Classical Playlist: ‘Siegfried Idyll,’ Rachmaninoff and ‘I Have Set My Hert So Hy’
By Anthony Tommasini
The New York Times
SIEGFRIED IDYLL’
Works by Liszt, Wagner and Brahms; David Deveau, pianist (Steinway & Sons)
There is some misunderstanding today about the 19th-century art of...
MITHAS presents: Ganesh and Kumaresh, Carnatic violinists, Shankaranarayanan Ramani, Mridangam, Trichy Krishnaswamy, Ghatam. 6pm, Wong Auditorium. Free for MITHAS members and students with ID. Admission: $30. Please check http://www.mithas.org or contact mithastimes@gmail.com for updated...
The MIT Center for Art, Science & Techonology, CAST's MIT Sounding Series presents Maya Beiser: Uncovered. Cellist Maya Beiser, accompanied by indie rock bassist/composer Jherek Bischoff on bass and Matt Kilmer on drums, performs music from her latest album Uncovered, featuring arrangements of...
The Music of the British Isles & North America Concert Sereis presents: Eden MacAdam-Somer, violinist, fiddler, singer and composer was described by The New York Times as demonstrating “astonishing virtuosity and raw expression.” 7:30 pm, Killian Hall. Free.
Welsh baritone Jeremy Huw Williams and pianist Paula Fan will present the world premiere of Primordia: A Song Cycle to Early Poems of Wallace Stevens, by MIT composer Charles Shadle, the premiere of a new arrangement of The Great Panjandrum by MIT composer Peter Child, the US premiere of William...
The Revere Piano Quartet: Jin-Kyung Joen, violin; Ronald Gorevic, violin/viola; MIT Emerson Instructor Eugene Kim, cello; and Tae Kim, piano. Featured on this program is the rarely heard Suite for 2 Violins, Cello and Piano Left Hand by Erich Korngold and the Fauré, Piano Quartet in G minor, Op. 45...
The Folk Music of the British Isles & North America presents: Brian Peters, singer, guitarist and melodeon player in the field of English traditional song and music. 7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.
About the artist:
Brian Peters is, according to the UK’s Living Tradition magazine “a top-notch...
An Evening of Music from Poland
MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, music director, feature Polish violinist Agata Szymczewska as part of a program of Polish music that will include Stanislaw Moniuszko, Mazurka from the opera Halka (Helen); Karol Szymanowski, Violin Concerto No. 1 with Agata ...
Persona, a new chamber opera based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 classic film, composed by Keeril Makan, with direction and libretto by Jay Scheib, previewed at MIT in a sold-out workshop performance on October 17 as part of MIT Sounding 2015-16. Rome Prize winner Makan and Obie-award winner Scheib —...
The Folk Music of the British Isles and North America Concert Series postponed Artist Peggy Seeger's visit.
Born in 1935 into one of America’s leading musical families, Peggy is Pete Seeger’s half-sister and daughter of musicologist Charles Seeger and composer Ruth Crawford Seeger. She is one of...
