Student Music Concert: MIT Libraries

Students to Perform Violin Music in Music Library
Friday, 11 April 2003, 11:30am to 12:30pm

MIT Libraries, Lewis Music Library, 14E-109
Contact: Peter Munstedt, pmunsted@mit.edu, 617.253.5636

The Lewis Music Library (14E-109) will host a chamber music concert featuring MIT students on Friday, April 11, 2003 from 11:30am to 12:30pm. Music will include string and piano music including lesser-known gems by such composers as Boulanger, Schumann, Ysaye, Villa-Lobos, and Kreisler. Several of MIT's finest student musicians will perform in the concert, which has been organized by Architecture and Music major David Foxe, '03.

The concert will feature music from a donation to the library of 2,680 violin pieces given by Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning. Her late husband Stephen Prokopoff, who was a museum director as well as a fine violinist, assembled this extensive collection from various countries over many years. His collection includes music from the 18th century on, with a special emphasis on the 20th century. Dorothea and Bradford '49 Endicott provided a generous donation that will enable the library to catalog and bind this music so that it can be circulated.

Marcus Thompson, Professor of Music and Director of the MIT Chamber Music Society, called the Prokopoff collection "potentially one of the most significant in the Boston area. Once inventoried and cataloged, this will be a valuable resource for teachers, recitalists, historians and collectors alike. That value can only grow as artists explore the depths and bring to the surface, through live performances and recordings, the jewels they find."

Sponsored by the MIT Libraries and the Music and Theater Arts Section, this concert is free and open to the public.

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