Oxford University Press has just released the second edition of Ellen T. Harris's book, "Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas" on the thirtieth anniversary of the first edition. OUP says of Professor Harris and the book, "Although widely regarded as the greatest operatic achievement of seventeenth-...
Evan Ziporyn, Keeril Makan, and Christine Southworth are featured on Sarah Cahill's highly acclaimed new CD, Eighty Trips Around the Sun: Music by and for Terry Riley. The pieces were all commissioned by MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology and received their world premieres at MIT Sounding...
Charlotte Brathwaite will be featured as part of The Public Theater's 14th annual Under the Radar Festival. "Under the Radar has an incredible track record of exposing New York audiences to the most exciting work in contemporary performance," comments Artistic Directory Oskar Eustis. "This year's...
The Boston University Wind Ensemble will perform Kathryn Salfelder's Prospect Hill: Flourish for Brass on November 16, 2017. The performance will take place at 8 pm in BU's Tsai Performance Center and will also be live-streamed here.
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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.
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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...