DuoJalal’s performance at MIT focuses on work from their latest album, The Rumi Experience—designed to cultivate “sama,” or deep listening—combining Rumi’s poetry with commissioned works by composers Evan Ziporyn and Lev Zhurbin. The Rumi Experience premiered at the Williams Center in Easton, PA ...
Bringing World Music and Improvisation to Classical Compositions. duoJalal will explore their experiences with classical western composers (including Evan Ziporyn) and how they adapt World and Improv elements into their performances. They will present commissions and adaptations from composers...
The 2nd Annual Terry and Rick Stone Concert will feature a new arrangement by CAST Faculty Director Evan Ziporyn and alumnus Jamshied Sharifi of Blackstar, David Bowie’s last album that Maya Beiser, CAST's Mellon Distinguished Visiting Artist, will perform with Ambient Orchestra, a 60 piece...
The wind trio “No Dogs Allowed,” celebrating its 50th anniversary, dates from a period when groups had names like that. Clarinetists Ray Jackendoff and Steve Umans and bassoonist Tom Stephenson met in the MIT Orchestra in the fall of 1966 and formed the trio shortly thereafter. Over the past half...
Nicholas Tavani, violin; Rachel Shapiro, violin; Gregory Luce, viola; Alan Richardson, cello. The program will feature: Barber, String Quartet, Op. 11; Makan, Washed by Fire and Return; Schumann, String Quartet Op. 41, No. 3 in A Major. The quartet will return in May to perform a concert of...
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A lecture demonstration and book signing by Thomas Dolby about his experiences in the music and tech industries, the subject of his recently published memoir The Speed of Sound.
“Rapid advances in communications and computing power do NOT always lead to a parallel increase in human innovation....
Seven extraordinary pianists celebrate composer John Harbison
In a moment steeped in serendipity, an all-star collection of pianists will gather to celebrate the piano music of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Harbison on Wednesday, January 25, 2017 at 7:00 pm at premiere Brooklyn venue...
IAP Performance by the MIT Laptop Orchestra (MITLork), sponsored by Eran Egozy, Professor of the Practice in Music and Theater Arts, and directed by Chris Chronopoulos ’09 (Physics).
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Comprised of leading American vocal soloists, chamber musicians, and music educators, Skylark presents: Theorem, an exploration of mathematical forms in music featuring works by Tallis, Ockeghem, Byrd, Dufay, Britten, Norgard, Stockhausen, and Bach.
Mathematics...