Uncommon | In common The Inauguration of Susan Hockfield, 16th MIT President - Community Events - Arts

The Inaugural week included many performances and exhibitions by faculty and students in the arts at MIT.

In addition to the events listed below, the Inaugural Ceremony featured new works by MIT composers written for the occasion: a prelude by Professor Evan Ziporyn and Artist-in-Residence Lamine Touré, performed by Gamelan Galak Tika and Rambax, MIT's Senegalese drumming ensemble; a choral piece by Institute Professor John Harbison; and fanfares by Professor Peter Child and by Elena Ruehr, Lecturer in Music and Theater Arts.

Nightly, Monday, May 2 — Sunday, May 8
Opening Event: Monday May 2, 7:00 PM Kresge Oval

On Monday, May 2, the Inaugural week featured the opening of White Noise/White Light, an interactive exhibit created by MIT Professor Meejin Yoon and Matthew Reynolds '98 for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Professor Thomas DeFrantz choreographed a piece for the the MIT Dance Theatre Ensemble to be performed with the installation at the opening.

This exhibit was open each evening through Sunday, May 8. The Inaugural Committee was grateful for the generous support from the Council for the Arts for the White Noise/White Light exhibition. For more information about this exhibit, see the Office of the Arts press release.

Thursday, May 5
8:00 PM Kresge Auditorium

The MIT Symphony Orchestra performed Mahler's Symphony No. 6

Saturday, May 7
8:00 pm Kresge Auditorium

The MIT Concert Choir, directed by William Cutter, performed Bach's "Cantata No. 50," Beethoven's "Elegy," and Mozart's "Requiem," with soloists Elisabeth Hon (G), soprano; Elizabeth Smith '05, mezzo soprano; Sudeep Agarwala (G), tenor; and Eduardo Montemayor '07, bass on Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium.

Thursday, May 5 — Sunday, May 8
8:00 pm La Sala de Puerto Rico
2:00 pm Matinee on Sunday

MIT Gilbert & Sullivan Players production.
see http://web.mit.edu/gsp/www/Archive/2005spring_yeomen/

Through Sunday, June 5
Tuesday - Friday, 10:00 am — 5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday, 12:00 pm — 5:00 pm
MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue

Get an insider's view of how MIT is redesigning the way it teaches physics. Technology-enabled active learning (TEAL) merges lectures, hands-on desktop experiments, and cutting-edge visualizations and simulations to create a rich collaborative learning experience. Through stunning visualizations of complex physical phenomena and the associated desktop experiments, this three-phase display follows the progression of the MIT undergrad course, “Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism” (Course 8.02T).

Phase I through Feb 13;
Phase II Feb 16-April 18;
Phase III April 20-June 5.

Admission: $5 for adults, $2 for non-MIT students, seniors, and children 5-18, and free with an MIT ID.
Also free on the 3rd Sunday of each month.

Contact 617-253-4444 or http://web.mit.edu/museum/

Thursday, February 10 — Wednesday, June 15
Weekdays 9:30 am — 5:00 pm, Compton Gallery (Room 10-205)

A collection of unpublished photographs captures the construction process that brought MIT and the world the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center (or MIT Building 32). Through the works of Boston-based Richard Sobol, whose photographs were featured in “Building Stata” (MIT Press, 2004; available at the MIT Museum), visitors will see up close how this spectacular building came together.

Contact http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/compton.html.