Music

Deepest Yearnings of the Heart

Walking with My Ancestors: Cape Coast Castle (2019) is a one-woman award-winning multimodal performance piece that generates fresh perspectives on the experiences of the nameless African women, men, and children who once languished in the dungeons of Cape Coast Castle and suffered the agony of the middle passage.

Craig Maravich, Director   Carol Christensen, Music Director

Preliminary auditions for the J-term musical, URINETOWN, by Hollmann and Kotis. Instrumentalists will be in MAC 215 and ASM/tech candidates will be in MAC 125.

Composer-pianist Matthew Quayle (Visiting Assistant Professor of Music) presents an eclectic recital of original music, joined by cellist Jameson Platte and clarinetist Kate Forman Quayle. This energetic and expressive program features premieres of several works: Sonata No. 6, Episodes for bass clarinet and piano, and Concerto for Cello and Orchestra (revised, in an arrangement for cello and piano). Other pieces include Sonata No. 5 and Quayle’s virtuosic take on the pas de deux from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker. 

Music Department voice students present a lively sampling of musical theater from opera to Broadway.  Performers are students of Carol Christensen and Susanne Peck. They will be accompanied on the piano by Matthew Quayle.

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

Music Department vocal students present an lively evening of songs and arias. 

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

About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.

This concert opens with the African Music and Dance Ensemble Performance class performing repertoire that showcases the stylistic and instrumental diversity of traditional East African musical cultures. In the second half of the concert, the Middlebury Afropop Band performs original compositions and arrangements of classic and contemporary popular songs from all over Africa. The band uses pop and rock instrumentation as well as styles that blend traditional African with Western and/or Afro-diasporic musical idioms.

The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

Performer: George Mattthew Jr. Carillonneur, Middlebury College and Norwich University.

For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.

The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

Performer: Charles Semowich, Carillonneur Emeritus, Riverside Church, NYC

For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.

The Carillon Concert Series features beautiful concerts from Middlebury Chapel’s bell tower. The melodic sounds of the carillon bells will ring out across the campus. Bring a lawn chair or a blanket! Free and open to the public.

Performer: Amy Heebner ‘93, City Carillonneur, Albany, NY

For more information about the performers and programs, please click here.