First Year Seminar

Welcoming our newest scholars to the Academic Community! Participating First Year Seminars will celebrate the end of their first semester at Middlebury with a wide variety of short presentations, posters, and performances.

Free and open to the public. Details are at oratorynow.org/fysymposium

Axinn Center, Mon Dec 14, 2:15-6:30pm

Learn to play the 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. Free. No experience needed.

Learn to play the 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. Free. No experience needed.

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

Mondays in March, learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. At these drop-in classes, participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. Free, open to the public, and no experience needed. This class is geared towards adults.

UVM artist and teacher, jazz pianist Tom Cleary will offer a workshop on the piano in jazz and jazz piano. This workshop is offered in cooperation with the Public Humanities Labs initiative and is organized as part of this term’s First Year Seminar 1099, “The Cultural History of the Piano” (Prof. B. Matthias). Open to the public, but please reach out to Prof. Matthias beforehand (bmatthia@middlebury.edu).

Come purchase yummy snacks and cool merch— all benefiting the Vermont Language Justice Project, a local nonprofit organization.