7:00pm Parley SnotBot, EarBot & Drones for Whale Research
Parley Pre-Concert Talk Featuring Drs. Iain Kerr & Roger Payne, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Founder, Parley for the Oceans
Join Dr. Roger Payne, Dr. Iain Kerr, and Parley Founder Cyrill Gutsch as we dive into the world of whales...
MIT Chamber Chorus
William Cutter, Conductor
Program
Stravinsky - Ave Maria
Stravinsky - Pater Noster
Schnittke - Three sacred hymns
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
Tchaikovsky - Chorus of Peasant Girls - from “Eugene Onegin”
Also featuring additional Russian piano music and solo...
Program:
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Grace Yin, Violin
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
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Music of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Harbison, including the Boston premiere of Harbison's Nocturne for piano.
Post-Concert Book Signing
John Harbison will be signing copies of his recently published book, "What Do We Make of Bach?". We will be selling copies of the book at the...
All For You—John Harbison’s 80th Birthday Jazz Party Celebration
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director. Strength in Numbers, and special surprise guests and tributes.
6:30 p.m. What Do We Make of Bach?
Prof. Ellen Harris interviews John Harbison about his new book...
Rarely nowadays does one encounter a new, living master of the quartet medium, but Elena Ruehr is just that. Her six fluently written quartets are exquisitely performed on this, Avie's third release of Ruehr’s music, by the Cypress and in (No 2) Borromeo Quartets, and the sound is beautifully clear...
From large-scale works for the opera house and concert hall to intimate violin solos, John Harbison has created an abundant catalogue of music that engages in an extraordinary dialogue between past and present. His compositions are typically atypical, as he continually seeks out fresh angles...
