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Champlain Philharmonic with Gareth Cordery

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Music
Under the baton of guest conductor, Matthew LaRocca ‘02, the Champlain Philharmonic presents an evening of music of the great Russian masters. Featuring Middlebury College student Gareth Cordery ‘20, performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The program also includes works by Prokofiev and Borodin. Tickets: $15/10/5

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Breathe

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Dance and Music
Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Forestieri and collaborators Loren Dempster and Adrian Jevicki transform Middlebury’s natatorium into a multidisciplinary performance venue. The project combines light, puppetry, projections, swimmers, divers, dancers, actors, musicians, and singers. A live feed of underwater dancing displays to the board above the pool, while projections light the surface and floor. A floating choir mixes with a soundscape composed directly from the space itself, using contact microphones both out of and in the pool.

Natatorium

Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6; on sale April 10
Open to the Public

Breathe

Sponsored by:
Dance and Music
Artist-in-Residence Gabriel Forestieri and collaborators Loren Dempster and Adrian Jevicki transform Middlebury’s natatorium into a multidisciplinary performance venue. The project combines light, puppetry, projections, swimmers, divers, dancers, actors, musicians, and singers. A live feed of underwater dancing displays to the board above the pool, while projections light the surface and floor. A floating choir mixes with a soundscape composed directly from the space itself, using contact microphones both out of and in the pool.

Natatorium

Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6; on sale April 10
Open to the Public

Middlebury Bach Festival: Esther

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Music
The Middlebury Bach Festival presents G. F. Handel’s oratorio, “Esther,” featuring Middlebury alumni soloists, student and guest singers and orchestra. The first English oratorio, the work is a charming and dramatic piece originally writtend for the English audience of the early 18th century. The libretto is based loosely on Jean Racine’s 1689 play, which is loosely based on the Book of Esther. It is the story of a young Jewish woman who becomes the wife of a king and risks her life to save the Jewish race from genocide.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Bach Festival Concert

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Music
The Middlebury Bach Choir and Festival Orchestra perform under the direction of Jeffrey Buettner. Tickets $12 Public/$10 Middlebury ID holders; Middlebury College students free with ID.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Bach Festival Opening Concert

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Music
This concert will feature vocal of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, including Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna, and music of other master madrigalists, performed by the Middlebury Collegium. Anthony Harvey and Richard Stone, lutes and theorbos.

Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Anne Jansen, flute

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Music
Affiliate artist Anne Janson and University of Vermont colleague Sylvia Parker present a program featuring the Claude Bolling Suite for flute and jazz trio, with UVM music faculty Jeff Salisbury, drums, and John Rivers, bass. The concert also includes works by Mozart, Bartók, and Faure. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble

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Music
Damascus Kafumbe, Director The music of this student ensemble demonstrates the study of many musical Africanisms: complex polyphony, musical conversation, structured improvisation, recurrent patterns, layered ostinati, timbral variety, and tonal variations. These stylistic elements serve as markers of cultural, social, political, and religious lifeways in Africa. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble

Sponsored by:
Music
Damascus Kafumbe, Director The music of this student ensemble demonstrates the study of many musical Africanisms: complex polyphony, musical conversation, structured improvisation, recurrent patterns, layered ostinati, timbral variety, and tonal variations. These stylistic elements serve as markers of cultural, social, political, and religious lifeways in Africa. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Sadie Brightman, Piano; Steven Klimowski, Clarinet

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Music
Klimowski and Brightman team up to play a concert of music for clarinet and piano. The music spans the clarinet/piano repertoire from Romantic to Modern, including Brahms, Debussy, and improvisations on some of the great popular melodies. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public