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La Traviata

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ZZ College Choir and Music
The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Verdi’s timeless tragedy in an elegantly staged concert version, directed by Douglas Anderson. Maestro Emmanuel Plasson conducts the OCM orchestra, and Jeffrey Buettner leads the Middlebury College Choir. Tickets: $50/45/40 at townhalltheater.org or 802.382.9222

Town Hall Theater

$50/45/40
Open to the Public

Middlebury College Community Chorus and the Champlain Philharmonic

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Music
Jeff Rehbach, conductor The 75-voice chorus and 40-piece orchestra comprising community musicians join together for a special concert, one of a number of statewide performances celebrating poetry and song. This program includes a variety of masterworks scored for orchestra and chorus, including a new orchestration of Reflections of the Sky, written by Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music Peter Hamlin ’73 for the College’s Bicentennial, which includes texts by Langston Hughes and Middlebury faculty members Julia Alvarez, Robert Pack, and Jay Parini.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Bach Festival

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Music
College Choir, Emory Fanning and an orchestra and soloists of music faculty, affiliate artists, alumni and guests perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach celebrating the Leipzig tenure of the famous Kappellmeister. Interest sessions feature demonstration of the performance practice, style and history behind Bach’s music, and discussion of concepts such as how we hear and perform this music today. The concert includes Cantata 191 (later incorporated into the Mass in B Minor), organ, solo instrumental and orchestral music, and music performed by Bach on this day in 1724 in Leipzig.

Middlebury Chapel

Concert tickets: $10/8/6; on sale April 18.

Spring Choral Concert

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Music
This annual spring concert features the Women’s Glee Club and the College Choir’s 2013 international tour program. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Middlebury College Choir, Jeff Buettner, Director. Sponsored by the Music Department.
Free
Open to the Public

Community Chorus Concert

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ZZ COMMUNITY CHORUS and Music
A choral concert for Mother’s Day, with a delightful mix of contemporary, traditional, and classical works. This large chorus, with a history dating back more than 150 years, brings singers together from on and off campus and throughout the Champlain Valley. Free

Middlebury Chapel

Community Chorus Concert

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ZZ COMMUNITY CHORUS and Music
In celebration of the Thanksgiving season, Middlebury College students, staff and faculty, and singers from towns and villages throughout Addison County and across the lake in New York perform a lively concert for the community. Free

Middlebury Chapel

Open to the Public

Community Chorus Concert

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Music
A choral concert to welcome spring and the month of May. This large chorus, with a history that dates back more than 150 years, brings singers together from on and off campus and throughout the Champlain Valley.

Middlebury Chapel

Free
Open to the Public

College-Community Chorus Summer Sing

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Music
The Middlebury College Community Chorus welcomes area singers to join with members of the Chorus for a special “Summer Sing.” The Chorus will select more than a dozen favorite choral pieces from its recent concerts to sing that evening, with music spanning from around the year 1700 to the present! Stop by starting at 6:45 to meet members of the chorus and enjoy some refreshments, and then join in singing. Jeff Rehbach leads the singing, with Tim Guiles at the piano.

Middlebury Chapel

Martin Luther King Spiritual Concert

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Music
Let Freedom Ring! The 13th annual celebration features the Middlebury College MLK Spiritual Choir, Alexander Twilight Artist in Residence François Clemmons; Christal Brown, choreography; Alex Draper, ‘88, theatrical coaching; Middlebury College student dancers and actors. Anne Ryan accompanies on piano.”Free.

Middlebury Chapel

Open to the Public
Members of the quartet standing on stage with their instruments

MICA Quartet: Rondo through the Ages

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Music
The Middlebury College Music Department proudly presents the debut performance of the MICA string quartet, with performers Marco Matroni ‘25, Isaac Xie ‘24, Amelia Grosskopf ‘24, and Chelsea Robinson ‘26. The hour-long concert will explore stylistic transformation across string quartet works spanning the 18th-20th centuries, featuring works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schubert, Smetana, Debussy, and Bartok, as well as original solo viola interludes that stylistically bridge the works together in rondo form. Senior project of Amelia Grosskopf ’24.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public