Marcus Thompson with DaPonte Qtet

Violist Marcus Thompson is performing with the DaPonte String Quartet and cellist Joshua Gordon, a series of concerts titled "A Midsummer Night's Sextets" at the Burnt Cove Church in Stonington, Maine, on Tuesday, July 14 at 7pm; on Wednesday, July 15 at 7:30pm at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay; and on Thursday, July 16 at 7:30pm at the Union Church in South Bristol. The program features the Brahms Sextet in B flat and Erich Korngold's Sextet.

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.

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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 …”