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Tech Night at Pops to star David Deveau
--Lynn Heinemann, Office of the Arts
 David Deveau
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Senior Lecturer David Deveau, an internationally acclaimed pianist, will
be the featured soloist for the 110th annual Tech Night at Pops concert
to be held this year on Thursday, June 7, in Boston's Symphony Hall. Pops
leader Keith Lockhart will conduct the 8 p.m. performance, which is sold
out.
Deveau, who has appeared with the Boston Pops on over two dozen occasions since 1976 when he made his debut under the baton of the late Harry Ellis Dickson, will perform Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto. |
Deveau has previously performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, at
the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and in 2004 made his debut solo tour
in China. And what does he think about the recent fracas at the Pops' opening
night? " I'm going to order a pair of boxing gloves and a bullet proof
vest," said Deveau. "Hopefully no one will attack while I am playing."
The Pops will also perform a variety of musical favorites in the style that
has made them America's favorite orchestra.
The Tech Night program will include works by Dvorak, Gershwin, and Bizet,
and a medley of works from stage and screen titled "A Tribute to Oscar
and Tony."
The concert will also include the traditional sing-along version of MIT's
alma mater, "In Praise of MIT."
Prior to the Pops concert, current members and alums of MIT's all-male a cappella
ensemble, the Logarhythms, will serenade graduates and alumni concertgoers
in the lobbies of Symphony Hall.
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