Music and Theater Arts Concert as part of the official MIT Cambridge Centennial Celebrations.
The concert features the MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, director; MIT Concert Choir and MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, director; Members of the MIT Chamber Music Society and Emerson Program...
Playwright Alan Brody is a professor of Theater at MIT. His plays have won numerous awards. Small Infinities explores the life and paradox of Sir Isaac Newton. Newton is the father of modern science, yet he was also an alchemist and believed he had unearthed textual revelations in the scriptures...
Accompanied by Eileen Huang, piano, Austen Yueh will perform Debussy, Première Rhapsody; Brahms, Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120, No. 2; and Copland, Clarinet Concerto.
Dr. Frederick Harris, Jr., Director of Wind and Jazz Ensembles, presents a Q & a session about Music at MIT followed by a performance featuring his Jazz and Wind ensembles. The program will feature Music by Bach, Glazunov, Ellington, Strayhorn, Chick Corea, and MIT student composers.
This concert by composer John Harbison, 2016 recipient of the Kepes Prize, will feature:
Bach, Sonata for Violin and Continuo, BWV 1023
Mozart, Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano, K. 526
Harbison, Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (First Boston Performance)
Performed by Rose Mary Harbison,...
Hearing Voices: Vocal Subjectivity in Recent Concert and Theatrical Works by Daniel Thomas Davis
About the Composer
Composer Daniel Thomas Davis’ wide range of musical activities has taken him from the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Royal Opera House to monasteries in the Horn of Africa to...
Accompanied by Eileen Huang, piano, Divya Pillai will perform Rossini, Canzonetta spagnuola, Nizza, La partenza, La danza; Brahms, Der Kranz, Spanisches Lied, Vergebliches Ständchen; Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade, Die Männer sind Méchant, Rastlose Liebe; Bernstein, I Hate Music; Chabrier, Les...
Under the direction of William Cutter, The MIT Chamber Chorus
presents
Shall We Dance?
With dancers from the Boston Conservatory of Music
BRAHMS, Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes
PIAZZOLA, Tangos
Libertango
Invierno Porteno
PURCELL, Come ye Sons of Art
J. STRAUSS Jr., Act II Finale, Die...
A concert of New Music for Jazz Orchestra featuring a performance of Harvey’s Commemoration Boston 2013, a suite in homage to the victims and survivors of the Boston Marathon tragedy. This concert also celebrates the international release of Aardvark’s latest CD recording, Passages [Leo Records...
The program will feature Mozart, Fantasy in C Minor, K396; Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Paganini, Op. 35 Books, 1 & 2; Takemitsu, Rain Tree Sketch 1 and 2; Hisao, Memories of Home, Suite No. 1.
