Nov. 10, Thursday - MTA Composer Forum features Julia Wolfe in a talk about her piece Steel Hammer, a new art ballad, the story of the story, to be performed by Bang on a Can All Stars at 7:30pm on November 12 in Kresge Auditorium. 5pm, MIT Lewis Music Library, 14E-109. A Reception will follow. Free. Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Jupiter String Quartet. Photo by Merri Cyr
Nov. 11, Friday - MIT Guest Artist Series presents Jupiter Quartet with pianist David Deveau. Dvorak, Piano Quintet; Prokofiev, Quartet No. 2 and Beethoven Quartet Op. 18, No. 6. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. Free.
The Jupiter String Quartet: violinists Nelson Lee and Megan Freivogel, violist Liz Freivogel and cellist Daniel McDonough. As they enter their tenth year of making music together, this tightly knit ensemble has firmly established itself as an important voice in the world of chamber music.
The Jupiter Quartet concertizes across the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia, and the Americas. They have enjoyed playing in some of the world’s finest halls and have been enthusiastically received at several major music festivals. Selected in the Young Concert Artists International auditions in 2005, the Jupiters have since received several chamber music honors including the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Cleveland Quartet Award from Chamber Music America, first prize in the Banff International String Quartet Competition (where they also received the Szekely Prize for best performance of a Beethoven quartet), and grand prize in the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition. From 2007-2010, the Quartet was in residence at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Chamber Music Two. They have recorded for Marquis records, iTunes and Deutsche Grammophon.
Director of Rockport Music and Senior Lecturer in Music at MIT, pianist David Deveau has been acclaimed internationally for his expressive and poetic interpretations of repertoire ranging from Haydn to the present. Active also as a chamber musician, he has performed with members of the Juilliard, Shanghai, Borromeo, Muir, Ying, Kronos, Orion and St. Lawrence string quartets, and has been a guest artist with the Boston Chamber Music Society, most recently performing the 2009 Boston premiere of John Harbison’s Piano Trio No. 2.
Photo: ©Stephanie Berger
Nov. 12, Saturday - MIT Guest Artists in Residence. Bang on a Can presents the Boston premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Steel Hammer (runner up for 2010 Pulitzer Prize) featuring Bang on a Can All-stars and Trio Mediaeval, with sets and staging by Jim Findlay and the Boston premiere of Michael Gordon’s Timber for 4 percussionists playing sawhorses, performed by Mantra Percussion http://www.mantrapercussion.org/data/gordon.htm. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium.
Admission: Gen. Adm. $20; Students $10; MIT Faculty and staff $10; MIT Students Free. Tickets: http://trio-bang-mantra.eventbrite.com
Nov. 13, Sunday - MITHAS presents Shujaat Khan,
North Indian sitar. 4pm, Wong Auditorium.
Tickets: MIT Students Free; $30 (adults); $20 (seniors); $10 (student). For further information, please contact mithastimes@gmail.com or (617) 258-7971.
http://web.mit.edu/mithas/www/concerts.html.
Nov. 14, Monday - MIT Folk Music (21M223)
presents a lecture demonstration by
Jeff Warner, Appalachian folklorist. His lecture
demonstration will be about
the music from Appalachia.
7:30pm, Killian Hall.
Nov. 18, Friday – MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, Frederick Harris, Music Director. The Art of Transformation. Featuring compositions and arrangements by Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Thad Jones, Hermeto Pascoal, Oliver Nelson, Guillermo Klein, Eddie Harris, and Herbie Hancock. 8pm, Kresge Auditorium. $5 at the door.
Nov. 19 & 20 Saturday & Sunday - MIT Chamber Chorus, William Cutter, Music Director. Gian Carlo Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors; Bach Cantata No. 64 Saturday 8pm, Kresge Little Theater. Sunday 2pm Amahl and the Night Visitors only. Kresge Little Theater. Free. Directed by Lynn Torgrove. Costumes by Leslie Held. Set by Sara Brown.
Nov. 21, Monday - MTA Composer Forum features
John Harbison in a talk about his Symphony No. 6
to be premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra this season. 5pm, MIT Lewis Music Library, 14E-109.
A Reception will follow. Free.
Funded in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT.
Nov. 28, Monday - MIT Folk Music (21M223)
presents a lecture demonstration by the
Library of Congress folklorist
Alan Jabbour. Mr. Jabbour’s lecture demonstration
will about West Virginian fiddle traditions.
7:30pm, Killian Hall.
Nov. 29, Tuesday – Jazz Combos Concert (MIT Chamber Music Society). 7:30pm, Killian Hall.
