Dec. 2 – Rambax Senegalese Drum Ensemble. Lamine Toure and Patricia Tang, co-directors. 8pm, Lobdell, MIT Stratton Student Center. Free.
Dec. 3 – MIT Concert Choir, William Cutter, Music Director. Gabriel Faure, Requiem;
Herbert Howells, Take him earth for cherishing: Virgil Thomson, Stabat mater. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
Dec. 4 – MIT Chamber Music Society Two Piano Concert. 7pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
Dec. 5 – MIT Folk Music (21M223) presents
Elijah Wald, author and former world music critic
for the Boston Globe. Wald will speak about
American Blues singer and musician
Robert Johnson and the birth of the Delta Blues.
7:30pm, Rm. 4-231. Free.
Dec. 9 – MIT Wind Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor. Masterworks of International Influence. Saint-Saëns, Orient et Occident; Rogers, Three Japanese Dances; Grainger, Lincolnshire Posy; Dahl, Sinfonietta; Hindemith, March from Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Carl Maria von Weber. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
Dec. 10 – MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, Music Director. Mozart: Piano concerto in Eb major, K. 482 (David Deveau, soloist); Mahler: Symphony #1. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
Dec. 11 - Boston Chamber Music Society, Marcus Thompson, Music Director. Lorna McGhee, flute; Alexander Fiterstein, clarinet; Harumi Rhodes, violin; Peter Stumpf, cello; Randall Hodgkinson, piano. Beethoven, Variations for Cello and Piano on “See the conqu’ing hero comes” from Handel’s Judas Maccabeus, WoO 45; Brahms, Clarinet Trio in A minor, Op. 114; Bach, Trio sonata from The Musical Offering, BWV 1079; Schoenberg, Chamber Symphony in E Major, Op. 9, arr. By A. Webern, flute, clarinet, violin cello and piano. 4pm, Kresge Auditlorium. For tickets Tel: 617.349.0086· Email: info@bostonchambermusic.org. Visit: http://www.bostonchambermusic.org
Dec. 12 – MTA Composer Forum features Terry Riley in a talk about his new work for gamelan (his first for that medium), to be premiered at Kresge on Dec 15. 5pm, MIT Lewis Music Library, 14E-109. A Reception will follow. Free. Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Dec. 15 – MIT Gamelan Galak Tika, Evan Ziporyn, Music Director. Minimalist legend and world music iconoclast Terry Riley in a rare Boston-area appearance, joining forces with MIT’s own Gamelan Galak Tika in a world premiere of a new work for voice, electronics, keyboard, and gamelan. Terry Riley revolutionized music with 1964′s seminal In C, which launched minimalism into public consciousness. He went on to redraw the musical map through his ventures in Indian music, jazz, just intonation, and electronics. His numerous collaborations with the Kronos Quartet have brought his work to a new audience; today, at 75, he continues to explore new territory by composing for Balinese gamelan. Also on the program, new works and improvisations by Riley for piano and pipe organ. 7:30pm, Kresge Auditorium. Tickets: Gen. Adm. $20; Students $10; MIT Faculty and staff $10; MIT Students Free. Tickets: http://terryriley-at-mit.eventbrite.com
