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Saturday, April 27, 2024

  • the ensemble on stage

    Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble: From Batman to Bach

    For their spring concert, the Ensemble presents works for the full 40-musician band, as well as pieces featuring individual sections. The program includes music inspired by both hobbits and Batman, with The Lord of The Rings and an arrangement from The Dark Night Rises alongside popular classical pieces and a rousing finale with P.D.Q. Bach’s Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion. Chris Foster, conductor. 

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Sunday, April 28, 2024

  • Members of the quartet seated, holding their instruments, in front of a large clock

    Heath Quartet

    The dynamic and charismatic Heath Quartet—our series’ first quartet-in-residence—is one of the most exciting British chamber ensembles of the moment, steadily building a reputation for their upbeat and integrated sound. We celebrate our 20th year of support from the Sunderman Family Concert Fund with this free concert, including works by Bach, Haydn, Henriette Bosmans, and Erick Korngold. 

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Monday, April 29, 2024

  • West African Dance and Drum Class

    A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
    Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.

    Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!

    No credit. Attend one or all classes!

    Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM

    Middlebury College

    Open to the Public

  • Drop-in Korean Drumming

    Drop-in to learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed!

    The Bunker (FIC 121)

    Open to the Public
  • The artist playing an instrument

    Storytelling in Chinese Music from the Ancient Past through Modern Times

    In this presentation, master pipa player Gao Hong will introduce the audience to the storytelling aspects of Chinese music spanning the ages through 2000-year-old traditional pipa music and 21-century new music formats. She will open her presentation with a performance of traditional pipa music, including a 100-year-old piece that was recently reconstructed and a wide array of storytelling pieces in different performance styles taught to her by the 6th-generation definitive Pudong school master Lin Shicheng.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Thursday, May 2, 2024

  • HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS - MAMBAR PIERRETTE

    HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS:

    MAMBAR PIERRETTE, a free-spirited seamstress navigates poverty and patriarchy in the Cameroonian city of Douala.

    Cameroon/Belgium - 2023 - 93 minutes - A Film by Rosine Mbakam.

    Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.

    Watch the trailer HERE
    Co-Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public
  • Close up of a person wearing red gloves and holding a fan

    Orlando

    Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.

    Wright Theatre

    $15/10/8/5
    Open to the Public

Friday, May 3, 2024

  • Close up of a person wearing red gloves and holding a fan

    Orlando

    Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.

    Wright Theatre

    $15/10/8/5
    Open to the Public

Saturday, May 4, 2024

  • Close up of a person wearing red gloves and holding a fan

    Orlando

    Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.

    Wright Theatre

    $15/10/8/5
    Open to the Public
  • The student members of Sound Investment

    The Sound Investment Jazz Tentet

    The Sound Investment Jazz Tentet performs works from a century of jazz history, with a nod to some of the genre’s top arrangers.

    Watch the livestream of the performance here

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public

Sunday, May 5, 2024

  • orchestra on stage

    Middlebury College Orchestra

    Join the Middlebury College Orchestra in our Spring 2023 concert! Taking place at 3pm in the Robinson Concert Hall, the program will feature Mozart’s Bassoon Concert in B-flat major featuring soloist Roeskva Torhalsdottir (‘25), the premiere of Gino Abrams’ (‘24) symphonic work The Bronze Horseman, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Open admission and mask-friendly.

    Watch the livestream of the performance here

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public

Monday, May 6, 2024

  • Students performing on stage

    Dance 260 Class Showing

    Technique and Composition, DANC0260, students show their choreography with music by the Middlebury Choir,Deborah Felmeth, and Ron Rost. Directed by Laurel Jenkins and lighting by Bert Crosby. 

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public

  • West African Dance and Drum Class

    A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
    Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.

    Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!

    No credit. Attend one or all classes!

    Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM

    Middlebury College

    Open to the Public

  • Drop-in Korean Drumming

    Drop-in to learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed!

    The Bunker (FIC 121)

    Open to the Public

Tuesday, May 7, 2024

  • Students performing on stage

    Improvisational Practices Class showing

    This informal showing demonstrates the research of Improvisational Practiced DANC0261 led by Professor Lida Winfield and musicians Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth.
    Lighting will be improvised by Bert Crosby.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • Members of the quartet standing on stage with their instruments

    MICA Quartet: Rondo through the Ages

    The Middlebury College Music Department proudly presents the debut performance of the MICA string quartet, with performers Marco Matroni ‘25, Isaac Xie ‘24, Amelia Grosskopf ‘24, and Chelsea Robinson ‘26. The hour-long concert will explore stylistic transformation across string quartet works spanning the 18th-20th centuries, featuring works by Scarlatti, Haydn, Schubert, Smetana, Debussy, and Bartok, as well as original solo viola interludes that stylistically bridge the works together in rondo form. Senior project of Amelia Grosskopf ’24.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, May 8, 2024