Enjoy performances presented by MIT Music and Theater Arts and the Center for Art, Science & Technology broadcast online. Concerts broadcasts are on weekends on the Arts at MIT Facebook and Twitter accounts. During the academic year, broadcasts are on Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm and Sundays at 2pm. Check back weekly as we add new concert information on this page.
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Highlight Rambax MIT and Gamelan Galak Tika
July 9-10 / Hear and watch the Rambax Spring 2018 concert. Listen to an audio recording of “Ameriki” from Gamelan Spring 2018.
Program includes:
Concert: Rambax Spring 2018 concert
Audio recording: “Ameriki” from Gamelan Spring 2018
Concert link: Rambax Spring 2018 concert
Audio recording: “Ameriki” from Gamelan Spring 2018
Highlighting the MIT Symphony Orchestra
June 11-12 / Hear and watch the 2019 MIT Symphony Orchestra concert featuring Matthew Roitstein, flute, and David Deveau, piano. Listen to an audio recording of the MIT Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 performance of Massenet, Strauss, and Mendelssohn (feat. David Deveau)
Program includes:
Concert: MIT Symphony Orchestra Featuring Soloists Matthew Roitstein and David Deveau
Audio recording: MIT Symphony Orchestra’s 2009 performance of Massenet, Strauss, and Mendelssohn (feat. David Deveau)
Engineered Expression: digital instruments in performance
May 7- 8 / Creating and performing with new digital and electronic instruments has always been an important part of electronic and computer music. This concert and workshop features musicians for whom this is a central part of their practice. Whether it takes the form of a physical interface, motion sensor, or software system, these new instruments are shaped by the artistic and aesthetic goals of the performer. The concert on Friday, May 7 presents performances by five musicians, and a 3-hour workshop on Saturday, May 8, features conversations with the performers and in-depth explorations of their instruments. This event is presented in association with Course 21M.370 Digital Instrument Design and supported by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology Cross Disciplinary Class Development Fund.
Highlighting the MIT Symphony Orchestra
April 30-May 1 / Join us for the live, virtual performance of the MIT Symphony Orchestra: Re-Awaken. Listen to an audio recording of the MIT Symphony Orchestra’s 2010 concert Dvorak, Shadle and Featuring Aardvark Jazz Orchestra.
Program includes:
Concert: Bach, Cononcini, Palestrina, Purcell, Shadle, Schütz.
Audio recording: Dvorak, Shadle and Featuring Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
Concert link: MIT Symphony Orchestra: Re-Awaken (Live)
Audio recording link: Dvorak, Shadle and Featuring Aardvark Jazz Orchestra
Highlighting the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
April 2-3 / Hear and watch MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble’s 2018 concert En Pie De Lucha. Listen to an audio recording of the Homegrown Jazz: Celebrating Music with MIT Roots in 2018
Program includes:
Concert: En Pie De Lucha
Audio recording: Homegrown Jazz: Celebrating Music with MIT Roots
Concert link: En Pie De Lucha
Audio recording link: Homegrown Jazz: Celebrating Music with MIT Roots
Highlighting the MIT Media Lab, MIT Symphony Orchestra, and the Kronos Quartet
March 5-6 / Hear and watch Tod Machover’s newly revised version of A Toronto Symphony – his very first City Symphony – that was scheduled for a March 13 US premiere at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. COVID-19 nixed that plan, but not before the students of MITSO, led by Evan Ziporyn, were able to record the piece in the empty concert hall. Don’t miss this vivid performance with stunning visuals by Peter Torpey. And, listen to a recording of Tod Machover – Gammified.
Program includes:
Concert: A Toronto Symphony by Tod Machover, performed by the MIT Symphony Orchestra
Audio recording: Tod Machover – Gammified
Concert link: A Toronto Symphony by Tod Machover, performed by the MIT Symphony Orchestra
Audio recording link: Tod Machover – Gammified
Highlighting Gamelan Galak Tika and Rambax
February 5-6 / Hear and watch the 2017 concert MIT World Music Day featuring Gamelan Galak Tika and Rambax. Listen to an audio recording of the 2014 MIT Symphony Orchestra concert Rouse, Ziporyn, Rimsky-Korsakov featuring Gamelan Galak Tika.
Program includes:
Concert: MIT World Music Day featuring Gamelan Galak Tika and Rambax
Audio recording: Rouse, Ziporyn, Rimsky-Korsakov featuring Gamelan Galak Tika
Concert link: MIT World Music Day featuring Gamelan Galak Tika and Rambax
Audio recording link: Rouse, Ziporyn, Rimsky-Korsakov featuring Gamelan Galak Tika
Highlighting the MIT Chamber Chorus and MIT Symphony Orchestra
January 8-9 / Hear and watch the 2018 MIT Chamber Chorus concert Bits’ and Bobs. Listen to an audio recording of the 2011 concert MIT Symphony Orchestra concert The Planets.
Bits’ and Bobs program:
British choral music of the 20th century
Britten
Finzi
Quilter
Vaughan
Williams
Program includes:
Concert: Bits’ and Bobs
Audio recording: The Planets
Highlighting the MIT Wind Ensemble and MIT Symphony Orchestra
December 4-5 / Join us for the live, virtual performance of the MIT Wind Ensemble’s 6th Annual PRISM Concert. Listen to an audio recording of the 2016 concert MIT Symphony Orchestra presents Holiday Pops 2016.
Program includes:
Concert: MIT Wind Ensemble’s 6th Annual PRISM Concert
Audio recording: MIT Symphony Orchestra presents Holiday Pops
Concert link: MIT Wind Ensemble’s 6th Annual PRISM Concert (Live)
Audio recording link: MIT Symphony Orchestra presents Holiday Pops 2016
Highlighting the MIT Wind Ensemble, MIT Concert Choir, and MIT Chamber Chorus
November 6-7 / Hear and watch the 2018 MIT Wind Ensemble concert Waking Winds: Innovative Music From MIT Wind Ensemble. Hear the MIT Concert Choir and MIT Chamber Chorus perform Michael (1949) and Sonja Koerner Music Composition Professor, Section Head for Music & Theater Arts Keeril Makan’s Infinite Corridor as part of the concert Song of Democracy in 2014.
Waking Winds: Innovative Music From MIT Wind Ensemble program: Introduction et variations sur une ronde populaire (1936) Gabriel Pierne (1863-1937)
Insurgence (2018 for percussion septet Kathryn Salfelder (b. 1987)
Sleep (1936) for saxophone ensemble Eric Whitacre (1970)
Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Ensemble (2013) Don Byron (b. 1958)
Awakening (2012) in recognition of the Arab Spring Jamshied Sharifi (1960)
Program includes:
Concert: Waking Winds: Innovative Music From MIT Wind Ensemble
Audio recording: Keeril Makan’s Infinite Corridor as part of the concert Song of Democracy featuring the MIT Concert Choir and the MIT Chamber Chorus
Highlighting the MIT Concert Choir and MIT Symphony Orchestra
October 2-3 / Hear and watch Dvorak’s colorful cantata, The Spectre’s Bride, performed by the MIT Concert Choir in 2018, and hear the MIT Symphony Orchestra’s 2012 performance of the Finale from Dvorak’s 9th Symphony from the concert Americana: Bernstein, Dvorak, Ives.
Program includes:
Concert: MIT Concert Choir: The Spectre’s Bride
Audio recording: Finale from Dvorak’s 9th Symphony
Highlighting the MIT Symphony Orchestra
September 4-5 / Hear and watch the 2017 MITSO concert Sibelius and Brahms featuring music by Jean Sibelius and Johannes Brahms. Listen to an audio recording of Barber, Respighi, and Sibelius as part of MITSO’s 2007 concert with special guest John Miller ’64, Principal Bassoon, Minnesota Orchestra.
Program includes:
Concert: MITSO: Sibelius: Symphony No. 6 in D minor, Opus 104, Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Opus 68
Audio recording: Barber, Respighi, and Sibelius
Highlighting Institute Professor John Harbison
Hear and watch select concerts featuring work by Institute Professor John Harbison and performances by the MIT Symphony Orchestra, MIT Jazz Ensemble, and MIT Wind Ensemble.
Program includes:
John Harbison Celebration Concert
All For You – John Harbison’s 80th Birthday Jazz Party
MIT Music in HD including A Rhumba for Rafael Reif by Harbison
MITSO: The Night Before
MIT Symphony Orchestra’s tribute to the art of film music from classic Hollywood soundtracks to new works.
Program includes:
John Williams: “Devil’s Dance” from The Witches of Eastwick
Harry Manfredini: Friday the 13th Suite
Angelo Badalamenti: Theme to Twin Peaks
Don Byron: Three Pieces from the Saul Bass Project, World Premiere
The July 11 broadcast features the world premiere of renowned composer and clarinetist Don Byron’s Three Pieces from the Saul Bass Project, commissioned by MIT, which will accompany classic film noir title sequences by the legendary Saul Bass (Something Wild (1961), The Shrike (1955), and Walk On the Wild Side (1962). The program also includes music by John Williams (“Devil’s Dance” from The Witches of Eastwick), Angelo Badalamenti’s theme to Twin Peaks, and Harry Manfredini’s Friday the 13th Suite.
The performance was originally scheduled, along with the US premiere of Tod Machover’s A Toronto Symphony, for March 13 in MIT’s Kresge Auditorium, but because of COVID-19 the students of MITSO, led by Evan Ziporyn, played in the empty concert hall right before they had to leave campus. Fortunately, we are able to share this recording with you! The work by Tod Machover was presented earlier in our virtual concert series (view it on YouTube).
A Toronto Symphony by Tod Machover, performed by the MIT Symphony Orchestra
Hear and watch Tod Machover’s newly revised version of A Toronto Symphony – his very first City Symphony – that was scheduled for a March 13 US premiere at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. COVID-19 nixed that plan, but not before the students of MITSO, led by Evan Ziporyn, were able to record the piece in the empty concert hall. Don’t miss this vivid performance with stunning visuals by Peter Torpey.
Program includes:
A Toronto Symphony by Tod Machover, performed by the MIT Symphony Orchestra
Concert link:
MIT Student Voices
Hear and watch select concerts highlighting some of our MIT student voices and music.
Program includes:
Comusica
MIT Chamber Chorus: Soli Dei Gloria
MIT Video Game Orchestra – 2019 Fall Concert
This series included, Comusica, a participatory music experience that was unveiled as a centerpiece of the MIT virtual Commencement on May 29, 2020.
Highlighting MIT Laptop Ensemble, MITSO, Concert Choir, Chamber Chorus, MITWE
Hear and watch select concerts from the MIT Laptop Ensemble and performances by the MIT Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Chorus, Concert Choir and the MIT Wind Ensemble.
Program includes:
Spring Virtual Ensembles Concert
FaMLE presents “360 Degrees of Separation”
FaMLE presents Algorave
MIT Student A Capella Groups
Hear and watch select concerts from MIT’s student a capella groups.
Program includes:
MIT Resonance Spring 2019 Concert
Chorallaries 40th Anniversary Concert
MIT Family Weekend A Cappella Concert, 2016
Gamelan Galak Tika
Hear and watch select 2014-19 Gamelan Galak Tika concerts.
Program includes:
2014 concert
2018 concert
2019 concert
Gamelan Galak Tika has been at the forefront of innovative, cross-cultural music for Balinese gamelan since 1993. Led by composer and MIT Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor Evan Ziporyn, Galak Tika has performed groundbreaking music at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, BAM, several Bang on a Can Marathons, Southern Exposure, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and colleges throughout the northeast.
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Earth Week
Hear and watch select 2018-19 MIT concerts celebrating the environment with music from MIT Music and Theater Arts.
Program includes:
Heal! — A Battle Poem for the Climate and Its Defenders
Space for Action: Rebuilding a Sustainable World
MIT & Parley: Prevailing Winds and Whales
Space for Action was a call for all humans to convene, process, and make progress on the existential threat posed by climate change through curated collective experiences at the intersection of art, science, and culture.
Rambax MIT
Hear and watch select 2018-19 concerts by Rambax MIT.
Program includes:
December 7, 2019 concert
May 4, 2019 concert
December 7, 2018 concert
Concert links:
December 7, 2019 concert
May 4, 2019 concert
December 7, 2018 concert
MIT Concert Choir
Hear and watch select 2018-2019 concerts by the MIT Concert Choir.
Program includes:
Celebrating Beethoven’s 250th Birthday
In Full Bloom (Love & Spring!)
“GLORIA”
MIT Symphony Orchestra
Hear and watch select 2018-2019 concerts by the MIT Symphony Orchestra.
Program includes:
Ambient Classical
The Heart is a Bell
John Oliver Memorial Concert
Concert links:
Ambient Classical
The Heart is a Bell
John Oliver Memorial Concert
MIT Wind Ensemble
Hear and watch select 2018-2019 concerts by the MIT Wind Ensemble.
Program includes:
MIT’s Annual Family Weekend Concert: Ingenious Transformations
5th Annual Prism Concert Spectacular
A Resistance, Now
MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble
Hear and watch select 2018-2019 concerts by the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.
Program includes:
All For You – John Harbison’s 80th Birthday Jazz Party
13th Annual Herb Pomeroy Memorial Concert
Homegrown Jazz: Celebrating Music with MIT Roots