The New York Times
Music Review: Persona, an Opera Based on the Ingmar Bergman Film
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
October 26, 2015
It’s understandable why many composers have turned to great films as subjects for operas. A film provides a ready-made narrative structure and, often, a score that suggests...
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
Deveau Plumbs Schumann's Public Privacy
by David Moran
For the last decades David Deveau has perhaps been better-known as Rockport Music Festival chief, chamber musician, and MIT faculty member, than as a recitalist. On the basis of Saturday night’s performance at...
Ayesha Jordan
Come See My Double D’s
October 29 – 31 at 8 pm
Performance artist Ayesha Jordan brings her offbeat sense of humor and commitment to technological innovation back to JACK with her third solo production, Come See My Double D’s, an immersive landscape of song, text and movement probing...
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Siegfried Idyll
David Deveau, piano
Steinway & Sons
Available at Arkivmusic.com
Review:
While seldom heard today, Richard Wagner's assistant and musical disciple, Josef Rubinstein, made several alternate versions of the composer’s Siegfried Idyll, originally written for chamber orchestra...
It’s Alive Play Reading Series curated by Anna Kohler presents:
我爱XXX - I Love XXX - by Meng Jinghui, Huang Jingang, Wang Xiaoli, Shi Hang (1994). Translated and directed by Claire Conceison.
About the play
Written by four alumni friends in a college dorm room in Beijing, I Love XXX is an...
Coached by Keala Kaumeheiwa under the auspices of the MIT Chamber Music Society, the CMS Jazz Combos will present a concert that will include:
Cornbread - Lee Morgan
Corcovado - Antonio Carlos Jobim
Tico Tico - Zequinha Abreu/Eurico Barreiros
Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez, arr. Henry Kavle
All Blues...
This concert opens the 23rd season with two world premieres and traditional Balinese dance music for gamelan gong kebyar. The performance includes premieres of Glass, composed by former member Robin Buyer, and Nasi Goreng, composed by Assistant Musical Director, Sam Schmetterer. The group will also...
A concert featuring: jazz guitarist and composer, Ben Monder; vocalists: Liz Tobias, Samantha Fomon, and Sandra Bayona, with the FJE under the direction of Frederick Harris. The program includes small and large ensemble music by Monder, Monk, Thad Jones, Hermeto Pascoal, Sergio Mendes, Bob...
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. Directed by master Senegalese drummer Lamine Touré, Rambax is open to MIT students, faculty, staff and alumni.
Justin Casinghino's piece will be premiered on Tuesday March 8th, 2016, at 1pm at Carnegie Hall Stern Auditorium, as part of the New York Wind Band Festival. The piece was jointly commissioned by World Projects, Inc. and the Boston Composers Coalition.
Tickets and information
About Justin...
