Middlebury College Community Chorus...7:30 pm...The Middlebury College Community Chorus returns to the Brandon Town Hall on Saturday, May 12 at 7:30 pm, with a variety of musical styles and texts that portray moonlit nights and sun-filled days, from classical works to spirituals and arrangements of twentieth century popular songs for an enjoyable and entertaining program. The program includes music for the night written by contemporary American composers Gwyneth Walker and Daniel Elder. Walker, who lived and farmed for many years in Vermont, seeks to capture the lyricism of the E. E. Cummings poem "After all white horses are in bed." Elder writes his own lyrics for his gentle nocturnes entitled "Lullaby" and "Ballade to the Moon." The chorus will sing "Evening Prayer" from Humperdinck's musical setting of Hansel and Gretel, and, as night turns to day, the morning chorale "Awake, bright day" from Wagner's famous opera Die Meistersinger, and Franz Joseph Haydn's "Behold the sun" from The Seasons.

 From world music traditions, the choir will take up a new arrangement of "Yonder Come Day," a spiritual from the Georgia Sea Islands, as well as "Agoro Yede," a traditional song from Ghana that describes children's games played beneath a bright moon. Popular tunes on the program include songs such as Lennon & McCartney's "I'll Follow the Sun" (as arranged for the award-winning British a cappella group, The King's Singers), a choral arrangement of Dolly Parton's "Light of a Clear Blue Morning," and a choral jazz setting of Cole Porter's "Night and Day." Jeff Rehbach continues in his seventeenth year as director of the College Community Chorus and Timothy Guiles returns as the choir's virtuoso accompanist. Don't miss this Mother's Day Weekend Concert. This is a Free Will Donation Event. Sponsored by, Shirley Markland, Joan Curtis, Warren & Lorraine Kimble, Donald & Dolores Furnari.