Music

Collegium rehearsal

Collegium rehearsal

Collegium rehearsal

Ear Training: These informal gatherings are for musicians of any kind who want to work on ear training, including sight reading, rhythms, dictation, canons, and chorales. The focus will be slightly geared toward choral singing, though all are welcome and it would be beneficial for non-choral singers as well.

Ear Training: These informal gatherings are for musicians of any kind who want to work on ear training, including sight reading, rhythms, dictation, canons, and chorales. The focus will be slightly geared toward choral singing, though all are welcome and it would be beneficial for non-choral singers as well.

Ear Training: These informal gatherings are for musicians of any kind who want to work on ear training, including sight reading, rhythms, dictation, canons, and chorales. The focus will be slightly geared toward choral singing, though all are welcome and it would be beneficial for non-choral singers as well.

Frank Gunderson, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University, discusses how Radio Tanzania invested in song composition and censorship from 1973–1993. Two different songs entitled “Nelson Mandela,” now considered examples of zilipendwa (golden oldies), express a revolutionary sentiment that addresses workers and party leaders alike. 

A Music Department event. Free

An evening of sparkling, sophisticated mainstream jazz will be enhanced by a chance to look behind the curtain and see how jazz is created.  Long a favorite of Vermont audiences, the Jazz Group features Forman on piano, with some of New England’s finest musicians:  Paul Asbell, guitar; Michael Zsoldos, sax; Jim Daggs, bass and Geza Carr, drums.  Forman is the Music Department’s Director of Jazz Activities, and teaches jazz piano and jazz voice. Free

Affiliate artist Diana Fanning performs a beautiful program of piano music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Villa-Lobos. “Diana Fanning entranced her audience, expressing diverse atmospheres and nuances through the beauty of her colorful playing”— Le Progrès, France. Free

Students of affiliate artists Carol Christensen, Susanne Peck, and Beth Thompson cap off a semester of vocal study with an evening of songs and arias. Accompanied by affiliate artist Cynthia Huard, piano. Free