The worldwide impact of wunderkind theatre director Reza Abdoh's explosive work is finally brought to light twenty years after his death from AIDS. Director Adam Soch’s new documentary features live performance footage and interviews with those closest to him.
“How can it be that the world finds...
A screening of 1993’s radical re-imagining of blaxploitation film Mandingo as a talk show/night club act between junkie Blaster and MC Moishe Pipik.
“One of the best, most astonishing and mind-blowing theater experiences I've had in my life.” — actress and writer Colleen Werthmann
Additional...
Professor Diana Henderson hosts theater maker and artistic director Karin Coonrod at MIT to develop text-based theatrical works. Henderson collaborated with Coonrod’s theater company Compagnia de’ Colombari for an international production of The Merchant of Venice in the Venetian Ghetto. At MIT,...
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Building 4-270
Free & Open to the Public
March Madness • CrossFit • Covering • Recruiting • Cubs Curse • Trump and Sport • Canes Storm Surge • Goalie Masks • VAR • Figure Skating Fashion • Performance of Race and Gender in Sport
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Romeo and Juliet Fantasy-Overture (1880) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Dominique Hoskin, conductor
Symphony No. 9 in E minor, “From the New World” (1893) Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)
Kevin Sackel, conductor
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Program:
Keeril Makan
Afterglow (2008)
Capture Sweetness (2018, US premiere)
Scott Wollschleger
Music Without Metaphor (2013)
Hans Otte
Book of Sounds (1979-1982)
3 Excerpts
intermission
Morton Feldman
For Bunita Marcus (1985)
"A restless, inquiring mind"
International Piano...
Talia Khan '20 (voice), Stacie Lin '19 (violin), Venkatesh Sivaraman '20 (piano)
Program
Still, still, still - Anonymous Austrian Carol, arranged by Michael Scott Cuthbert (2011)
Chanukah - Avraham Reisen
Es ist ein Roess entsprungenPraetorius (1609) -
Ave Maria - J.S. Bach/ C. Gounod
Al...
Stacie Lin'19, violin
Valerie Peng (G), viola
Jueun Lee'19, cello
Dominique Hoskin (G), bass
Yun Chang '19, piano
Jean Rife, Coach
Ralph Vaughan Williams(1872-1958)
Piano Quintet in C minor (1903)
I. Allegro con fuoco
II. Andante
III. Fantasai, quasi variazioni
Festival of Learning: Wednesday, Jan 30, 2019, 9 am - 4:30 pm.
Featured speakers
Charles Isbell (Georgia Tech)
D. Fox Harrell (MIT)
Tabitha Peck (Davidson)
Eran Egozy (MIT)
Also: Learning Expo, Workshops and Community Lunch
The Festival is free to the MIT community, but registration is...
About the Residency
As part of the inaugural MIT Performing season, Lisa Dwan, acclaimed Irish actress, producer and director, will examine the role of dance in Beckett’s work and the conversations he was having with the human body. Her lecture/demonstration, “A Body of Beckett,” explores the...
