MIT offers a conservatory-level music program that offers performance, scholarship, and scientific inquiry, along side a rigorous theater academic program. In addition, many students choose extra-curricular activities in music and theater from the many performance student groups.
Jamshied Sharifi and Fred Harris
This is a 21M.863 exercise using a close up scene. This scene is modeled after Nicole Kidman in Birth.
A violin concert hosted by the Lewis Music Library on April 8, 2011
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MIT students perform the Piano String Trio No. 1 in D Minor composed by Anton Arensky. Bravo to violinist Pam Cai, cellist June Kim, and pianist Ray Hwa Wu. And thanks to their coach Marcus thompson. Four movements: Allegro, Scherzo, Elegia, and Finale. Killian Hall, ...
High tech tools have become a means for both creating and communicating art. For some of the symposium panelists, this poses a mixed blessing.
Jamshied Sharifi was commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble to create an extended composition that recognizes the Arab Spring, a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests occurring in the Arab World that began in December 2010. The piece uses ...
Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, December 5, 1987 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Allegro Jump to: II. Adagio Jump to: III. Allegro Jump to: IV. Menuetto Jump to: V. Trio Jump to: ...
Bach, Concerto in d for Two Violins and Orchestra MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Jin Choi and Grant Ho, violins Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, December 7, 1996 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Vivace Jump to: II. Largo ...
Bach, Concerto in d minor for Two Violins, BWV 1043 MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) Neal Stulberg, guest conductor Arthur Hu and David McCall, violins Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, May 9, 1981 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Vivace Jump to: ...
Bach, orchestrated by Schoenberg, Prelude and Fugue in E-flat for Organ (St. Anne) MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, November 2, 1974 CD available at the Lewis Music Library
Oral history interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founding member of the MIT Media Lab, and computer music pioneer and composer. Interviewed by Forrest Larson and Mark Ethier, MIT Lewis Music Library. Topics include: ...
Oral history interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Professor Emeritus of Media Arts and Sciences at MIT, founding member of the MIT Media Lab, and computer music pioneer and composer. Interviewed by Forrest Larson and Christopher Ariza, MIT Video Productions studio. Topics ...
MIT students perform the Piano Trio No. 1 in E flat Major composed by Ludwig Beethoven. Bravo to flutist Vivian Liu, cellist Sae Jang (cello heaven), and pianist Yimin Chen. And thanks to their coach Jean Rife. Four movements: Allegro, Adagio Cantabile, Scherzo, and Presto. Killian ...
Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra conductor Prof. Neal Hampton (MUS) will lead the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra with Assistant Conductor Nicholas Alexander Brown '10. Wellesley College on October 17 Brandeis College on October 18
Nicholas Alexander Brown conducts the Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra in Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, IV. Adagio-Allegro molto e vivace. October 17, 2009, Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, USA.
MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Joseph Silverstein, violin Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, December 4, 1966 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Allegro, ma non troppo Jump to: II. Larghetto Jump to: III. Rondo
Beethoven, Concerto No. 3 in c minor, op. 37 MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) Frances Steiner, guest conductor Theodore Lettvin, piano Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, October 25, 1980 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Allegro con brio Jump to: II. ...
MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, April 19, 1971 CD available at the Lewis Music Library Jump to: I. Allegro. Jump to: II. Adagio un poco mosso Jump to: III. Rondo-Allegro
Beethoven, Egmont Overture MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO) David Epstein, conductor Recorded live at Kresge Auditorium, March 11, 1989 CD available at the Lewis Music Library