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Dinner and Conversation with Friends

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Performing Arts Series
The pre-performance dinner is back by popular demand! Before settling into the Robison Hall (Concert Hall) for an evening of chamber music, join fellow concertgoers for a delicious, seasonal meal. Meet friends or make new ones at this catered buffet dinner, seated family style. Tickets: $25

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Open to the Public

Pre-concert lecture for PASS members

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Performing Arts Series
Members of the Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) are invited to a talk by Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin about the works to be performed by the Doric String Quartet. Enjoy a backstage peek into the pre-concert experience. A members-only event; membership information: 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass

Mahaney Arts Center 221

Open to the Public

Pre-concert Lecture for PASS Members

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Performing Arts Series
Members of the Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) are invited to a talk by Professor of Music Greg Vitercik about the music to be performed by the Heath Quartet. Enjoy a backstage peek into the pre-concert experience. A members-only event; membership information: 802.443.PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass

Mahaney Arts Center 221

Open to the Public

PASS Scholars Reception

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Performing Arts Series
Join us for an end-of-the-year celebration of the arts! All Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Scholars are invited to enjoy dinner and student entertainment as we share the highlights of our successful season. We’ll also share a sneak peak of our artists for the 2017-2018 Season!

Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Reception

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Performing Arts Series
A festive occasion for members to gather and celebrate PASS, preview select performances from the 2017–18 season, and vote on which event to support. This year’s reception features a bounty of seasonal appetizers and beverages, plus a student performance. Membership information: 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Open to the Public

Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Reception

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series
A festive evening for members to gather and celebrate the fourth year of PASS, preview select performances from the 2016–17 season, and vote on which event to support. A members-only event. Membership information: 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass

Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

Open to the Public

Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) Preview Party

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Performing Arts Series
PASS members are invited to an audiovisual preview of the 2016–2017 season, complete with a seasonal reception and the chance to be first in line to purchase tickets for the upcoming season. Membership information: 802-443-PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/givepass

Mahaney Arts Center Upper Lobby

Open to the Public

Brentano String Quartet

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Performing Arts Series and Music
Extolled by the New York Times for its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism,” the Brentano String Quartet last performed here in 2002, when the musicians celebrated their 10th anniversary by commissioning 10 composers—with Middlebury as a commissioning partner—to pen companion pieces for Bach’s Art of Fugue. It seems only fitting the quartet returns for the opening concert of the 2017 Bach Festival, to play Bach’s Art of the Fugue itself. Pre-concert lecture by Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin, 7:00 PM in Room 221.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

Open to the Public

Rodney King

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Performing Arts Series
Performed by Roger Guenveur Smith History, poetry, and tragedy collide when stage and film actor Roger Guenveur Smith (American Gangster, Malcolm X) tackles the thorny odyssey of Rodney King, caught in the glare of the national spotlight as the victim of police brutality that ignited the 1992 L.A. riots. In this riveting performance, Smith offers a meditation on a flawed, good-hearted man and reveals America’s endlessly complicated relationship with its racial past and present. “Roger Guenveur Smith gets it all and gets it brilliantly”— New York Times.

Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

Open to the Public