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As of the Fall of 2017, the Theater Arts program has moved to its new home in W97.
Music and Theater Arts (MTA) manages and grants access to five Registrar classrooms located on the first and third floors of Building 4. Emerson/Harris Piano scholarship students and ONE student in each Chamber Music Society (CMS) group are granted access to these rooms for practice. All classrooms have pianos.
For access, contact: mta-request@mit.edu.
Classroom Use Policies
MTA academic classes and ensembles, curricular rehearsals and requests from MTA faculty and staff have priority to use the five MTA managed Registrar classrooms in building 4.
Note: access to equipment in the MTA managed Registrar classrooms must be requested. Additional usage guidance will be provided when access to the equipment is given. Please contact mta-reserve@mit.edu for more details.
Access is granted to ASA groups from 8pm to 12am Monday through Friday and from 7am to 12am on Saturday and Sunday. The reservation system for ASA students does not open until two weeks into the semester to ensure class reservations, CMS, and Emerson/Harris times are reserved. Card access will be given to the executive email list for each ASA group using the space.
There is no access to classrooms during the summer.
GENERAL POLICY:
There are 8 practice rooms located in Building 4 (4-260), each of which is equipped with a piano.
-Who is eligible to use practice rooms?
-How do students reserve a MTA Practice Room?
Some of the campus dormitories have small practice rooms. Two practice rooms are located on the 4th floor of the Stratton Student Center (W20) and are available to all MIT community members with an MIT ID card. For information regarding the Student Center practice rooms, contact the Campus Activities Complex W20-5th floor of the Student Center, 253-3913.
Killian Hall is a 140-seat performance space used primarily for solo and chamber music recitals, lectures, and theater readings. Faculty in Music and Theater Arts have first rights and full authority to reserve the space. Reservations from outside the program will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Use is subject to a rental fee. For more information or to submit a rental request, please email musicevents@mit.edu.
The Rosalind Denny Lewis Music Library serves the instructional, research, and recreational needs of the MIT community. The collection contains books, journals, scores, CDs, DVDs, streaming audio and video, e-scores/e-books, and music databases. The library collects classical, world, jazz, popular, electronic, folk, and film music, among others.
There are listening/viewing areas, comfortable study spaces, equipment to digitize various audio formats, plus iMac stations with music software. The library circulates audio and video equipment, such as handheld audio/video recorders and microphones. The library space hosts many music lectures and recitals. A friendly and knowledgeable staff is ready to help you.
The library was renovated in 1996. Watch the Lewis Music Library 20th anniversary video here.