on January 27, 2016 at 6:00 am
Two weeks ago, the music world was devastated by the sudden news of David Bowie’s death from cancer at age 69. His final album, Blackstar, had been released three days prior, with no outward signs that anything was wrong. It seemed that the dazzling, genre-smashing musician would never stop exploring and changing, but death is the one change that is impossible to rewrite.
 Keeril Makan named vice provost for the artsAn acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.
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 The “delicious joy” of creating and recreating musicLeslie Tilley combines deep experience as a musician with cultural and formal analysis, to see how people refashion music anew.
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 Seen and heard: The new Edward and Joyce Linde Music BuildingUntil 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.
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 Travels with RambaxKAOLACK, 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 …”
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