MIT Music and Theater Arts celebrated the golden anniversary of its jazz program in the spring of 2013 with an exhibit in the Lewis Music Library, panel discussions with jazz artists and alumni, and a gala concert.
MIT’s jazz program was founded in 1963, but from the 1920s up until 1963, student-...
This 30-minute New England Emmy Award winning documentary features the March 2012 premiere of “Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music,” by composer Jamshied Sharifi ‘83. Commissioned by MIT Music and Theater Arts, with funding from the MIT Visiting Artists program, the work was first...
MIT Symphony Orchestra performs Jean Sibelius’ Symphony no. 2.
Recorded October 18, 2014
MIT Kresge Auditorium
MIT Symphony Orchestra performs Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Symphony no. 36, ‘Linz’.
Recorded October 18, 2014
MIT Kresge Auditorium
MIT Music in HD! is an hour-long program featuring a montage of music performances from the MIT150 Convocation: A Rhumba for Rafael Reif composed by Institute Professor John Harbison for President Reif’s Inauguration; the open rehearsal of the MIT Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gustavo Dudamel;...
Director Charlotte Brathwaite (Canada/Barbados/UK) is known for her unique approach to staging classical and unconventional texts, video, film, dance, visual art, multi-media, site-specific installation, performance art, plays and music events. Her work has been seen in the Americas, Europe,...
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Emerson Scholar Student Solo Recital: Andrew Wang (G), piano. Graham Ramsay, Six Preludes for Piano, Nos. 2 & 3; Bach, Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828; Stravinsky, Sonata for Piano.
Daniel Parker, piano, performs a program including: Chopin, Nocturne in B Major, Op. 62, No. 1; Brahms, Piano Sonata in C Major, Op. 1; Bach, Partita in C Minor, BWV 826. 7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Emerson Scholar Student Solo Recital: Evan Lynch (G), cello; Daniel Manesh, piano. Brahms, Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 2, Op. 99; Ligeti, Sonata for Solo cello; Debussy, Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Minor. Noon, Killian Hall. Free.