Dvořák
THE SPECTRE’S BRIDE
Svatební košile
Jodie FERNANDES, soprano
William HITE, tenor
David TINERVIA, baritone
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lover’s Ghost
William Cutter, conductor
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...
MTA Playwrights Lab Festival
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 EVENTS:
Day 1: Thursday 4/5
Opening Reception @ 7pm
Program A @ 8pm
The Courting at Roya by Alaisha Alexander ‘18
Directed by LA Williams
With Cody Sloan, Jordan Clark, Marianna Bassham, Maurice Emmanuel Parent, and Ayomide Fatunde ('18).
Fireproof by Fatima Husain (Grad)
Directed by Marti Lyons
With Adrianne Krstansky, Nael Nacer, Peter Duerst ('18), and Dan Pecci.
Day 2: Friday 4/6
“Text as Blueprint” Workshop @ 12noon
with Director Marti Lyons
To signup for this workshop, go to https://doodle.com/poll/euavhqdps9crh2we
Program B @ 8pm
Sand by Kollin Wasserlein ‘19
Directed by Adam Greenfield
With Marge Buckley, Sarah Bedard, and Robert Thorpe ('18).
Tactless by Rachel Yang ‘18
Directed by LA Williams
With Jordan Clark, Marianna Bassham, Matthew J Harris, and Tal Scully ('18).
Day 3: Saturday 4/7
Program C @ 2pm
Ants by Ayomide Fatunde ‘18
Directed by Adam Greenfield
With Brandon Green, Elle Borders, Kadahj Bennett, Kollin Wasserlein ('19), and Alaisha Alexander ('18).
90 Seconds by Crystal Chang ‘20
Directed by LA Williams
With Sy Lee, Johnny Hager, Jordan Clark, Tal Scully ('18), and Amanda Fike ('19).
Program D @ 8pm
Untitled by Amanda Fike ‘19
Directed by Adam Greenfield
With Brooks Reeves, Cody Sloan, Jackie Davis, and Rachel Yang ('18).
Ideal by Alana Lidawer ‘18
Directed by Marti Lyons
With Dan Pecci, Michael Hisamoto, Sarah Bedard, and Johnny Hager.
The MTA Playwrights Lab is Funded by the Council for the Arts at MIT, and Music and Theater Arts at MIT.
Dvořák
THE SPECTRE’S BRIDE
Svatební košile
Jodie FERNANDES, soprano
William HITE, tenor
David TINERVIA, baritone
Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Lover’s Ghost
William Cutter, conductor
MIT Concert Choir
May 11th, 2018
The final concert of the 2017-18 season of MIT Sounding, this unique event features renowned clarinetists Don Byron, Evan Ziporyn, Billy Novick, Eran Egozy and a surprise guest artist along with the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and MIT Wind Ensemble led by Music Director Frederick...
The Great Clarinet Summit
May 11th, 2018
The final concert of the 2017-18 season of MIT Sounding, this unique event features renowned clarinetists Don Byron, Evan Ziporyn, Billy Novick, Eran Egozy and a surprise guest artist along with the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble and MIT Wind Ensemble led by Music Director Frederick Harris, Jr. The exciting and eclectic program will include Byron’s Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble, music for jazz and chamber ensembles featuring the clarinet, a special world premiere featuring all guest soloists and a community play-along piece for attending clarinetists of all ages!*
*If you are a clarinetist and interested in the community play-along piece, please email clarinet_summit@mit.edu.
ABOUT MIT SOUNDING
MIT Sounding is an annual performance series sponsored by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). Curated by CAST Faculty Director Evan Ziporyn, Sounding presents personal and compelling visions of music that defies genre and blurs the lines between the traditional and the contemporary,.
MIT Sounding receives generous support from the Council for the Arts at MIT; Terry and Rick Stone; Melissa Nobles, Kenan Sahin Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; and the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST).
ABOUT CAST
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST) creates new opportunities for art, science, and technology to thrive as interrelated, mutually informing modes of exploration, knowledge, and discovery. CAST's multidisciplinary platform presents performing and visual arts programs, supports research projects for artists to collaborate with science and engineering labs, and sponsors symposia, classes, workshops, design studios, lectures, and publications. The Center is funded in part by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Evan Ziporyn is Faculty Director, and Leila Kinney is Executive Director.
May 5th, 2018
Rambax, MIT Senegalese Drumming Ensemble
May 5th, 2018