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Student Excursions

Established in 1994, the Performing Arts Excursion Series is a program funded by the Council for the Arts at MIT to provide opportunities for students to attend some of the Boston area's finest music, theater and dance events at no or reduced cost. Each year, a limited number of free tickets are provided to productions ranging from the traditional and mainstream to the experimental and avant-garde.

  • Tickets may be picked up at the Office of the Arts E15-205 from 10am-4pm M-F with valid MIT Student ID.
  • No phone reservations!
  • One ticket/MIT student

Past excursions

Current Offerings

  • SOLD OUT--Intermezzo Opera: A Last Goodbye--Friday, May 16 or Saturday, May 17, 8pm. Massachusetts College of Art and Design (921 Huntington Ave, Boston).

    Intermezzo Opera presents an opera in one act composed by MIT Lecturer Charles Shadle, libretto by MIT Senior Lecturer Michael Ouellette. Also, Boston premiere of Satie's Socrate. Cast: Ray Bauwens, Jason McStoots, Gale Fuller and John Whittlesey. Instrumentalists: James Busby, piano and music director; Peter Stickel, violin; Jonathan Bumstead, cello. Directed by Andrew Ryker. Design and lighting by William Fregosi. Pre-performance lecture by Shadle at 7:15pm.

  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP)--Friday, May 23, 8pm. Armenia Resounding: a Tribute to composer Alan Hovhaness. Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory.

    Gil Rose, conductor. Alan Hovhaness (Exile Symphony and Three American Rhapsodies); Vache Sharafran's Symphony No. 2; Tigran Mansurians (Three Arias for violist Kim Kashkashian). Composers Notes hosted by Composer-in-Residence Lisa Bielawa at 7pm.

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