Music and Crisis
Lamentations:
A new work for chorus, soloists, and ensemble
Composer Charles Shadle and musicologist Teresa Neff will be joined by Susana Ogata, violin; Guy Fishman, cello; and Ian Watson, fortepiano as they prepare for the upcoming premiere of "Three Chardin Fantasies". The process of creating new music on old instruments will be the focus of the event.
Reeling from the reality of life lived inside a machine, two computer scientists race to complete a super intelligent simulation of the world. A world so real, the real ceases to exist. Plug yourself in and go! But when one of them goes missing, AI superstar, Hunter Stopper, goes looking for him,...
Eran Egozy's real-time program note app, ConcertCue, will be used during the Friday, February 9th concert at the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
ConcertCue presents contextual program notes and images on concert-goers' mobile devices in real-time during the musical performance. ConcertCue will run...
In the 1920s, Shanghai became known world-wide for its nightlife as the city learned to dance to the rhythms of the American jazz age. The war years of the 1940s and the Communist Revolution of the 1950s put an end to the city’s dance halls and cabarets, but the reform era of the 1980s saw the...
"War on the Third Floor" by Pavel Kohut in a translation by Liz Diamond.
A staged reading directed by Anna Kohler.
Cellist Eugene Kim has enjoyed a distinguished teaching career. He is the 2019 recipient of the Jean Stackhouse Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Preparatory Division of New England Conservatory. His students have performed concerti with the Boston Symphony (under Andris Nelsons), the Boston...
"Mr. Burns" by Anne Washburn in collaboration with Sara Brown's 21M.733 Set Design class.
*In the event of an MIT Emergency Closing due to snow, this event will be rescheduled for April 4th, 2018.