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Brentano String Quartet

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Performing Arts Series and Music
Extolled by the New York Times for its “luxuriously warm sound [and] yearning lyricism,” the Brentano String Quartet last performed here in 2002, when the musicians celebrated their 10th anniversary by commissioning 10 composers—with Middlebury as a commissioning partner—to pen companion pieces for Bach’s Art of Fugue. It seems only fitting the quartet returns for the opening concert of the 2017 Bach Festival, to play Bach’s Art of the Fugue itself. Pre-concert lecture by Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin, 7:00 PM in Room 221.

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

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Middlebury College Orchestra

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Music
The Middlebury College Department of Music presents the orchestra in a Winter Term concert. Director Andrew Massey conducts student musicians performing Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4 in B flat. Free
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Middlebury College Orchestra

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Music
The Middlebury College Orchestra plays its spring concert. Student soloist Gioia Pappalardo ‘16 will be the featured artist in Charles Tomlinson Griffes’ impressionistic Poem for Flute and Orchestra. Under the direction of Associate Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin, the program will also include Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony and the riotous Bacchanal from Camille Saint-Saens’ opera Samson et Delilah. Running time: 1 hour, no intermission. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

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Middlebury College Orchestra

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Music
The Middlebury College Orchestra presents its fall concert featuring Beethoven’s Overture to Goethe’s Tragedy Egmont, Saint-Saens’ Morceau de Concert (with horn soloist Josie Trichka), Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave, and Rossini’s William Tell Overture. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free

Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

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NECSEM Conference: Student Concerns Meeting

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Music
Middlebury College hosts this year’s NECSEM conference. Ever wondered about music’s role in social life? Join us! The conference schedule is posted at www.necsem.org. Sponsored by the Department of Music, the Mahaney Center for the Arts, the Academic Enrichment Fund, and the Center for Teaching, Learning & Research. Free

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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NECSEM Conference: Session 2B-Movements and Movements

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Music
2:30-3:00 The Rise and Fall of Dansuomu: A Discussion of Nkrumah’s Ban on Cultural Repertoire and the Musical Resistance of the Ashanti People Harriet Barnes-Duke, Tufts University 3:00-3:30 Branching Streams Flow: Bharatanatyam Drumming Douglass Fugan Dineen, Boston College 3:30-4:00 “We Gon’ Be Alright”: Mental Health and the Blues in Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly Sayeed Joseph, Skidmore College 4:00-4:30 “I am that I am… Yankunkun”: Maroon Music and Dance in Jamaica Harjinder Singh, Tufts University
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NECSEM Conference: Session 2A-Music in Theoretical Context

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2:30-3:00 Rhythmic Treatment of the Tasnif in the Qajar and Pahlavi Period: Changing Sensibilities and Conventions in 20th Century Classical Persian Music Payam Yousefi, Harvard University 3:00-3:30 Keith Jarrett’s 1975 Koln Concert: African, European, and South Asian Musical Syncretism in American Jazz Jack Herscowitz ‘20, Middlebury College 3:30-4:00 “We’ve Got Harmony, Too!”: Reclaiming Music Theory, Performing Chinese-ness Rujing Huang, Harvard University 4:00-4:30 Kwekwe Nisuo: Towards an Ethnographically Informed Theory of

Mahaney Arts Center 221

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NECSEM Conference: Session 1B-Musical Identities in Production

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Music
10:00-10:30 “Dead Media” and the Concept of Canon in the Archive of Georgian Folk Song Brian Fairley, Wesleyan University 10:30-11:00 Hidden Transcripts, Production Strategies, and the Blues in the Music of the Eyo’nle Brass Band of Benin Sarah Politz, Harvard University 11:00-11:30 Singing Like a State: Music, Modernity, and the Projection of an Aurally Intelligible Cambodia in the Films of King-Father Norodom Sihanouk,1966-1969 Emily Howe, Boston University 11:30-12:00 Professionalism of Performing Musicians in Burlington, VT: A Discussion of Art,

Mahaney Arts Center 125

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