Visiting Professor Claire Conceison (Duke University) explores expressions of collective identity and Maoist nostalgia on stage in contemporary Beijing at a Cultural Revolution-themed “red restaurant” and in Meng Jinghui’s hit play “I Love XXX.”
Dr. Claire Conceison, Visiting Professor
A scholar,...
Elena Ruehr New Music, a review by Joshua Kosman
The four orchestral works of composer Elena Ruehr that are assembled on this alluring disc by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project are striking for their combination of rhapsodic, almost sinful lushness and a robust force that keeps the effect from...
Composer and Jazz pianist John Harbison's appearance at the Chamber Music Society of Minnesota on March 22, 2015 at 4pm will feature
Joseph Haydn’s final, unfinished String Quartet Op. 103, Hob. III:83 with 3rd movement, "Finale," by John Harbison
and other works by Harbison:
Jazz Trio, with...
On Tuesday, March 31 Chris Adler will perform Olivier Messiaen's Harawi with soprano Stephanie Aston. The performance will be 7:30 p.m. at Spectrum, 121 Ludlow in New York City.
This spectacular work is Messiaen's only concert-length song cycle. Composed in 1945, Harawi is an ecstatic exotic...
Mark Harvey, MIT Music and Theater Arts Lecturer, minister, trumpeter, and founding director of the Aardvark Jazz Orchestra, was named a --Jazz Hero-- by the Jazz Journalist Association in advance of Jazz Appreciation Month and the International Jazz Day. Jazz Heroes are educators, presenters,...
MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, director. Arturo Márquez, Danzón No. 2; Christine Southworth, La Fée verte with Christine Southworth, bagpipe;
and Charles Shadle, Symphony No. 3, a MITSO commission and world premiere. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Admission $5; Free in advance to the MIT...
Turkish pianist Gülsin Onay will appear in recital at Killian Hall (14W-111) on Sunday, April 26 at 4pm. Admission is free.
The program will include: Bach, Partita No. 1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825; Mendelssohn, Variations Serieuse, Op. 54; Chopin, Ballade No. 3 in A-flat Major, Op. 54, Nocturne in...
John Harbison's cantata Supper at Emmaus will be performed as part of the Cantata Series at Emmanuel Church on Sunday, April 19 at 10am.
An MIT Institute Professor and composer, Harbison is the Principal Guest Conductor of Emmanuel Music.
John Harbison: The Supper at Emmaus (2013)
Cantata on...
Director Frederick Harris Jr, announces the release of his Infinite Winds CD on Sunnyside Records. Dedicated to Herb Pomeroy, "Father of jazz at MIT," the recording features the MIT Wind Ensemble and the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble in first recordings of Chick Corea's From Forever and Don Byron's...
The MIT Council for the Arts Awards Committee announced it had conferred to three Music and Theater Arts students the following Institute Awards in the Arts:
The Louis Sudler Prize for Excellence in the Arts:
Peter Godart, Mechanical Engineering and Music
The Laya and Jerome Wiesner Awards in the...
