Joe Maurer is delighted to return to his home state of Massachusetts to teach ethnomusicology courses at MIT. He received a Ph.D. in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago (2020) and a B.A. in Music, Public Policy, and Education from Brown University (2010). His primary areas of research...
Join us for a beautiful concert by the MIT Symphony Orchestra featuring faculty members Marcus Thompson and Natalie Lin Douglas.
PROGRAM
Haydn: Symphony no. 88 in G major
Britten: Double Concerto for Violin and Viola (Natalie Lin Douglas and Marcus Thompson)
INTERMISSION
Mayer: Symphony no. 5 in F...
SATURDAY, October 29, 2022 | 08:00 pm
MIT’s Annual Family Weekend Concert
Celebrating Musical Ingenuity
MIT Wind Ensemble & MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr. Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant conductor
A special program of diverse, reflective, and innovative...
The MIT Chamber Chorus marks the 350th anniversary of the death of composer Heinrich Schütz in a program that features his funeral masterwork, “Musikalische Exequien” alongside beloved works of the German choral tradition, including pieces by Hildegard von Bingen, J. S. Bach, Clara Schumann,...
The MIT Concert Choir presents the East Coast premiere of The Listeners by Pulitzer-Prize and GRAMMY®-award winning composer Caroline Shaw. This work for chorus, orchestra, and vocal soloists is a response to Carl Sagan’s Golden Record, launched into space within a NASA Voyager probe in 1977. The...
Saturday, November 12, 2022
8:00pm Kresge Auditorium, MIT
15th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert
Featuring flutist Elena Pinderhughes
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
LIVE STREAM LINK: https://web.mit.edu/webcast/mta/f22/6/
This annual event honoring Herb Pomeroy...
MIT Wind Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director | Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor
8th Annual Prism Concert Spectacular
MIT Wind Ensemble
Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director
Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor
Special guests: Iva Bittová & Evan Ziporyn
A unique amalgam of...
GOTONG ROYONG: A Winter Gamelan Concert
Join us for an afternoon of music and dance from Bali, featuring Gamelan Galak Tika, the MIT Gamelan Class, both under the direction of Gusti Komin, as well as the Cambridge Youth Gamelan, under the direction of Emeric Viani.
Gotong Royong (“work together”)...
Rambax MIT is an ensemble dedicated to learning the art of sabar, a vibrant drum and dance tradition of the Wolof people of Senegal, West Africa. Come experience the magic of Senegalese drums and get ready to dance!
Location: Lobdell, inside Stratton Student Center
Livestream Link: https://web.mit....
Presented as part of the Emerson/Harris Program for Private Study Fall Masterclass Series.
Praised by Gramophone as "One of the bravest, most intriguing musicians on the American Fusion Scene", cellist Mike Block joins MIT MTA for what will be an exciting Masterclass with current Emerson/Harris...
