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Ronu Majumdar - Hindustani Flute
TBD on Tabla
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Infinite Winds: Innovative Music from MIT and Beyond
MIT Wind Ensemble & MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, music director, Kenneth Amis, assistant conductor
This special MIT annual event celebrates innovative music originating from MIT faculty and beyond...
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“If Gregg Araki were to direct a lost John Hughes script about sullen teenagers and hired Matmos to create a new wave-inspired score, the result would probably sound a lot like the darkly beautiful music of Occurrence.” – Michael Tedder
In collaboration with the students...
Lisa Dwan in "Not I," by Samuel Beckett at the Royal Court, 2014. Credit: Finn Beales.
MIT Performing is a prototyping and presenting series curated by Professor Jay Scheib, with the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology, promotes a research-based artistic practice in the development of a...
Abstract
In 1944 with Nazi Germany just months from defeat, a curious and now little-known book was published in Regensburg: a collection of essays and biographies that strove to define the contemporary state of opera. Titled Die deutsche Oper der Gegenwart (German Opera of the Present Day), this...
A beginner’s guide to enjoying classical music. No snobs allowed.
"There’s a lot more to classical music than orchestra music. Don’t think you’re stuck with orchestras, though, if that’s not your thing. The term “classical music” is an inaccurate catchall for everything from solo piano works to...
The Strad Issue: August 2018
Description: Proof that, as a genre, the string quartet still has legs
Musicians: Cypress Quartet, Borromeo Quartet, Stephen Salters (baritone)
Works: RUEHR String Quartets nos.1–6
Catalogue Number: AVIE AV2379
The Cypress Quartet made its recorded farewell two...
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CHILD: Jubal; Adirondack Voices; Shanti Boston Modern Orchestra Project/ Gil Rose
BMOP 1057—65 minutes
This album was my introduction to the music of Peter Child. Like Lindberg’s works, Child’s music is multi-faceted and adaptable to whatever idea is at hand. The wild and...
Ian Hattwick is an artist, researcher, and technology developer whose work focuses on the creation and use of digital systems for professional artistic performances. With a background in music composition and performance, he is particularly interested in use of multimodal hardware systems to...
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Lynn Torgove, Stage Director
William Cutter, Conductor
CANDIDE - a staged and costumed truncated version of Leonard Bernstein’s delightful comic operetta “Candide” based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. Playwright Lillian Hellman approached Bernstein...
