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David Deveau with the Boston Symphony Orchestra Chamber Players

Two Reviews of a performance by pianist David Deveau with the BSO Chamber Players at Jordan Hall on Sunday, April 29. Boston Musical Intelligencer David Patterson “With David Deveau, the Chamber Players elevated the Brahms Trio in A Minor, Opus … Continue reading

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JAY SCHEIB RECEIVES MAP FUND GRANT

Writer, director and designer of plays, operas and installations, and winner of a 2012 Obie, Jay Scheib, Associate Professor of Theater Arts, was awarded a MAP Fund grant to support a production of Platonov, or the Disinherited.   This site-specific motion-portrait … Continue reading

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Two new theater events!

April 24. 2013 IT’S ALIVE!!! staged play readings featuring students, professional actors, and faculty presents Kurt Weill’s Happy End, a musical comedy, directed by Kim Mancuso. 7pm, Killian Hall.  Free May 6, 2013 IT’S ALIVE!!! staged play readings featuring students, … Continue reading

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Elektra Opens April 4th

Elektra after Euripides MIT Theater Arts and MIT Dramashop Present! Elektra after the play by Euripides, adapted and directed by Jay Scheib with Stage Design by Sara Brown, Lit by Karen Perlow, Costumes by Laine Rettmer, Sound by Bozkurt Karasu, … Continue reading

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MIT Wind Ensemble, Ziporyn and Byron Review

Fuse Jazz Review: MIT Wind Ensemble and Two Clarinet Luminaries Serve Up Something Special  Featured, Jazz, Music  Add comments Mar 182013   Recipe for a memorable evening at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium: two of the world’s great clarinetists, an inspiring conductor, … Continue reading

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Events March 10-17

        Wed | 13 | CAST Music and Technology Seminar Series presents Arnold Dreyblatt.  Dreyblatt’s musical and artistic practice has ranged from large multi-day performances to permanent installations, digital projections, dynamic textual objects, and multi-layered lenticular text … Continue reading

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Dr. Emery Stephens Traces the Origins of the African American Spiritual

On Friday, February 22, 2013 at 7pm at MIT’s Killian Hall, Dr. Emery Stephens, baritone and Assistant Professor of Voice in the College of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts at Wayne State University and Pamela Wood, soprano, MIT Senior Lecturer … Continue reading

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Valentine’s Day Concert

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RUEHR STRING QUARTET #6 REVIEW

Cypress String Quartet: Triumph of Beauty “After intermission, it was a Call & Response commission, Elena Ruehr’s 2012 String Quartet No. 6, this time in response to Mozart and, yet again, to Beethoven. The composer herself spoke before the performance, … Continue reading

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John Harbison on Performance Today

John Harbison at Aspen As a young man, composer John Harbison was passionate about both jazz and classical music. At the time, he felt he had to choose between the two, and picked classical. Times have changed, and nowadays he’s … Continue reading

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