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Facing the Music: Recreating Performances from the Past
Teresa Neff, Lecturer, Music
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Museums are mostly about seeing and sometimes touching the exhibit. Music, however, is different. Music is about listening and if the topic is musical performances of the past, then how can we experience this in a museum or any other setting? Can the participant (rather than just the curator) manipulate elements of a performance? Can the participant be a part of the performance?
This IAP class will explore using an interactive historical performance application designed to recreate the Handel and Haydn Society’s 1815 performance of Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus. This class will also brainstorm additional uses for this type of application, both in a museum setting and on the web.
The only records of this 1815 performance are written; i.e., scores, newspaper reviews, and commentaries. By creating an interactive installation, the exhibit visitor will be able to listen to history. This, when combined with an examples of the Hallelujah Chorus sung in the 20th and 21st centuries, will highlight in an audible way, the changes in performance practice from the 19th century to today.
Activity Leader and Contact person: Teresa Neff, MTA
Other instructors:
Gary Van Zante, MIT Museum
Justin Casinghino, MTA
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Teresa Neff, tneff@mit.edu
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Jan/08 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Bring laptop or ipad to each class |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Bring laptop or ipad to each class |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Bring laptop or ipad to each class |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | TBA, Bring laptop or ipad to each class |
This IAP class will explore using an interactive historical performance application designed to recreate the Handel and Haydn Society¿s 1815 performance of Handel¿s Hallelujah Chorus. This class will also brainstorm additional uses for this type of application, both in a museum setting and on the web.
Teresa Neff - Lecturer, Music
IAP - Movement, Relaxation, and Concentration Skills for Performers
Jean Rife, Lecturer in Music
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 12 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Class on Movement, Relaxation, and Concentration Skills for Performers.
Will utilize various techniques including yoga techniques to enhance movement, relaxation and concentration skills for performers. Yoga mats may be provided.
This is a class for performers (mostly theatre and music, but could include public speaking) Instructor is a performer herself, and has been deeply influenced by several practices including Alexander Technique, The Taubman Method for Piano, Vision Therapy, breathing practices, and especially yoga. She is a certified yoga instructor and teach a class called Yoga for Musicians at the Longy School. At MIT, she teaches chamber music and lead wind sectionals for the orchestra.
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Jean Rife, 617 253-4964, jeanrife@mit.edu
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Jan/13 | Tue | 12:00PM-04:00PM | TBA |
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Jan/14 | Wed | 12:00PM-04:00PM | TBA |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 12:00PM-04:00PM | TBA |
Will utilize various techniques including yoga techniques to enhance movement, relaxation and concentration skills for performers. Yoga mats may be provided.
Jean Rife - Lecturer in Music
MIT FLUTE ENSEMBLE
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, Lecturer
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/31
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: Intermediate to advanced performance level, pref. w/ensemble
This course provides an opportunity for flutists to improve their instrumental skills in a traditional, large flute ensemble configuration, while learning and performing interesting music in a wide range of musical styles from the 16th -21st centuries. Bass flute, alto flutes and piccolos will be made available for students to play. The ensemble may also divide into smaller groupings.
Prereq: Intermediate to advanced performance level, preferably with some previous experience playing in musical ensembles.
Enrollment: maximum 15 students, by audition or permission of instructor
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, suellen@mit.edu
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Jan/05 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/08 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/12 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/15 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/22 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/26 | Mon | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
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Jan/29 | Thu | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 4-152 |
This course provides an opportunity for flutists to improve their instrumental skills in a traditional, large flute ensemble configuration, while learning and performing interesting music in a wide range of musical styles from the 16th -21st centuries. Bass flute, alto flutes and piccolos will be made available for students to play. The ensemble may also divide into smaller groupings.
Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin - Lecturer
SMALL INSTRUMENTS - Musical Instrument Building and Performance
Pawel Romanczuk, Instructor
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 12/24
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
SMALL INSTRUMENTS - Musical Instrument Building and Performance
Polish composer and instrument builder Pawel Romanczuk started Małe Instrumenty ("Small Instruments") in 2006. He explores new sounds using a wide array of small instruments - found, rebuilt from spare parts, or designed from scratch - from toy pianos to homemade child-sized cellos. Inspired by the soundtracks to old Polish animated films, the instruments used in the group’s sonic experiments feature an ever-expanding array of instruments, children’s toys, and strange musical inventions. Małe Instrumenty’s music reveals the unique colors of sound, from the beautiful to the surprising to the insightful. For more information visit maleinstrumenty.pl
Romanczuk’s one-week residency at MIT involves a daily 3-hour workshop in instrument building and composition for MIT community and students, culminating in a public concert at the MIT Museum on Friday, January 9. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own instruments, develop techniques to play them, and create an ensemble for live performance.
Activity leader: Pawel Romanczuk
Contact Person: Evan Ziporyn
Sponsor(s): Music and Theater Arts
Contact: Evan Ziporyn, 10-283, 2-2302, zipo@mit.edu
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Jan/05 | Mon | 02:00PM-05:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), workshop |
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Jan/06 | Tue | 02:00PM-05:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), workshop |
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Jan/07 | Wed | 02:00PM-05:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), workshop |
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Jan/08 | Thu | 02:00PM-05:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), workshop |
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Jan/09 | Fri | 02:00PM-08:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), workshop |
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Jan/09 | Fri | 05:00PM-08:00PM | N52-199 (MIT Museum), Concert |
These will be five 3-hour workshops in instrument building and composition for MIT community and students, culminating in a public concert at the MIT Museum on Friday, January 9. Participants will have the opportunity to create their own instruments, develop techniques to play them, and create an ensemble for live performance.
Pawel Romanczuk - Instructor
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