This Advanced Music Performance Recital by Emerson Fellow Daniel Shaar ‘18, piano, will feature Bach, Toccata from Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830; Beethoven, Sonata No. 26 in E-flat Major, Op. 81a, Les Adieux; Chopin, Scherzo No. 1 in B Minor, Op. 20; Liszt, Transcendental Étude No. 4 in D Minor...
The program will include Beethoven, Sonata No. 31, Op. 110; Chopin, Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor, Op. 35.
Emerson Fellow Sylvain Carpentier (G) will perform Chopin, Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise Brillante, Op. 22; Ligeti, Etudes; Arc-en-ciel and L’escalier du diable; and Rachmaninov, selections from Etude-Tableaux Op. 33 and Op. 39.
Prism is a concert by the MIT Wind Ensemble. Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director; Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor. The program will include the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s Rubies (after Thelonious Monk’s Ruby, My Dear), La Fiesta Mexicana, A Mexican Folk Song Symphony for Winds by H....
Under the direction of Adam K. Boyles, the orchestra will perform:
John Williams, Olympic Fanfare and Theme
Brahms, Piano Concerto No. 2, Movt. I, with MIT senior Daniel Parker, a winner of the 2016 MITSO Concerto Competition
William Walton, Henry V: Suite for Chorus and Orchestra with the MIT...
Diversity, with fissures, in The Launch Prize
Stage Review in the Boston Globe
by Jeremy Goodwin, March 9, 2016
At the opening of “The Launch Prize,” four students of different ethnic backgrounds divide up a gallery space with tape, divvying up the natural resources — that is, floor area and wall...
NECMT / AMS-NE Joint Meeting, Day 1
New England Council of Music Theorists and American Musicological Society, New England Chapter Joint Meeting
Papers and discussion on the state of the field of musicology and music theory.
Friday, April 8, 2016
1pm-5:10pm
Lewis Music Library, MIT (14E-109)
AMS...
There’s A Big Gender Gap In Key Theater Jobs — Can Boston Change The Story?
BOSTON Certain circles in the nation’s professional theater world have taken to an unofficial ritual in recent years — watching for the annual wave of season announcements from theater companies, and then publicly...
As part of the Under the Dome 2016 MIT Open House in celebration of a Century in Cambridge, the MIT History Faculty and MIT Music and Theater Arts present
Silent Film in 1916: Screening, Live Music, and Roundtable
What was the impact of World War I in Cambridge in 1916?
What were the movies like...
Opera America announced that Elena Ruehr was one of seven recipients of an opera grant for female composers. Ruehr' received the grant for Crafting the Bonds a full-length opera spanning three centuries that is based on the rediscovery of The Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts, the first known...
