"Once again, my list includes a release from the Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s ongoing and indispensable series of recordings. I’ve long enjoyed Peter Child’s excellent music and have reviewed a past album of his chamber music. This release of his orchestral works is anchored by a particularly...
“For many years, I took the attitude, and would counsel composers in general, to just go forward,” he said during a recent phone interview. Focus on writing the next work to be written; the aggregate will take care of itself.
About five years ago, though, Harbison, who turned 80 at the end of last...
Caleb Hammond and Sean Salstrom’s performance/installation Failing The Sun premieres January 17th at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk Virginia. Failing The Sun is a night of molten ooze, shattered vessels and immersive projected imagery. Combining movement, choreography, hot glass, live cameras and...
MIT Affiliate Artist Yukiko Sekino will present a piano recital featuring:
Mozart: Sonata in A minor, K. 310
Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
Chopin: Nocturne in B major, Op. 9 No. 3
Chopin: Etude in E minor, Op. 25 No. 5 & Etude in A-flat major, Op. 10 No...
The House of Correction AR Mural Project is an ongoing collaboration between The Suffolk County Sheriff’s Department and several groups at MIT including Music and Theater Arts, The Borderline Mural Project, The Educational Justice Institute (TEJI), and Arts at MIT. The project was pioneered and...
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WHAT DO WE MAKE OF BACH?
Portraits, Essays, Notes
"A superb small book ... intense and moving ... lucid and instructive." - Michael Fried
"Fascinating collection of biographical sketches, essays, and program notes ... a memoir of [Harbison's] evolution as a composer and...
Forgotten Paradise: Gazette’s Sun is an experiment in creative nonfiction filmmaking, installation and live performance. It traces the lineage of Director Charlotte Brathwaite’s family history against the backdrop of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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Montreal-based startup The Phenomena has created an immersive virtual experience based on the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Using groundbreaking wearable haptics systems created by Ian Hattwick, participants encounter Egyptian gods as they physically advance via a treadmill through multiple realms....
In celebration of John Harbison’s 80th-birthday year, the Boston Symphony Chamber Players offered a half-century spectrum of his chamber music at Jordan Hall on Sunday, topping off the afternoon with a Bach cantata in honor of Harbison’s lifelong dedication to that repertory.
Harbison’s Duo for...
