MIT Office of the Arts 
(Items not printed in Tech Talk November 20, 2002)
A recent collaboration between internationally renowned choreographer and MIT alumnus Gus Solomons Jr and MIT's new Dance Theater Ensemble will be featured on WGBH-TV's "Greater Boston Arts" on Wednesday, Nov. 27 at 8:30 p.m. (Channel 2). The environmental work, set to an original musical score composed and performed by Assistant Professor of Music Brian Robison, was originally performed last September in the Rotch Architecture Library. See http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/bostonarts/ for more information and a schedule for repeat airings. A variation of "Crowd." will be performed by DTE at their fall concert on Dec. 5, 6 and 7, 2002 in Kresge Little Theater.
Michael Hawley of the Media Lab, co-winner of first prize at the 2002 International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, will present a special solo concert of rare pianistic treasures by Bach, Schubert, Chopin, Bernstein, Gershwin, Rachmaninoff and others on Sunday, Dec. 1 at 4 p.m. at Jordan Hall (290 Huntington Ave.). Tickets: $10, $5 students. All proceeds to be donated to children's educational charities. Box Office: 617/536-2412.
MIT alumna Monica Y. Gomi (SB Theater Arts, 1996) is earning accolades for her performance in Company One's production of "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992" (Boston Center for the Arts through November 23). Gomi also directs the multi-racial collaborative version of Anna Deavere Smith's one-woman documentary-theater response to the riots following the Rodney King verdict. "Monica Y. Gomi stands out in the ensemble," wrote Boston Globe critic Ryan McKittrick, "especially when she plays an anonymous member of the jury that delivered the verdict in the trial of the policemen who beat Rodney King."