Tessa Lark, at once a widely praised violinist and acclaimed Appalachian fiddler, is more than a performer: she’s a convener of adventurous, up-for-anything collaborators. For this concert, she’s assembled an accomplished trio that spans the generations, bringing together artists who span, blend, and play with genres.

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Tessa Lark, Joshua Roman, Edgar Meyer

Harvard University

Post-post-modern diva Meow Meow has hypnotized, inspired, and terrified audiences globally with unique creations and sold-out performances from New York’s Lincoln Center to Berlin’s Bar Jeder Vernunft to London’s West End to the Sydney Opera House. 

An Evening with Meow Meow 

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels follows the misadventures of two con-artists: Freddy Benson and Lawrence Jameson. Freddy is just one more hardscrabble huckster trying to make a (dis)honest living – that is, until he meets Lawrence, a high-society swindler whose polish and connections have landed him a glamorous gig on the French Riviera.

When Lawrence invites Freddy to team up, it seems like the two have finally found the perfect con – until they realize that their egos are the only thing more massive than their earnings. Friction turns to an outright feud when the perfect target arrives in town – Christine, an heiress who is just as beautiful as she is gullible. Who will be the first to steal Christine’s heart and, more importantly, her wallet? Grab a sunhat and a cold drink for a musical that will keep you grinning and guessing from start to finish.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

Boston Conservatory at Berklee Theater Division Faculty Katya Stanislavskaya(Opens in a new window) presents an evening of original musical theater songs. Featuring performances by students and faculty, the subjects span from immigration to female empowerment to dating while at a retirement home.

Song Diary: The Songs of Katya Stanislavskaya

Oliver Colvin Recital Hall

Podcast link: https://youtu.be/4hagYvrYbuM

The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

MIT's Black Theater Guild is hosting a showcase of student-created work from artists across the Institute and Harvard. We'll be displaying art from a variety of media, spanning film, fashion, photography and theater. The event will begin at 6:30pm with a reception featuring a photo exhibition, live DJ set and a musical performance, after which we'll view original short films and a play in the theater.

young Black voices

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Directed by master Senegalese drummer Lamine Touré, Rambax MIT is an ensemble dedicated to learning the art of sabar, a vibrant drum and dance tradition of the Wolof people of Senegal, West Africa. Rambax is open to MIT students, faculty, staff and alumni. New members are accepted in the fall and spring semesters. Students must pre-register for 21M.460 and attend auditions. For further information, contact: Patty Tang (Faculty Advisor to Rambax) at pjtang@mit.edu.

Rambax MIT Spring Show

Kendall/MIT Open Space

Immerse yourself in the soul-stirring melodies of Carnatic music! Join us for an enchanting evening as our talented student ensemble takes you on a journey through the rich traditions of South Indian classical music. Experience the intricate rhythms, mesmerizing ragas, and breathtaking harmonies that define this ancient art form. Don't miss this captivating performance that celebrates the beauty and depth of Carnatic music!

Carnatic Ensemble

FaMLE, the MIT Laptop Ensemble, is a forum for the exploration of emerging digital musical practices, with a particular focus on collaborative music performance. We use a variety of software and hardware instruments to learn about current performance techniques, and ensemble members have the opportunity to create new compositions and instruments to explore their personal musical interests. Open to all members of the MIT community, FaMLE offers a practice-based vision of the future of digital musicianship.

FaMLE presents "FREQ Out: Impressions from the Voxel Lab"

Embark on a musical journey with Frank Maza(Opens in a new window), a singer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, as he seamlessly blends his roots with cutting-edge sounds, creating a unique fusion where flamenco meets contemporary influences from artists like Billie Eilish, Bill Evans, and Anderson .Paak in a set of original songs.

Rumba by Frank Maza

Academy Award winning composer Rachel Portman’s “The Little Prince”, based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit Prince, is an imaginative and melodic setting of the unlikely bond of a Little Prince from a neighboring Asteroid and a Pilot whose plane has crash-landed in the desert. The opera highlights in a fantastical way what the true meaning of life is by introducing a plethora of characters whose vices disappoint the young Prince. Power, vanity, addiction, workaholism – they all distract from seeing truly with one’s heart, not one’s eyes. An opera for all ages, the lessons of love, loss, laughter, and healing through letting go are embraced through a sonorous score and with vivid characters who aid both the Prince and the Pilot in discovering the profound truth in friendship and love.

Spring Production | The Little Prince

Collage New Music performs recent works by Peter Child. The program includes two chamber works premiered in the last two years: Turning Point, commissioned to celebrate Collage’s 50th anniversary, and Six Dances of Death, reimagined compositions by Henry VIII inspired by woodcuts by Holbein the Younger. At the center of the program is the premiere of a new song cycle for soprano and piano, A Golden Apple, which sets recent works by six women poets that explore themes of intimacy and loss. We present this concert on the occasion of Peter Child’s retirement from MIT after 37 years of teaching. Please join us for a post-concert reception celebrating Peter's years of service to MIT Music.

New Music by Peter Child: Celebrating 37 Years at MIT

Boston premieres of works for multiple clarinets by three seminal American composers, Terry Riley, Philip Glass, and Louis B. Hardin (aka Moondog). Plus Ziporyn’s own multi-clarinet arrangements from his 2022 album Pop Channel. Terry Riley’s Ki (2023) was written especially for Ziporyn, while Philip Glass Best Out of Three (1968), had been unperformed for over 50 years until Ziporyn realized it from manuscripts found in the composer’s archive. 

Evan Ziporyn solo: Moondog, Riley, Glass

Longy’s premiere new music group, Ensemble Uncaged is dedicated to performing music by established composers as well as emerging and underrepresented voices, expressing multiple perspectives. We honor the familiar, invite the unknown, and challenge the conceptual limits of concert music in the 21st century.

Ensemble Uncaged | Of Memory and Minutiae | Andy Kozar and Rachel Elliott, Directors

Longy School of Music of Bard College

The MIT Music & Theater Arts Composer Forum is a series of public presentations by composers from inside and outside of MIT. Hosted in the Lewis Music Library, the MTA Composer Forum Series gives the MIT Community an opportunity to engage with leading voices in every field of Composition. Past presenters include John Harbison, Julia Wolfe, Terry Riley, Don Byron, and others.

Composer Forum: Trevor Weston

Kris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz (in New York) on a given night.”Davis has released 23 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey, Julian Lage and Esperanza Spalding.  She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021.  Her latest release, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard, was voted best album of 2023 by NPR, Pop Matters, and Downbeat among others.

Emerson/Harris Masterclass: Kris Davis

Praised for her “thrilling blend of fury and finesse” (San Antonio Express-News) and her “winning combination of passion, imagination, and integrity” (New York Concert Review), pianist YOUNG-AH TAK enjoys a remarkable career that has taken her throughout the United States, Canada, Austria, Germany, Italy, Korea, and Japan.

Emerson/Harris Masterclass: Young-Ah Tak

Come see the movie premiere! “We Are The Forest” tells the story of the MIT musicians who travelled to the Brazilian Amazon seeking cultural and scientific exchange. Indigenous musicians and activists share their traditional ecological knowledge. This documentary film features performances by Djuena Tikuna, Luciana Souza, Anat Cohen, and Evan Ziporyn, with music by Antônio Carlos Jobim. Fred Harris conducts the MIT Festival Jazz and MIT Wind Ensemble, Laura Grill Jaye conducts the MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

We Are the Forest Film Premiere

Liebesbotschaft means “Message of Love”, which is a perfect description of Franz Schubert’s music. There are songs of nature, songs of longing and loss, songs of death and spirits, songs of love and hope…all Liebesbotschaften from the composer who brought about the Romantic Period in music. Schubert composed more than six hundred songs as well as seven complete symphonies, several operas, incidental music, and a huge body of piano and chamber music before early death at the age of 31.

Liebesbotschaft: Songs of Franz Schubert | Songs of Love and Loss

All Longy students present full recitals as part of their education and ongoing evolution as artists. They are charged with thinking critically about what stories they tell, whose voices to amplify, and who’s in the room for their event while also considering how to use performance spaces in innovative ways and how to truly engage audiences and create interactive music experiences.

Christiana Goslin | Unwinding | Graduating Student Recital

A symphony of sounds and sine waves. Echoes of dreams lost and other planets, filtered and modified. Voltage under control. Join us to melt into beeps and boops, with ambient, techno, electropop and more. Meet your lover in a cyborg telenovela and fall from a tethered cloud, or get beaten by intense bass. Have you ever wanted to peer into the world of wires and chips and hear it whisper or scream back? Come for a smorgasbord of sound that will transform Killian Hall into an electronic music haven on November 30.

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