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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 2pm-5:30pm M-F with valid MIT Student ID.
  • No phone reservations!
  • One ticket/MIT student

Past excursions

Current Offerings

  • SOLD OUT--Boston Philharmonic--Sunday, Nov 22, 3pm. Sanders Theater (45 Quincy Street, Cambridge). All Wagner Program. (2/Student ID)

    Pre-concert talk at 1:45pm. Benjamin Zander, conductor, with Linda Watson, soprano. "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"--Prelude to Act 1; "Tristan und Isolde"--Prelude and Liebestod; "Die Götterdämmerung" ("Dawn," "Siegfried's Rhine Journey," "Siegfried's Death," "Siegfried's Funeral March," "Brünnhilde's Immolation.")

  • Boston Chamber Music Society--Sunday, Nov 22, 7:30pm. Sanders Theater (45 Quincy Street, Cambridge). (2/Student ID)

    Mendelssohn's Piano Quartet in F minor, Op. 2; Penderecki's Sextet (2000); Brahms' Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40.
    Michael Norsworthy, clarinet; William Purvis, French horn; Jonathan Crow, violin; Marcus Thompson, viola; Wilhelmina Smith, cello; Mihae Lee, piano


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