Music

Susanne Peck, guest conductor The choir’s repertoire spans major styles and time periods of the choral canon, folk music, world music, American music, and new compositions. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

The Middlebury College Choir and instrumentalists present the first parts of Mozart’s Requiem in D, in the 225th anniversary year of the composer’s death. The performance includes the most substantial part of the piece mostly completed by Mozart himself. Other choral repertoire complements the Requiem. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

The winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Best Book and Best Score, City of Angels is the latest in the popular tradition of winterterm productions coproduced by the Department of Music and Town Hall Theater. This musical comedy is written in the contempoary jazz idiom, but also teems with sidesplitting humor. Douglas Anderson directs, with affiliate artist Carol Christensen as music director. Presented by special arrangement with Tims-Witmark Inc. Tickets $16/10/6; on sale January 9.

The winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Best Book and Best Score, City of Angels is the latest in the popular tradition of winterterm productions coproduced by the Department of Music and Town Hall Theater. This musical comedy is written in the contempoary jazz idiom, but also teems with sidesplitting humor. Douglas Anderson directs, with affiliate artist Carol Christensen as music director. Presented by special arrangement with Tims-Witmark Inc. Tickets $16/10/6; on sale January 9.

The winner of the 1990 Tony Award for Best Musical, as well as Best Book and Best Score, City of Angels is the latest in the popular tradition of winterterm productions coproduced by the Department of Music and Town Hall Theater. This musical comedy is written in the contempoary jazz idiom, but also teems with sidesplitting humor. Douglas Anderson directs, with affiliate artist Carol Christensen as music director. Presented by special arrangement with Tims-Witmark Inc. Tickets $16/10/6; on sale January 9.

Award-winning composer Christina Whitten Thomas ’01.5 will discuss her recent music, including a new choral suite, commissioned by the Vermont Choral Union, incorporating texts by Vermont-based writer Abigail Carroll, 1950s Waterbury poet Jean Killary, and Middlebury faculty member Jay Parini.

Sponsored by the Department of Music

The College Choir performs a brief concert of new compositions of written for the choir. Music by students, alumni, and faculty includes recent works by Peter Hamlin ’73, Annie Beliveau ’18 and Tevan Goldberg ’18. The program also includes a commissioned work by Mohammed Fairouz (b. 1985), whose music is increasingly popular with major symphony orchestras and choirs. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

The choir presents global choral music including 21st-century compositions from Western and non-Western musical traditions. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free