A Little Choctaw Music: Chamber Music of Charles Shadle

A Little Choctaw Music: Chamber Music of Charles Shadle

Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 at 8pm

Thomas Tull Concert Hall, MIT Linde Music Building

201 Amherst Street, Cambridge MA 02139

This event is in-person only and will not be live-streamed.

A Little Choctaw Music: Chamber Music of Charles Shadle gathers together several recent works by the MIT composer. The gifted young Choctaw guitarist, Alexander Lassa, will give the Boston premiere of a work he commissioned, Wheelock Variations. This monumental work for solo guitar is a series of variations on the Choctaw shaped-note hymn Vba Isht Taloa 139 (Choctaw Hymn 139), and celebrates the return of the historic Wheelock Church (the oldest house of worship in Oklahoma) to the Choctaw Nation. In addition to performances by pianist Shalun Li (A Tale of My Native Land No.4), and cellist Leo Eguchi (Iti Fabvssa), the concert will conclude with a performance of the lively and energetic A Little Choctaw Music, performed by the Jamaica Plain Saxophone Quartet.

Seating Policy

As seating in Thomas Tull Concert Hall is limited, we encourage you to reserve seats as soon as possible. Free tickets for MIT ID holders are available on a first-come, first-served basis at the door on the day of the event.

Your registration through Eventbrite guarantees you a seat until the event start time. After the concert start time, we will release open seats to the standby list. If you were not able to register through Eventbrite, you may join the physical standby line in the Thomas Tull Concert Hall Lobby up to one hour before the concert start time.

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