music | Teaching Excellence at MIT

Illuminating Passion: 50 Years of Jazz at MIT

4.30K Views0 Comments7 Likes

MIT Music and Theater Arts is celebrating the golden anniversary of its jazz program this spring with an exhibit in the Lewis Music Library, panel discussions with jazz artists and alumni, and a gala concert. MIT's j...

Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music

Teaching Excellence at MIT 11 years ago

4.08K Views0 Comments1 Likes

This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi ‘83. Commissioned by MIT Music and Theater Arts, with funding from the M...

MIT Music in HD!

Teaching Excellence at MIT 11 years ago

3.00K Views0 Comments1 Likes

MIT Music in HD! is an hour-long program featuring a montage of music performances from the MIT150 Convocation: A Rhumba for Rafael Reif composed by Institute Professor John Harbison for President Reif’s Inauguration;...

MIT Experimental Music Studio (ca. 1973)

Teaching Excellence at MIT 11 years ago

2.41K Views0 Comments0 Likes

Interview with Barry Vercoe, MIT Associate Professor of Music and Director of the MIT Experimental Music Studio; Prof. Richard Hoffman of the Oberlin Conservatory of Music offers commentaries. Marcus Thompson (MIT Ass...

Midnight Concert in Lobby 7 (1979)

Teaching Excellence at MIT 11 years ago

2.27K Views0 Comments0 Likes

This beautiful midnight concert of Bach music held in Lobby 7 in December 1979 showcases the musical talents of the MIT community. Presented by the MIT Chamber Players and conducted by Prof. Marcus Aurelius Thompson. ...