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Middlebury College Community Chorus

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Music
Jeff Rehbach, conductor; Tim Guiles, accompanist

An annual concert celebrating the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff, faculty, and singers from towns throughout the area with two performances. The program includes settings of psalms alongside uplifting and celebratory songs by classical and contemporary composers. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public

Middlebury College Community Chorus

Sponsored by:
Music
Jeff Rehbach, conductor; Tim Guiles, accompanist

An annual concert celebrating the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff, faculty, and singers from towns throughout the area with two performances. The program includes settings of psalms alongside uplifting and celebratory songs by classical and contemporary composers. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public

Brazilian Music from a Brazilian Musician: Samba, Bossa Nova and Beyond

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Music
Hamilton Pinheiro, an acclaimed bassist and music producer from Brasilia, will offer a lecture/demonstration on a variety of Brazilian genres in jazz. Focusing on the samba and bossa nova, the session will also include genres less common to American jazz musicians, including Choro, Baião, Partido Alto and Ijexá. Sponsored by the Jazz Program of the Music Department. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 221

Open to the Public

Middlebury Bach Festival: St. John Passion

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Music
Guest conductor John Butt leads two performances of J.S. Bach’s riveting musical drama. Featuring students, alumni, affiliate artists, and guest professional musicians. A Music Department event. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/ free to Middlebury College students with ID.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Middlebury Bach Festival: St. John Passion

Sponsored by:
Music
Guest conductor John Butt leads two performances of J.S. Bach’s riveting musical drama. Featuring students, alumni, affiliate artists, and guest professional musicians. A Music Department event. Tickets: $15/$12/free to Middlebury College students with ID.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Presenting Medieval and New Melodies

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Music
At the intersection of music theory, composition, and performance, Annie Beliveau ’18 will give a lecture-recital of her senior work based on research into Sarum plainchant from her year abroad in Oxford. With student collaborators, Annie will present her research results and a suite of original compositions inspired by medieval musical processes and modern poetry about the natural world.

All are welcome at this event which seeks to make this 500-year-old music accessible! 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. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
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. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Free
Open to the Public

50th Anniversary Concert by Emory Fanning, organ

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Professor Emeritus of Music Emory Fanning plays a concert on the magnificent Gress-Miles organ in Mead Chapel to celebrate his 50 years at Middlebury College. A Music Department event.

Middlebury Chapel

Free
Open to the Public