A showing of the work by students in 21M.851 / Drawing for Designers
Opening Reception on December 7 at 6pm
New Life for Gatsby: Harbison’s Roaring ‘20s Opera
Has Its European Premiere in December
MIT Institute Professor John Harbison’s opera The Great Gatsby will have its first European performance at Dresden Semperoper this month. Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera in celebration of renowned...
Ellen T. Harris, Class of 1949 Professor of Music Emeritus will be teaching a graduate course on Handel at the Juilliard School. A musicologist whose work focuses on Handel, Baroque opera, and vocal performance practice, her most recent book, George Frideric Handel: A Life with Friends, earned her...
Video by MIT student Marisa Nienberg '16 as part of 21W.749, Documentary Photography and Photojournalism
Presented by Collage New Music Ensemble, David Hoose, conductor, with Nina Guo, soprano, this concert is dedicated to the memory of MIT composer, Edward Cohen, who died at the early age of 61 in 2002. The program features works by: MIT alumna Nina Young ‘07, Tethered Within (2013); Edward Cohen,...
Accidental Quintet:
Sarah Abraham, bassoon
Anya Brodrick, horn
Emily Fritz-Endres, clarinet
Britta Swedenborg, flute
Paul Ragaller, oboe/sax
Program:
RAVEL (arr. SCHULLER/arr. RAGALLER) Le Tombeau de Couperin
PIAZZOLLA (arr. RAGALLER) Histoire du Tango
MILHAUD Le Cheminee du Roi Rene
PDQ BACH (...
Richard Wagner, Siegfried Idyll
Gabriel Lesnick 16, conductor
Antonin Dvorak, Serenade for Strings
Dominique Hoskin (G), conductor
Presenting the long-awaited Boston premiere of Morton Feldman’s epic, six-hour, uninterrupted String Quartet No. 2. The Flux Quartet was the first group to undertake this late 20th-century masterwork of sustained, quiet intensity, developing new performance techniques to deal with the piece’s...
Malinda J. McPherson, 23, holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cognitive Science from Johns Hopkins University, and an MPhil in Music and Science from the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Malinda was a member of Churchill College, and was a Churchill Scholar. Malinda is currently a PhD student in the...
Amadou Lamine Touré comes from a long line of griots, a caste of musicians and oral historians among the Wolof people of Senegal. Founded by griot percussionist Lamine Touré, Group Saloum fuses Senegalese mbalax with elements of jazz, funk, reggae, and Afrobeat. The group performs original mbalax...