoustic music that explores musical connections across the region of Caledonian orogeny, spanning Appalachia, New England, Québec and the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Ireland, Scotland, England, and even Denmark and Norway. Middlebury College students and Jeffrey Buettner also perform.

Middlebury’s own Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble performs a broad range of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, from the 1930s to the present day.

Run time 75 minutes, no intermission. This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

Come hear the Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble’s Winter Concert, conducted by Catherine Ott. The program features audience favorites like “Amazing Grace” and George Gershwin’s “American in Paris”, alongside music reflecting the diverse perspectives and cultures of the Japanese, Arabic, Latin and American musicians who composed them.

Music for Theater
The Middlebury College Orchestra presents a celebration of music from opera and ballet, featuring Wagner’s monumental Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, glittering arias with soprano soloist Olga Lisovska (’99), and Tchaikovky’s rapturous music to his ballet Sleeping Beauty. Evan Bennett, conductor.

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

Deepest Yearnings of the Heart

Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019) is a one-woman award-winning multimodal performance piece that generates fresh perspectives on the experiences of the nameless African women, men, and children who once languished in the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle and suffered the agony of the middle passage.

Craig Maravich, Director   Carol Christensen, Music Director

Preliminary auditions for the J-term musical, URINETOWN, by Hollmann and Kotis. Instrumentalists will be in MAC 215 and ASM/tech candidates will be in MAC 125.

Composer-pianist Matthew Quayle (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music) presents an eclectic recital of original music, joined by cellist Jameson Platte and clarinetist Kate Forman Quayle. This energetic and expressive program features premieres of several works: Sonata No. 6, Episodes for bass clarinet and piano, and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (revised, in an arrangement for cello and piano). Other pieces include Sonata No. 5 and Quayle’s virtuosic take on the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.