EURYDICE at Middlebury

Conducting.

Conducting.

From Alex: the art of conducting.

Otis Redding, “Pain In My Heart”

From me - “Wait For Me” from Hadestown, featuring Ben Knox Miller & Justin Vernon

“Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree,” by the Andrews Sisters

If you aren’t already familiar with this album, you must check it out! Hadestown is “a folk opera based on the orpheus myth and set in a post-apocalyptic american depression era,” created by Midd alum Anaïs Mitchell. Libretto at the link above.

Lose Yourself In Wikipedia

ORPHEUS

EURYDICE

HADES

ERINYES (aka the Furies, aka the Stones)

IZANAMI-NO-MIKOTO (Japanese descent myth)

INANNA (Sumerian descent myth)

LOT’S WIFE (Biblical story about the perils of turning around)