News Category: Arts

Winter Concert Rings in Holiday Season

The Holiday Concert is the School’s annual celebration of the winter holidays in music.  Over the years, these concerts have presented a wide array of musical styles, from Renaissance motets to Duke Ellington.  The 2015 concert featured Joseph Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo “Kleine Orgelsolomesse”, otherwise known as “The Little Organ Solo Mass.”  Missa brevia is Latin for “short mass.”…

The Matchmaker Charms Audiences

Set in the 1950’s, the hilarious farce The Matchmaker follows the romantic machinations of Dolly Levi, a matchmaker for the ages.  The comedy, complete with explosions, cross dressing, mistaken identities, faints, screams and kisses, offered audiences a weekend of laughs.  A cleverly-designed rotating set provided the ideal backdrop for this talented cast of 16 actors.  Bravo! Cast Vandergelder:  Conrad Meier…

AP Studio Art Designs by the Book

Stacey McCarthy, Head of the Visual Arts, teaches her students that research is a part of preparing to create.  Although art students don’t often think of libraries when it comes to creating art, the AP Studio Art class learns a new way of using the Warburg Library as the kick-off to developing their concentration portfolios.  Based on the video series Design by the Book,…

Middlesex Presents The Matchmaker

Set in the 1950’s, this farce follows the romantic machinations of Dolly Levi, a matchmaker for the ages.  This comedy, complete with explosions, cross dressing, mistaken identities, faints, screams and kisses should offer a Middlesex audience, just one week away from Thanksgiving break, a well-deserved weekend of laughs.    While admission is free and tickets are not necessary, reserved patron…

Middlesex Actors Shoot Short Film

Over the fall long weekend, while most of their classmates were taking a well-earned break, students from the Theatre 80 acting class took three days to shoot Greg Ivan Smith’s newest short film, “What it Means to Fall.”  The film should be edited and ready to premiere on campus by the spring.  This is Greg’s third film with Middlesex students;…

Art By The Numbers

While art may not usually be associated with numbers, it’s worth counting the staggering quantity and quality of art on our campus! 100 Percent of AP Art History students using e-textbooks. 0 Number of times that Cornelius Hackl, the hard-working shop clerk in this fall’s comedy, The Matchmaker, has kissed a girl in his 33 years. It takes 4 acts…

Meet Our Faculty: Dr. Wetzel, Music

Dr. Wetzel earned his undergraduate degree in music education at Miami University of Ohio, his M.M. from the New England Conservatory in Boston, and his doctorate at Ohio State University, where he served as the graduate teaching assistant to the trumpet studio, worked with the Symphonic Choir, and accompanied numerous vocal recitals. He joined the faculty in 2007 and lives…

In the Gallery: Between You and Me

Middlesex School Cornelius Ayer Wood Gallery September – November 2015 Between You and Me Brad Nelson and Lucy Beecher Nelson   In this exhibition, husband and wife painters question the nature of relationships. For Beecher Nelson, the theme is immediately apparent; her diptychs use 15th century Italian marriage portraits as a departure point for contemporary couples to explore the nature of…

MX Actors Perform in Concord Youth Theatre Show

Five Middlesex actors are not letting the grass grow under their feet this summer.  Fresh off the Middlesex spring musical, Ragtime, these five thespians joined the Concord Youth Theatre‘s Young Adult Company.  Lucy Hirsch ’18, Chad Arle ’17, Grace Crozier ’17, Elizabeth Telford ’16, and Miles Petrie ’15 recently performed in the critically-acclaimed musical classic, Music Man, in our own…