Tune in here starting at 7PM!
Music and Theater Arts is excited to announce an end of semester virtual concert of curated performances showcasing students in MTA ensembles. This livestream brings together the varied and creative projects undertaken in the Spring 2020 semester. Audiences...
How a self-described “Navy brat” and “geek” grew up to become a renowned and innovative music historian.
By MIT OpenCourseWare
Michael Cuthbert, MIT Associate Professor of Music, already has a long list of academic honors to his name, but his talent for creatively combining his two greatest...
What does it mean to be a mid-career playwright? The term implies time in the field, not necessarily age. You put in ten or more years being a writer, then lo and behold, you graduate from being an emerging writer to this mythological midway point in your career. These terms are—I suspect—the...
In a livestream production of Caryl Churchill’s 1990 tale of riot-torn Bucharest, quarantined Bard acting students grapple with revolution.
Revolution has come to Bucharest, and a society has exploded into shards. A multitude of writhing, flailing, falling bodies fills the screen during the...
CARMEN
For a discussion with performer India Carney, director Jay Scheib and festival artistic director Magda Romanska — tune in May 28, 2 pm EST (NYC), 8 pm CET (Berlin) – in the Zoom Room the conversation will also livestream on Facebook
Currently airing as part of the Theater Times...
MTA celebrates several internal honors each year, coordinated by faculty in Music and Theater. In lieu of a physical ceremony this page serves as a celebration of the many accomplishments our students achieved both in the 2019-2020 Academic Year as well as for the Class of...
By Grace Griffin Globe Correspondent,Updated May 21, 2020, 3:19 p.m.
Though Massachusetts Institute of Technology has postponed its in-person commencement ceremony, one professor devised a project to create community through music while graduates are apart.
The school contacted music technology...
Over 80 musicians comprised primarily of MIT Wind Ensemble (course 21M.426) students and MITWE alumni from across the globe, came together over the past months to produce a unique virtual performance of Jamshied Sharifi’s ’83, To The Light, To The Flame, conducted by Fred Harris. The piece...
MIT Virtual Jazz Concert
Friday, June 5, 2020 | 7PM
MIT Music and Theater Arts is excited to announce an end of semester virtual jazz concert featuring performances by the MIT Chamber Music Society Combos, MIT Emerson Scholars’ Advance Music Performance (AMP) Jazz Ensemble, MIT...
IN SOLIDARITY
Music and Theater Arts at MIT stands in solidarity with all those across the globe seeking justice for the countless individuals who have lost their lives at the hands of state-sanctioned violence. Our program acknowledges the tragic persistence of racism and injustice in the United...