Grace Yin doesn’t remember a time when she didn’t play violin. “Apparently my musical career started in day care,” says Yin ‘19, an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major from Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Friday, May 10, 2019 - 8:00PM
MIT Symphony Orchestra - Concerto Winner
Directed by Adam K. Boyles
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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In the Jungle of Cities
A Works/Process Presentation inspired by Bertolt Brecht’s genre-smashing play.
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Staring Luke Eure, Maxwell Fishelson, Rionna Flynn, Maude Gull, Ziad Mansour, Michael Sanabria, and Jessie Xiao.
Styled by Shanise...
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Sarah Iker joined the Music & Theater Arts Department at MIT as a Lecturer of Music Theory. Originally from southern California, Dr. Iker holds a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago (2017) and Bachelor of Arts degrees in Piano Performance and Mathematics from...
Senior Tony Zhang is double-majoring in physics and mathematics with computer science, and minoring in music. “People will ask you whether music informs physics or vice versa,” Zhang says. “I think the answer is: not really, but I think they’re very complementary.”
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Songs from Extrasolar Spaces
An Evening of Music Inspired by TESS
TESS is the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, an MIT-led NASA mission to discover new planets around nearby stars.
The program includes the latest public update of the first year of the TESS Mission with speakers Dr. George...
Ian Hattwick, Director
MIT Laptop Ensemble may be taken for credit: 21M.470
The MIT Laptop Ensemble is a forum for the exploration of emerging digital musical practices, giving ensemble members hands-on experience with a variety of techniques for composing and performing electronic music. Concerts...
New arrangements of classic instrumental tracks by David Bowie, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp & Harold Budd. Following on acclaimed acoustic versions of Bowie's Blackstar and Eno's Music for Airports and Discreet Music, Evan Ziporyn & Toronto's Contact Ensemble join forces for an evening of live...