Arts Beat: Quartet fetes Beethoven at 250

The acclaimed Heath Quartet returns to Middlebury College on Saturday, Oct. 5, and Friday, Oct. 11, to help celebrate Beethoven’s 250th birth year. The ensemble will present Beethoven’s entire string quartet cycle over six concerts this season, bookending three weeklong residencies with the campus and community. The Oct. 5 concert that will launch the cycle will take place at 7:30 p.m., in Robison Hall at the college’s Mahaney Arts Center. The program will include Quartet No. 1 in F Major, op. 18.1; the “Se … (read more)

RIPTON — ON SATURDAY, OCT. 5, at 7:30 p.m., the Swedish band Kolonien will perform at the Ripton Community House. Doors open at 7 p.m.  The four members of Kolonien grew up in the traditional Swedish music scene. As Kolonien they reinvent their roots, bot … (read more)