Music

Join us for an evening of sitar and tabla with award winning Indian classical music combo Veena and Devesh Chandra. This mother-and-son duo uniquely unfolds rich melodies and rhythms that are steeped in improvisation. Their performance takes audiences on a sensorial journey through the tapestry of Indian classical and folk inspired music. A featured event of the 2017 NECSEM Conference. Free

Middlebury College hosts this year’s NECSEM conference. Ever wondered about music’s role in social life? Join us! The conference schedule is posted at www.necsem.org. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the Mahaney Center for the Arts, the Academic Enrichment Fund, and the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research. Free

Middlebury College hosts this year’s NECSEM conference. Ever wondered about music’s role in social life? Join us! The conference schedule is posted at www.necsem.org. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the Mahaney Center for the Arts, the Academic Enrichment Fund, and the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research. Free

An interactive presentation by Dr. Zacciah Blackburn, Director of Sunreed Instruments and the Center of Light Institute of Sound Healing and Shamanic Studies. Sponsored by Professor Damascus Kafumbe’s World Music Instruments First Year Seminar and the Department of Music. Free

Middlebury College Affiliate Artist Natasha Koval Paden presents a Sunday afternoon piano performance featuring major works by Frédéric Chopin and Johann Sebastian Bach. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

A recital of selected 19th century pieces, featuring Ferruccio Busoni’s extraordinary piano transcription of Bach’s Chaconne for solo violin, and Franz Liszt’s richly creative keyboard rendition of Mendelssohn’s orchestral Midsummer Night’s Dream. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Music Department lecture by Miriam Kolar, Ph.D. Candidate for Assistant Professor in Music Miriam Kolar’s integrative archaeoacoustics research at the Andean Formative ceremonial center at Chaviin de Huaantar, Peruu interrelates acoustical, psychoacoustical, and ethnomusicological methodologies to reveal experientially salient evidence of ancient musical instruments, practices and settings.

Join student musicians of MUSC 0240 in an end-of-semester concert featuring a creative mix of small ensemble chamber music performances. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Original compositions from Su Lian Tan’s Music I course are performed by the students in a semester-end celebration of their work. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

This year’s program will feature the return of guest conductor Keith McCutchen. Director of the Hayes School of Music Gospel Choir and Jazz Vocal Ensemble, Mr. McCutchen will conduct a community choir of students and townspeople and lead a jazz combo. Members of Oratory Now will deliver speeches on Chicago, today and 50 years ago, featuring King’s 1966 Soldier Field address. With movement by Christal Brown. Sponsored by the Department of Music and Oratory Now. Free.