Four members of the MTA faculty received funding from the MIT SHASS Research Fund for upcoming projects. Congratulations to Charlotte Brathwaite, Sara Brown, Fred Harris, and Mark Harvey!
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Charlotte Brathwaite | Assistant Professor, Music and Theater Arts
SHASS research...
Professors Patricia Tang and Ellen Harris both have newly-published essays in "Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music," ed. Ingrid T. Monson, Carol J. Oja, and Richard K. Wolf," a collection of essays in honor of Kay Kaufman Shelemay (official publication date January 2018): Harris, "...
On December 21st, Interfaith Voice re-aired Ellen Harris' 2011 interview about Handel's Messiah on its 86 stations. Listen here.
Ken Urban's band Occurrence just released a new song for the holidays, "The Time Of Year." It features Ken on electronics and synths, Johnny Hager on vocals and Cat Hollyer on voice memos.
You can purchase the the song here.
Town and Country and Beyond
Dominique Eade, vocals, Ran Blake, piano
Saturday, February 3, 2018
8PM, Killian Hall, MIT
$15 general admission at the door (no advanced ticket sales)
$10 student admission
Free to any MIT ID holders
On the heels of their New York appearance, named one of the...
Assistant Professor Charlotte Brathwaite's latest project is Shaste Geaux Pop, a Glamazon Hip-Hop Icon.
Brathwaite's work will be featured as part of the "Under the Radar" festival at New York's Public Theatre on Wednesday, January 10th at 10pm and Friday, January 12th at 11pm.
The event has been...
The MTA Playwrights Lab is a first-of-its-kind collaboration between MIT students and professional theatre artists. The Lab is a weekend-long festival of staged readings featuring the work of the eight writers in the Playwrights’ Workshop (21M.785) taught by Senior Lecturer Ken Urban.
PROGRAM OF...
MIT Affiliated Artist Yukiko Sekino performs a program featuring Scarlatti, Sonatas K. 454 & K. 455; Mozart, Sonata in B-flat major, K. 189f/281; Copland, Piano Variations; Scriabin, 4 Morceaux, Op. 51; and Rachmaninoff, Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 36 (Original 1913 Version).
About the...
Musical Improvisation
Films by animator/artist Kate Matson
with live soundtrack by the FiLmprov Ensemble
Rob Bethel, cello
Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff, Dan Zupan, woodwinds
Mark Harvey, music director, trumpet John Funkhouser, piano, bass Harry Wellott, drums
This event is presented in conjunction...
Two benefit concerts celebrating the resiliency of the people of Puerto Rico
March 2 (MIT) and March 3 (Hunter College, NYC)
Miguel Zenón, saxophonist-composer with The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and clarinetist-composer Evan Ziporyn
To view MIT Video Productions video on the upcoming event, click...