Teresa Neff, Lecturer at MIT will showcase her research at the Handel and Haydn Society Bicentennial installation at the Boston Public Library in Copley Sq. with an assist from fellow Lecturer in Music Justin Casinghino.  The H+H exhibit includes an interactive iPad listening station app created by Casinghino which recreates the first H+H performance of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus. Listeners can compare this 1815 performance with other performances  as well as isolate individual voice parts. The H+H Bicentennial exhibit, celebrating H+H’s 200 years as a Boston institution, is open from March 24 through September 5, 2015. It is free and open to the public.

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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 …”