Composer John Harbison, MIT Institute Professor, was awarded the György Kepes Fellowship Prize by the Council for the Arts at MIT. The Prize was established in 1982 to encourage and celebrate individuals at the Institute whose creative work reflects the vision and values of György Kepes (1906-2002...
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS PRESENTS: IN MY MIND & IN MY CAR
Oct 24, 2015 • 10pm / doors 9:30pm NATIONAL SAWDUST
Co-created by composers Evan Ziporyn and Christine Southworth, In My Mind & In My Car is an audio-visual journey for live bass clarinet, video, and electronics. This 10 pm performance...
Camerata Pacifica is thrilled to present its first recording, released by Harmonia Mundi U.S.A.
This disc of chamber works by John Harbison features the Camerata-commissioned String Trio and performances by Amy Schwartz Moretti, Paul Huang, Richard O'Neill, Ani Aznavoorian, Adrian Spence, Jose...
The New York Times
Music Review: Persona, an Opera Based on the Ingmar Bergman Film
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
October 26, 2015
It’s understandable why many composers have turned to great films as subjects for operas. A film provides a ready-made narrative structure and, often, a score that suggests...
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Deveau Plumbs Schumann's Public Privacy
by David Moran
For the last decades David Deveau has perhaps been better-known as Rockport Music Festival chief, chamber musician, and MIT faculty member, than as a recitalist. On the basis of Saturday night’s performance at...
Ayesha Jordan
Come See My Double D’s
October 29 – 31 at 8 pm
Performance artist Ayesha Jordan brings her offbeat sense of humor and commitment to technological innovation back to JACK with her third solo production, Come See My Double D’s, an immersive landscape of song, text and movement probing...
WQXR
Siegfried Idyll
David Deveau, piano
Steinway & Sons
Available at Arkivmusic.com
Review:
While seldom heard today, Richard Wagner's assistant and musical disciple, Josef Rubinstein, made several alternate versions of the composer’s Siegfried Idyll, originally written for chamber orchestra...
It’s Alive Play Reading Series curated by Anna Kohler presents:
我爱XXX - I Love XXX - by Meng Jinghui, Huang Jingang, Wang Xiaoli, Shi Hang (1994). Translated and directed by Claire Conceison.
About the play
Written by four alumni friends in a college dorm room in Beijing, I Love XXX is an...
Coached by Keala Kaumeheiwa under the auspices of the MIT Chamber Music Society, the CMS Jazz Combos will present a concert that will include:
Cornbread - Lee Morgan
Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tico Tico - Zequinha Abreu/Eurico Barreiros
Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez, arr. Henry Kavle
All Blues...
This concert opens the 23rd season with two world premieres and traditional Balinese dance music for gamelan gong kebyar. The performance includes premieres of Glass, composed by former member Robin Buyer, and Nasi Goreng, composed by Assistant Musical Director, Sam Schmetterer. The group will also...