Wed., October 10 at 12 noon • Killian Hall (14W-111)

Patrick Battstone, pianist

Pianist Pat Battstone ( of Draper Labs ) will be playing a one hour jazz concert at Killian Hall on Oct 10th as part of MIT’s Artist Behind the Desk series. He will be joined by bassist Jon Dreyer, and together they will be playing a mixture of jazz standards from the Monk and Bill Evans repertoire as well as original compositions.

tel: 617-258-2423
email: pbattstone@gmail.com
web: www.bats-tones.com

Wed., November 7 at 12 noon • Killian Hall (14W-111)

Shiba Nemat-Nasser, Mezzo-soprano
ABD welcomes back Shiba Nemat-Nasser for a performance of Baroque repertoire including works by Erlebach and others.

With guests, Andrus Madsen, harpsichord, and Julia Steinbok, soprano.

Wed., December 5 at 12 noon • Killian Hall (14W-111)

Kurt Winikka, Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist

A returning veteran disappears into a Midwest landscape of night trains, truck stops, and prairie fires. A former baseball star fades into the tattered memories of his dreams. A holy roller faces judgment for a life of hypocrisy. These are the folks who inhabit the songs of Kurt Winikka. Growing up in the Southwest, raising a family in the Midwest, and finding his bearings as a singer/songwriter in New England, Kurt meticulously crafts engaging narratives informed by the breadth of his American experience, and conveys them with precise guitar work and a dulcet voice.
In his teens, at the same time Kurt was playing in a terrible (though extremely loud) garage band, he was opening his ears to a wide range of musical influences from Mahler to Mingus. Ultimately it was songwriters like Harry Chapin who held sway; writers who could weave an engaging narrative into a simple song and provide a deep connection to our human condition. The influence of writers such as Bill Morrissey, Richard Shindell and Guy Clark can be heard in his songwriting.
“Says the Rain” is Winikka’s second CD, co-produced with Lloyd Maines in Jamaica Plain Massachusetts and Austin Texas. A fortuitous meeting at the Kerrville Folk Festival in the Texas Hill Country led to the collaboration between the two. Joining Kurt on the recordings are Lloyd Maines, Pat Manske, Richard Bowden, Joel Guzman, Riley Osbourn, and Terri Hendrix. The collection of eleven original songs and one traditional song will be released in March 2013.

Tue, Dec 18 at 12 noon • MIT Chapel (W15)

CONCERT : Meridian Singers

A survey of early unaccompanied Italian choral music including Landini, Willaert, Gesualdo, and Monteverdi.

Wed., December 19 at noon • Killian Hall (14W-111)

Ruth Levitsky, Music for flute and piano

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