Press Releases
2008
Catalyst Collaborative@MIT
(CC@MIT) presents QED at new Central Square Theater
(June 25, 2008)
Daniel Goodman's Memorial Day
Piano Concert at MIT to Feature "Babar the Elephant"
(May 2, 2008)
MIT
Engineer, Acting, and Hazardous Waste -- all in a Day's Work
for MIT Alumna Helen McCreery
(May 1, 2008)
MIT Brings FEMA trailer project to campus
(April 29, 2008)
Herb Pomeroy
Memorial Concert: Celebrating MIT's Father of Jazz
(April 22, 2008)
Concerto Competition
winner Jennifer Lai '11 performs with MIT Symphony Orchestra
(Announcement, April 14, 2008)
MIT Wind
Ensemble releases world premiere recordings of three mavericks on Albany Records
(Announcement, April 8, 2008)
MIT to hold Edward Cohen Memorial Concert
(April 7, 2008)
'The Mathematics in Music -- a
Concert-Conversation with Elaine Chew'
(April 2, 2008)
Catalyst Collaborative @ MIT (CC@MIT) presents preview
performance of Peter Parnell's play QED
(March 24, 2008)
BSO to premiere Harbison commission
(March 24, 2008)
South African writer, publisher, musician and DJ Ntone Edjabe to visit MIT
(March 10, 2008)
Violist Marcus Thompson to perform at MIT
(March 5, 2008)
Thierry Nlandu, founder and member of
artist-collective Le Groupe Amos to visit MIT
(March 3, 2008)
Alumnus Carlos Prieto returns to MIT
(February 11, 2008)
OPEN AUDITIONS: MIT Symphony Orchestra
(January 22, 2008)
2007
American
Bassoon: MIT Symphony Orchestra performs with guest bassoonist, John Miller, MIT Class of 1964
(November 15, 2007)
Pianist Ivan Ilic
presents US premiere of MIT Assistant Professor Keeril Makan's Afterglow
(November 2, 2007)
CC@MIT -- MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged reading of 'The Water Engine' Dec. 3-4
(October 30, 2007)
Zehetmair String Quartet to perform at MIT Nov. 16
(October 16, 2007)
Brazilian artist
Ana Maria Tavares to visit MIT
(October 11, 2007)
Drag-King Troupe
Nappy Grooves to present Lecture-Demonstration at MIT
(October 1, 2007)
Eye on the Future: MIT Symphony Orchestra Welcomes Adam Boyles
(September 25, 2007)
MIT presents:
7th Annual "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch" October 5-6;
10th Annual Page Hazlegrove Lecture in Glass Art October 11
(September 5, 2007)
Herb Pomeroy,
founder of MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, dies
(News Office, 8/14/2007)
Grammy Award winning musician Don Byron to be MLK Visiting Professor at MIT
(August 2, 2007)
MIT presents jazz artists Kenny
Werner, Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano in world premiere of major wind ensemble composition May 11
(March 30, 2007)
MIT and
Underground Railway Theater, in association with the inaugural Cambridge Science Festival, present
'Einstein's Dreams' April 19-29
(March 19, 2007)
Empire Brass tuba player
Kenneth Amis to appear with MIT Wind Ensemble
(February 23, 2007)
Jazz artist Magali Souriau
to appear at MIT in rare Boston-area appearance
(February 21, 2007)
Adam Boyles appointed director of
MIT Symphony Orchestra
(February 13, 2007)
Interdisciplinary artist/writer Coco Fusco
to visit & speak at MIT
(February 12, 2007
MIT announces visiting musicians for Spring 2007
(January 30, 2007)
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks returns to MIT;
Dramashop stages her 'Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom'
(January 11, 2007)
2006
MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies receives $40K NEA grant (Malpede and Starling residencies funded)
(December 12, 2006)
MIT & Underground Railway
Theater (CC@MIT) present 'On Ego'
(November 2, 2006)
Evan Ziporyn receives
MIT's Kepes Prize
(October 12, 2006)
Japanese artist Noboru Tsubaki named 2006 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at MIT
(October 10, 2006)
Suzan-Lori
Parks selected by MIT to receive $70K McDermott Award for innovation in the arts
(September 19, 2006)
MIT professor
(Evan Ziporyn), alum (Christopher Adler) premiere works at Carnegie Hall
(September 14, 2006)
Violist
Marcus Thompson, top string quartets continues MIT's celebration of Mozart 250th birthday
(September 12, 2006)
MIT presents
7th Annual 'Great Glass Pumpkin Patch' September 29-30
(August 14, 2006)
Nigerian
writer/musician/activist Chris Abani to visit MIT
(August 8, 2006)
MIT's
public art named to "Big Ten"
(July 26, 2006)
New work by
MIT's Thomas DeFrantz chosen for New York Musical Theatre Festival
(July 17, 2006)
MIT
senior Matthew Roitstein to compete in international flute competition
(May 17, 2006)
MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged reading of "Partition" May 15 & 16
(April 4, 2006)
MIT
program to aid hurricane-affected museums
(March 13, 2006)
Broadway
star Darius de Haas to perform/speak at MIT
(March 10, 2006)
Conceptual artist Ann Lislegaard to discuss "Sound,
Light and Video Works" at MIT March 6
(February 7, 2006)
MIT-Underground Railway Theater collaboration presents staged
reading of 'Einstein's Dreams' March 13 & 14
(February 6, 2006)
Grammy-nominated Collage New Music to present free concert
at MIT honoring the late MIT composer Edward Cohen
(January 24, 2006)
2005
Ellen T. Harris receives 2005 Kepes Prize
(November 3, 2005)
MIT's Oct 30 "Bayou Bash" benefit concert to feature top New Orleans musicians
(October 18, 2005)
MIT Professor Marcus Thompson salutes Mozart's 250th birthday
(September 13, 2005)
Charming Hostess: Revolutionary Voices Sing at MIT Sept 16
(September 1, 2005)
MIT presents 5th Annual "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch" September 23-24
(August 30, 2005)
Graffiti artists TATS CRU visit MIT. Free presentation: Sept 20
(August 16, 2005)
Composer/Musician Jewlia Eisenberg to visit MIT. Free presentation Sept 15
(August 8, 2005)
"White Noise/White Light" at MIT May 2-8
(April 14, 2005)
Film director Michel Gondry to speak at MIT April 5
(March 18, 2005)
Tap dance artist Dianne Walker to perform, speak at MIT April 2
(March 18, 2005)
Writer Paul Auster and Clarinetist Don Byron
Appear Together at MIT March 4
(February 7, 2005)
Architect/Engineer Santiago Calatrava Selected by MIT to receive
$70,000 McDermott Award for Innovation in the Arts
(February 2, 2005)
Author/Filmmaker Ruth Ozeki to Visit MIT
(January 19, 2005)
2004
Jazz Artist Kenny Werner to Perform at MIT November 17 and 19
(November 2, 2004)
Origami Master Robert J. Lang to Visit MIT
(October 29, 2004)
Krzysztof Wodiczko Receives Kepes Prize
(October 7, 2004)
Producer/Writer/Director
Angus Gibson to Visit MIT
(September 27, 2004)
Dancer/Choreographer Elizabeth Streb to Speak at MIT
(September 24, 2004)
MIT artist/prof creates luminous sound-scape
at 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece
(August 13, 2004)
MIT presents 4th Annual "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch" Sept 17-18
(August 9, 2004)
Novelist Margaret Atwood to Give Free Talk at MIT April 4
(March 4, 2004)
Poet Robert Creeley and saxophonist Steve Lacy Kick Off New 'Words and Music' series at MIT
(March 1, 2004)
2003
Composer Libby Larsen Honored by MIT Arts Council
(October 15, 2003)
MIT presents 3rd Annual "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch" Oct. 11-12
(September 19, 2003)
Composer, Musician, Activist Peggy Seeger to Appear at MIT
(August 15, 2003)
Theaters Collaborate With MIT on New Cambridge Home
(June 16, 2003)
Chinese Artist Cai Guo-Qiang to Speak at MIT
(March 31, 2003)
Richard Feynman Fest at MIT to Feature Staged Reading of “Q.E.D.,” Discussion
(January 9, 2003)
Senegalese Drummer Lamine Touré to Appear at MIT
(January 8, 2003)
2002
Activist/Actress/Writer Vinie Burrows to Receive McDermott Award from MIT
(October 11, 2002)
'Great Glass Pumpkin Patch' Returns to MIT
(September 16, 2002)
MIT Hosts Sypmosium on "Copenhagen"
(April 17, 2002)
MIT presents American Music Series March 2-May 10, 2002
(February 6, 2002)
2001
MIT Professor John Maeda wins National Design Award from Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt
(December 4, 2001)
MIT Wind Ensemble premieres "Coyote's Dinner"
(October 30, 2001)
MIT Media Lab exhibit examines technology's transformation of portraiture
(October 18, 2001)
Filmmaker Isaac Julien to receive McDermott Award from MIT
(October 17, 2001)
Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir at MIT October 21
(September 14, 2001)
MIT presents Balinese puppeteer Wayan Wija in World Premiere of 'Shadow Bang' October 12-14
(September 10, 2001)
Playwright/director Moises Kaufman to give free talk at MIT--Oct 4
(August 29, 2001)
MIT Announces Visiting Artists for Fall 2001
(August 20, 2001)
MIT "Great Glass Pumpkin Patch" will dazzle the eye, benefit MIT's Glass Lab--Sept 15-16
(August 17, 2001)
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