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Saturday | April 23, 2022 | 7:30 PM ET Mahaney Arts Center | Robison Hall Free For streaming access, visit http://go.middlebury.edu/RobisonHallOnline (live starting at 7:30 PM ET on 4/23/22)

Open to on- and off-campus audiences. Full vaccinations with boosters (or valid medical or religious exemptions) and masks are required. Read our visitor policy and health and safety info>>

Come early for a "Meet the Bandura" session with our guest artists!  They'll greet visitors and discuss their instruments' unique sound and history at 6:30 PM (Robison Hall).

Meet the Bandurists

The Performances

[Middlebury College Choir: Vesnyanka (Spring Song), arr. Volodimir Stetsenko](https://www.notion.so/Middlebury-College-Choir-Vesnyanka-Spring-Song-arr-Volodimir-Stetsenko-93db0ab7ab254e98a1afed64b57df7b9)

• Andriiana Ilkiv ’24, emcee

• Diana Herasim, Middlebury Union High School exchange student: An Address to the Public

• Moment of silence

• College Community Chorus (click for translations):

  **Izhe Kheruvimi (**Cherubic Hymn No. 7), Dmitri Bortniansky

  Oi, tam za lisochkom (There is white snow behind the woods), Ukrainian folk song, arr. Anatoly Avdievsky

• Teryn Kuzma and Stephan Zaets, Bandura:

  • Vie Pamyat Pro Zahiblikh Nah Maidani (In Memory of the Victims of Maidan), words by Oksana Maksymyshyn, music by Andriy Dmitrovich

• Masha Makutonina ’21: “Diaries Monologue” from Asia Bazdyrieva’s digital journal

• Misha Poklad ’22: “50 Best Ukrainian films in 2 Minutes”

• David Gusakov, Fiddle

• Kayla Schwartz ’23.5: poem by Lyuba Yakimchuk

• Masha Makutonina ’21: “Movchaty,” a short movement piece

• Jessica Allen, soprano and Jeffrey Buettner, bass and piano:

  Kai yo bergi (Where are the mountains?), Ukrainian Romani song, arr. Jeffrey Buettner

  Надія, Віра і Любов/Nadiya, Vira i Lyubov (Hope, Faith and Love), Ludmilla Vishnevetskaya

• Gregory Marcinik ’25.5, Piano: Chopin’s “Revolutionary” Étude in C minor for Piano, Op. 10 No. 12 (1830)