Ellen T. Harris to teach at The Juilliard School

Ellen T. Harris, Class of 1949 Professor of Music Emeritus will be teaching a graduate course on Handel at the Juilliard School. A musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice, her most recent book, George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, earned her the Nicolas Slonimsky Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. Ellen Harris is President of the American Musicological Society.

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating music

Leslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.

Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building

Until very recently, Mariano Salcedo, a fourth-year MIT electronic engineering and computer science student majoring in artificial intelligence and decision-making, was planning to apply for a master’s program in computer science at MIT.

Travels with Rambax

KAOLACK, Senegal – The MIT students have just finished dinner and are crumpling soda cans into trash bins when they get the summons: “Grab your drums, grab your drums, grab your drums …”