MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Featuring MIT Alumni Jazz Band
Mark Harvey, Guest Conductor-Composer
Special Guest Artist: Sean Jones, trumpet
This annual concert honoring Herb Pomeroy, MIT’s “Father of Jazz,” features celebrated and immensely gifted...
Featuring Soloists
Matthew Roitstein, flute
David Deveau, piano
Samuel Barber - First Essay for Orchestra, op. 12
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K.314 (Matthew Roistein, soloist)
Richard Wagner - Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano...
MIT Wind Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director, Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor
Anat Cohen, guest clarinetist, Matthew Roitstein, guest flutist, and
Jamshied Sharifi, guest composer
This special program is a “festival of collaborations” with musicians associated with MIT and will serve...
GAMELAN GALAK TIKA
New and traditional Balinese music and dance
Evan Ziporyn, Artistic Director
4 pm CAMBRIDGE YOUTH GAMELAN
4:15 pm GAMELAN GALAK TIKA
W97 Black Box
345 Vassar Street, Cambridge MA
Gamelan Galak Tika closes its 25th season with a performance of new and traditional music &...
Not-So-Heavy Metals
On Sunday April 14, come hear us at the Cambridge Science Festival, at MIT’s Killian Recital Hall. “Not-So-Heavy Metals” features transducers and sheet metals in a display of sonic playfulness, melding sound processing with live instruments. Composers and sound artists David...
MIT Concert Choir
William Cutter, Conductor
Program
Brahms, Liebeslieder Waltzes, Op.52
Cutter, Spring Rituals
Brahms, Kleine Hochzeit-Kantate
Brahms, Taffellied, Op. 93
Deutsches Volksleider
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7:00pm Parley SnotBot, EarBot & Drones for Whale Research
Parley Pre-Concert Talk Featuring Drs. Iain Kerr & Roger Payne, Ocean Alliance
Cyrill Gutsch, Founder, Parley for the Oceans
Join Dr. Roger Payne, Dr. Iain Kerr, and Parley Founder Cyrill Gutsch as we dive into the world of whales...
MIT Chamber Chorus
William Cutter, Conductor
Program
Stravinsky - Ave Maria
Stravinsky - Pater Noster
Schnittke - Three sacred hymns
Borodin - Polovtsian Dances from “Prince Igor”
Tchaikovsky - Chorus of Peasant Girls - from “Eugene Onegin”
Also featuring additional Russian piano music and solo...
Program:
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D Minor, Op. 47
Grace Yin, Violin
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
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Music of Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schoenberg, and Harbison, including the Boston premiere of Harbison's Nocturne for piano.
Post-Concert Book Signing
John Harbison will be signing copies of his recently published book, "What Do We Make of Bach?". We will be selling copies of the book at the...
