Music

Winter Term DJ Class “final exam” wrap party featuring students from Serena Kim’s DJ Class!

The Middlebury College Choir sings a program that celebrates the vibrant energy of spring and the hopefulness of community. Hear music from Italy, England, South Africa, Canada, India, Ukraine, and the USA, including a Renaissance-era double choir motet by Raffaella Aleotta, Psalm settings by Herbert Howells, African American composer William Dawson’s stunning setting of “Steal Away,” and the premier of “Noche” by William Mortell ‘26. Lively and inventive folk and traditional music completes the program. Free and open to the public.

The band’s end-of-semester concert spans East and West Africa, the Caribbean, and the broader Afro-diaspora, drawing on highlife, Afrobeat, reggae, funk, and Swahili praise traditions. From Ebo Taylor and Miriam Makeba to Bob Marley and Stevie Wonder, the band brings together artists and styles that reflect the creative vitality of popular music across the African world.

Timothy Cummings, Middlebury College Affiliate Artist in pipes and whistles is joined by Jeremiah McLane, accordions and McKinley James, cellist for a performance of acoustic music that explores musical connections across the region of Caledonian orogeny, spanning Appalachia, New England, Québec and the Canadian Maritimes, Greenland, Ireland, Scotland, England, and even Denmark and Norway. Middlebury College students and Jeffrey Buettner also perform.

Middlebury’s own Sound Investment Jazz Ensemble performs a broad range of jazz and jazz-adjacent music, from the 1930s to the present day.

Run time 75 minutes, no intermission. This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

Come hear the Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble’s Winter Concert, conducted by Catherine Ott. The program features audience favorites like “Amazing Grace” and George Gershwin’s “American in Paris”, alongside music reflecting the diverse perspectives and cultures of the Japanese, Arabic, Latin and American musicians who composed them.

Music for Theater
The Middlebury College Orchestra presents a celebration of music from opera and ballet, featuring Wagner’s monumental Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, glittering arias with soprano soloist Olga Lisovska (’99), and Tchaikovky’s rapturous music to his ballet Sleeping Beauty. Evan Bennett, conductor.

This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall