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Following the success of his 2016 MIT large-scale concert and subsequent New England Emmy-winning documentary about that event, two-time Grammy winner Jacob Collier returns to MIT for a new concert experience including music yet to be heard along with selections from his...
The internationally celebrated American organist Paul Jacobs, who has performed in all fifty states, expands the repertoire for organ and orchestra still further during the 2018-2019 season.
In October 2018, Mr. Jacobs is slated to unveil Pulitzer-Prize winning composer John Harbison's What Do We...
Wayne Marshall is an assistant professor of music history at Berklee College of Music and has taught at Harvard, Brown, Brandeis, and the University of Chicago, among others. An ethnomusicologist by training, his research examines the interplay between sound reproduction technologies, media regimes...
In threatening possibilities…
A presentation on the marriage of artistic inspiration and technology in the composition of several works, including two text settings: As I ride the late night freeways, a collaboration with poet Cathy Park Hong that takes a ride on the mean streets...
"Barack Obama’s two Presidential campaigns were defined, in part by the black voters they brought to the polls. In both 2008 and 2012, African-American women voted at a higher rate than any other demographic group in the country. But the latest analyses show that in 2016, African-Americans voted...
The Immortals, a work in progress, draws from the strange and troubling case of Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman whose “immortal” cancer cells (HeLa cells) continue to be used in biological research over 65 years after her death. Urban will collaborate with director Logan Vaughn and...
Professor Peter Child composed and performed a new work 'When the Sky Clears' for the opening of the exhibition Når Himmelen Klarner at CCA Andratx, the premiere contemporary arts center in Mallorca, Spain. The piece, composed during a month-long residency at CCA Andratx, combined live...
A recent article in the Austin Chronicle “Trumpet Colossus Kenny Dorham Towers Alongside the Jazz Gods” brings to light the last-ever performance by Dorham at a Boston benefit arranged by Senior Lecturer Mark Harvey and trumpet great Claudio Roditi. Scroll down to the end section “Resurrection in...
A piece that Lecturer Benjamin Park wrote for the 2017 Flatirons Chamber Music Festival was featured in the most recent episode of Colorado Public Radio's "Centennial Sounds" podcast. They introduce the piece with clips from an interview with Park. The podcast concludes with a complete performance...
Assistant Professor Charlotte Brathwaite created a new site-specific performance piece “within the sand and the sea: a meditation of lost and forgotten places and people" and screened the short film “Only When It’s Dark Enough You Can See The Stars”.
"Stage director Charlotte Brathwaite (Canada...
