Music

The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Verdi’s timeless tragedy in an elegantly staged concert version, directed by Douglas Anderson. Maestro Emmanuel Plasson conducts the OCM orchestra, and Jeffrey Buettner leads the Middlebury College Choir. Tickets: $50/45/40 at townhalltheater.org or 802.382.9222

The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Verdi’s timeless tragedy in an elegantly staged concert version, directed by Douglas Anderson. Maestro Emmanuel Plasson conducts the OCM orchestra, and Jeffrey Buettner leads the Middlebury College Choir. Tickets: $50/45/40 at townhalltheater.org or 802.382.9222

Jeff Rehbach, conductor The 75-voice chorus and 40-piece orchestra comprising community musicians join together for a special concert, one of a number of statewide performances celebrating poetry and song. This program includes a variety of masterworks scored for orchestra and chorus, including a new orchestration of Reflections of the Sky, written by Christian A. Johnson Professor of Music Peter Hamlin ’73 for the College’s Bicentennial, which includes texts by Langston Hughes and Middlebury faculty members Julia Alvarez, Robert Pack, and Jay Parini.

College Choir, Emory Fanning and an orchestra and soloists of music faculty, affiliate artists, alumni and guests perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach celebrating the Leipzig tenure of the famous Kappellmeister. Interest sessions feature demonstration of the performance practice, style and history behind Bach’s music, and discussion of concepts such as how we hear and perform this music today. The concert includes Cantata 191 (later incorporated into the Mass in B Minor), organ, solo instrumental and orchestral music, and music performed by Bach on this day in 1724 in Leipzig.