Professor Claire Conceison gave a lecture at Duke University "Faith on the Field: Performing Religion in Sport" in October and another in November at Western Connecticut State University titled "Arthur Miller and 'Death of a Salesman' in Beijing". On November 16th, she'll give a third titled "China...
On November 18, the Radius Ensemble will perform their second concert of the season at the Longy School of Music. The concert includes works by Libby Larson, Charles Loeffler, Mozart, and Elena Ruehr's LUCY for piano, strings, clarinet, and flute.
The performance of LUCY will feature live streaming...
W97, Theater Arts new faculity, opens with six performances of Everybody, directed by Senior Lecturer Anna Kohler.
Everybody "is a 2017 play based on 'Everyman,' the venerable 15th century English morality play. As performed last week at MIT, 'Everybody' at once updates a masterwork from the...
MIT World Music Day
Saturday, December 2, 2017
Location: Kresge Auditorium and Lobdell Hall
4pm: Rambax MIT
Lobdell Hall, Stratton Student Center, W20 - 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Senegalese Drum Ensemble
Directed by Lamine Touré
7pm: Gamelan Galak Tika (w/Cambridge Youth Gamelan)
MIT...
The winners of the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards were announced Sunday night at London's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Bat out of Hell, directed by Professor Jay Scheib, won the Evening Standard Radio 2 Audience Award for Best Musical. The award is decided on by public vote.
For more...
The 2017-18 Terry and Rick Stone Concert is a Faculty Recital by violist, Marcus Thompson, who was named Institute Professor in June 2015. The evening will include the Boston premiere of the chamber version of Shadow/Light for solo viola and string orchestra, written for Thompson by MIT composer...
Four members of the MTA faculty received funding from the MIT SHASS Research Fund for upcoming projects. Congratulations to Charlotte Brathwaite, Sara Brown, Fred Harris, and Mark Harvey!
Read the full article here.
Charlotte Brathwaite | Assistant Professor, Music and Theater Arts
SHASS research...
Professors Patricia Tang and Ellen Harris both have newly-published essays in "Out of Bounds: Ethnography, History, Music," ed. Ingrid T. Monson, Carol J. Oja, and Richard K. Wolf," a collection of essays in honor of Kay Kaufman Shelemay (official publication date January 2018): Harris, "...
On December 21st, Interfaith Voice re-aired Ellen Harris' 2011 interview about Handel's Messiah on its 86 stations. Listen here.
Ken Urban's band Occurrence just released a new song for the holidays, "The Time Of Year." It features Ken on electronics and synths, Johnny Hager on vocals and Cat Hollyer on voice memos.
You can purchase the the song here.
