Following the quiet Evening Prayer from Englebert Humperdinck’s 1893 musical setting of Hansel and Gretel, the choir greets a new dawn with Behold the sun!, a chorus excerpted from one of F ranz Joseph Haydn’s last major works, completed in 1801. Donations at the door in Brandon support ongoing renovations and programming at the historic Town Hall, while the Middlebury concert is free admission.Īs the choir singers process and gather on stage, they open the concert with Awake! Bright day from Richard Wagner’s famous opera Die Meistersinger. Performances take place on Saturday evening, May 12, 7:30 pm, at the Brandon Town Hall, and on Sunday afternoon, 13, 3:00 pm at the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robinson Concert Hall at Middlebury College. The group welcomes all singers who delight in this 150-year-old community tradition, hosted by Middlebury College.

Community members of the College Community chorus - including College alumni, as well as current and retired staff and faculty - travel for weekly rehearsals from throughout the region, including Cornwall, Bristol, Weybridge, Middlebury, New Haven, Leicester, Orwell, Brandon, Moriah NY, North Ferrisburgh, Monkton, Salisbury, and Vergennes. Rehbach notes that delightful classical, traditional, and popular music fills the hour-long program.Ĭollege students hail from China, Zimbabwe, Texas, California, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Massachusetts, Delaware, Maine, Vermont, New York, Kentucky, and Maryland.

– Fifteen Middlebury students join the College Community Chorus and will take to the stage in Brandon and Middlebury on Mother's Day Weekend for its annual spring concerts, this year with the theme ' Moonlit Nights & Sun-filled Days.' Conductor Jeff Rehbach leads the 80-voice chorus as virtuoso pianist Timothy Guiles accompanies the ensemble. The Middlebury College Community Chorus rehearses for their spring 2018 concerts.

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