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...
FiLmprov, the union of animated film and improvisation with Kate Matson and Mark Harvey, Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts. Filmprov presents LOOK and LISTEN, a new film by animator/artist Kate Matson and live soundtrack by the FiLmprov Ensemble: Rob Bethel, cello; Peter Bloom, Phil Scarff...
MIT’s annual event honoring Boston jazz legend and MIT’s “Father of Jazz,” Herb Pomeroy. MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director. Special Guests: Mark Harvey (composer, conductor, trumpet) and Arni Cheatham, saxophone and Cory Pesaturo, accordion. Music by Charlie Parker,...