November 2013

1 | Fri | MIT Affiliated Artist Piano Trio Concert: Heng-Jin Park, piano; Gabriela Diaz, violin; and Jing Li, cello.  Beethoven:  Sonata for violin and piano, #2, in A Major, Opus 12, #2; Mozart, Duo for violin and viola in B flat (K. 424) arranged for violin and cello; Beethoven, Sonata for piano and cello #4 in C Major, Opus 102, #1; Dvorak, Piano Trio #3 in F minor, Opus 65. 8pm, Killian Hall.  Free.

2 | Sat | Aardvark Jazz Orchestra presents: original works by Mark Harvey as part of 21M342,Composing for Jazz Orchestra.  8pm, Killian Hall, Free.

3 | Sun | MITHAS presents: Partho Bose, Sitar.  4pm, Wong Auditorium. Tickets: $30 (adults); $20 (seniors); $10 (students); free for members and MIT students. Please checkhttp://www.mithas.org or contactmithastimes@gmail.com for tickets and final listings.

4 | Mon | Folk Music presents: Sparky and Rhonda Rucker, internationally acclaimed folk musicians who weave history and storytelling into their performances.  7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.

Cancelled/rescheduled:
6 | Wed | MTA Composer Forum presents: Charles Shadle, MIT Senior Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts.  Western Saddlebag: Cowboy Songs and the Craft of Composition. The talk will focus on Western Saddlebag, a newly composed suite of arrangements of traditional cowboy melodies for piano. 5pm, Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.  Free. A reception will follow.

7-9 | Th-Sat | Dramashop presents: One Acts, student written, produced and performed.  The Master Poisoner by Maxwell Bodenheim and Ben Hecht (directed by Klaudia Leja), Hello Out There by William Saroyan (directed by Hrant Gharibyan), and Riverside Drive by Woody Allen (directed by Bruno Tambasco). 8pm, Kresge Little Theater.  Free.

8 | Fri | MTA Guest Artist Series presents: American music specialist and pianist Alan Feinberg in Recital. Performing Chopin, Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22; Wuorinen, Sonata no. 3 and works of, Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, and others.   8pm, Killian Hall. Free.

9 | Sat | MIT Gamelan Galak Tika, Peter Steele guest artistic director. This concert will feature both traditional and new music, including the North American premiere of I Dewa Ketut Alit’s award-winning Caru Wara and the world premiere of a new gamelan work by Sam Schmetterer featuring Balinese dancer, Shoko Yamamuro. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium.  General admission $5; Free, in advance only, to MIT community with MIT email address.  Tickets: http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/and at the door.

15 | Fri | MIT Symphony Orchestra, Adam K. Boyles, music director in collaboration with the MIT Concert Choir, William Cutter, music director. Verdi: Stabat Mater; Verdi: Te Deum; Nielsen: Symphony No. 4, Opus 29, The Inextinguishable. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. General admission $5; Free, in advance only, to MIT community with MIT email address.  Tickets at:http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door.

15 | Fri | Ellipsis Trio: Amanda Wang, violin, (MIT Class of 2003); Patrick Owen, cello; Tae Kim, piano.  Works of Muhly, Piazzolla and Schoenfield. 7:30pm, Killian Hall.  Free. http://www.ellipsistrio.com

Please note performance time changes:
16 | Sat | MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Music Director.  Karen Harvey, harpsichord. with the Boston Conservatory String Quintet. Two performances of Purcell, Dido and Aeneas, Directed by Lynn Torgove.  Shows at 2pm and 4pm, Killian Hall. Free. General admission $5; Free, in advance only, to MIT community with MIT email address. Tickets: http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door.

17 | Sun | MITHAS presents Sanhita Nandi, Khyal. 4pm, Wong Auditorium. Tickets: $30 (adults); $20 (seniors); $10 (students). Regular concerts are free for members and MIT students. Please check http://www.mithas.org or contactmithastimes@gmail.com for tickets and final listing.

18 | Mon | Folk Music presents: Tim Eriksen, acclaimed for transforming American tradition with interpretations of old ballads, love songs, shape-note gospel and dance tunes from New England and Southern Appalachia. 7:30pm, Killian Hall.  Free.

20 | Wed | MTA Composer Forum presents: Peter Child, MIT Professor in Music and Theater Arts, in a talk about recent music. 5pm, Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.  A reception will follow.

SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST CONCERTS on Nov. 8, 21, 22 and 23

8 | Fri | MTA Guest Artist Series presents: American music specialist and pianist Alan Feinberg in Recital. Performing Chopin, Andante Spianato and Grande Polonaise, Op. 22; Wuorinen, Sonata no. 3 and works of, Bull, Byrd, Gibbons, and others.   8pm, Killian Hall. Free.

21 | Thu | MIT Faculty Series presents: Cellist Mariel Roberts premieres Evan Ziporyn’s Old Growth for cello and electronics, also works by Andy Akiho and Tristan Perich, and selections from her critically acclaimed Non-extraneous Sounds CD.  8pm, Killian Hall.  Free. Visit: marielroberts.com.

22 | Fri | The MIT Visiting Artist Series in collaboration with MIT Music and Theater Arts will present a series of concerts by the Jupiter String Quartet featuring Beethoven’s complete string quartet cycle in six visits to the MIT campus as part of a two-year residency. Their first concert will take place on Friday, November 22 at 8pm in Kresge Auditorium.  The program will include quartets Op. 18, No. 6; Op. 59, No. 3; and Op. 127.  General admission is $5; free in advance only to MIT community with MIT email address. Tickets are available at http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door.

23 | Sat | The Musical Worlds of Miguel Zenón.  MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, director, with special guest saxophonist-composer Miguel Zenón, feature rarely heard big band arrangements of Zenón’s music, small group compositions, music of Ellington, Mingus, Kenny Werner, Guillermo Klein, Magali Souriau, and the world premiere of Indigo by Peter Godart, ’15.  8pm, Kresge Auditorium.  General admission $5; Free, in advance only, to MIT community with MIT email address.  Tickets:http://mitmta.eventbrite.com/ and at the door.  Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.

About Miguel Zenón:

A multiple Grammy Nominee and Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellow, Miguel Zenón represents a select group of musicians who have masterfully balanced and blended the often contradictory poles of innovation and tradition. Widely considered as one of the most groundbreaking and influential saxophonists of his generation, he has also developed a unique voice as a composer and as a conceptualist, concentrating his efforts on perfecting a fine mix between Latin American Folkloric Music and Jazz.

Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Zenón has released eight recordings as a leader, including Oye!!! Live in Puerto Rico (2013) and the Grammy-Nominated Alma Adentro (2011).

As a sideman he has worked with jazz luminaries such as The SFJAZZ Collective, Charlie Haden, Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner, David Sánchez, The Mingus Big Band, Bobby Hutcherson and Steve Coleman. Zenón has been featured in articles inThe New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, as well as gracing the cover of Downbeat Magazine. He has also toped the Rising Star Alto Sax category of the Downbeat Critic’s Poll on four different occasions and was chosen by both the 2012 Jazz Times Reader’s and Critic’s Poll as the top Alto Saxophonist of the year.

As a composer he has been commissioned by SFJAZZ, The New York State Council for the Arts, Chamber Music America, The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and many of his peers.

Zenón has given hundreds of lectures and master classes at institutions all over the world, and is a permanent faculty member at New England Conservatory of Music. In 2011 he founded Caravana Cultural, a program that presents free-of-charge Jazz concerts in rural areas of Puerto Rico. In April 2008 Zenón received a fellowship from the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Later that year he was one of 25 distinguished individuals chosen to receive the coveted MacArthur Fellowship, also known as the “Genius Grant.” For more info: www.miguelzenon.com

25 | Mon | IT’S ALIVE!!! A series of staged play readings featuring students, professional actors, and faculty, directed by Anna Kohler, presents Laura Harrington’s Lost at Sea. 7:30pm, Killian Hall. Free.

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