Interviewees | Music at MIT Oral History Collection

Index of interviewees

Name	MIT Affiliation	Music/Professional Work	Interview Dates
Dante Anzolini	MIT Associate Professor of Music, 1998-2006; conductor, MIT Symphony	Conductor of orchestras in the United States, Latin America, and Europe	03/28/2005 11/02/2005 03/21/2006 11/19/2007
Jeanne Bamberger	MIT Professor of Music, 1971-2005	Pianist, Music Theorist	05/27/2005 06/07/2005
John Bavicchi	MIT student, Business and Engineering, 1940-1942	Composer, conductor; Professor of Music, Berklee College of Music	06/30/2006 09/01/2006
Leo Beranek	MIT Associate Professor of Communications Engineering, 1947-1958	Concert hall acoustical design consultant; partner in BBN Inc.	09/30/2008 10/09/2008
Linda Solow Blotner	MIT Music Librarian, 1972-1984	Head, Music Library, Hartt School of Music 1987-2007	05/17/2010
David Bondelevitch	MIT B.S. Film/Video Production, 1985; trumpet player	Assistant Professor at University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television; film music & dialog editor and mixing engineer	05/03/2003
Claude Brenner	MIT B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, 1947; MIT M.S.,1948; sang in the MIT Glee Club and the MIT Logarhythms	President, Commonwealth Energy Group Ltd.; active in Council for the Arts at MIT	11/21/2008 05/01/2009
Adrian Childs	MIT B.S. Mathematics and Music, 1994; played in the MIT Concert Band, Chamber Music Society; student composer	Composer; Assistant Professor of Music, University of Georgia	09/13/2000
Charles Yardley Chittick	MIT B.S. Business and Engineering (Course XV), 1922; MIT Mandolin Club	Patent attorney	01/11/2007
John Corley	Founding director and conductor of the MIT Concert Band, 1949-1999	Conductor, trumpet player	08/19/1999 09/03/1999 12/10/1999
Cherry Emerson	MIT M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1941	Chemical engineer, amateur pianist; philanthropist for music at MIT	11/28/2000 11/30/2000
Stephen Erdely	MIT Professor of Music, 1973-1991	Ethnomusicologist, concert violinist	03/24/1999 08/04/1999
Sara Emerson Farwell	Daughter of Arthur Farwell, MIT B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1893	Actress; theater voice teacher; daughter of the distinguished composer Arthur Farwell, 1872-1952	06/14/2007
David Foxe	MIT B.S. Architecture and Music, 2003; M.S. Architecture, 2006	Architect and composer	08/08/2003
William Grossman	MIT S.B. 1969 and M.S. 1971 in Computer Science; active in many MIT performing groups	Conductor, arranger, editor, and rehearsal pianist for Broadway theater productions in New York	05/03/2003
Arnold Judson	MIT B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1947; MIT M.S. Organizational Behavior, 1948; pianist; active in MIT student performing groups	Business management consultant; pianist; composer	12/21/2007 04/25/2008
Samuel Jay Keyser	MIT Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy; played in MIT Concert Jazz Band	Linguist, trombonist in area jazz bands	09/22/2010 12/02/2010 12/17/2010
Lionel Kinney	MIT B.S. Civil Engineering, 1953; active in student performing groups	Engineer with Caterpiller, Inc; philanthropist for music at MIT	06/05/2008 06/06/2008
Karl Kornacker	MIT B.S. Physics, 1958; MIT Ph.D. Biology, 1962; cellist; played in MITSO	Professor at Ohio State University, Division of Sensory Biophysics; semi-professional cellist	07/11/2002 07/11/2002
Everett Longstreth	Director of MIT Concert Jazz Band, 1968-1995	Band leader, trumpet player, arranger	03/30/2011
Rajesh Mehta	MIT B.S. Electrical Engineering and Humanities, 1986	Trumpet player	03/27/2001
Richard Orr	MIT B.S., 1962; MIT M.S., 1963; MIT Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1973; played in Festival Jazz Ensemble	Electrical engineer, jazz trombonist, composer	05/03/2003
Herb Pomeroy	Director of MIT Jazz Bands, 1963-1985; founder of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble	Jazz trumpeter and band leader; composer, arranger; Professor at Berklee College College of Music 1955-1995	12/14/1999 04/05/2000 04/26/2000
Brian Robison	MIT Assistant Professor of Music, 2002-2006	Composer	07/02/2007 08/17/2007
Jamshied Sharifi	Directed the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, 1985-1992; MIT B.S. Humanities, 1983	Composer, keyboard player, producer, arranger	03/27/2012
Robert Sprich	MIT B.S. Humanities, 1960; Music Library student assistant	Professor of English Emeritus, Bentley College	05/16/2002
Barry Vercoe	MIT Professor Emeritus of Music; MIT Professor of Media Arts and Sciences	Computer music engineer, composer, conductor	08/09/2011 04/24/2012
Claudia Von Canon	MIT Lecturer in Music, 1974-1991	Pianist, harpsichordist, singer, novelist	10/03/2001 10/09/2001
Duscha Weisskopf	MIT Music Librarian, 1949-1952	Historian, amateur singer	05/29/2009