Music
Posted May 1st, 2013 by Christie Moore
Smithsonian Global Sound is now available to the MIT community. This streaming audio collection of world music provides access to over 42,000 tracks from the Smithsonian Archives and world music archives in Asia and Africa. Coverage includes over 169 countries worldwide, 1,000 genres, 1,400 cultural groups, and 450 different languages.
Shortcut URL: libraries.mit.edu/get/globalsound
(MIT certificates required)
Posted in All news, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted April 26th, 2013 by Christie Moore
Music Librarian Peter Munstedt will give a gallery talk, “Musical Treasures in the MIT Libraries” on Wednesday, May 1 from noon-12:45 pm. The Maihaugen exhibit Noteworthy Connections: Music in the MIT Libraries will be on view until July 2013.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Noon-12:45 pm
Maihaugen Gallery, Bldg. 14N-130
Free and open to the public.
Posted in All news, Events, Exhibits, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted April 23rd, 2013 by Christie Moore
Interested in jazz at MIT? Photographs, recordings, scores, video clips, and other materials from the Lewis Music Library and the Institute Archives and Special Collections will be featured in a special one-day exhibit on Thursday afternoon, 4/25/2013. There will be many items from the Herb Pomeroy Collection in celebration of the 50th anniversary of jazz becoming a part of the MIT curriculum under the leadership of Herb Pomeroy.
Date: Thursday, April 25, 3:00pm-5:00pm
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Free and open to the public.
Posted in All news, Events, Exhibits, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted April 23rd, 2013 by Christie Moore
The 11th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held on Tuesday, April 30th, from noon-1 pm in the Lewis Music Library. MIT students will perform selections by Bach, Saint-Saens, Wieniawski, Kreisler, Tchaikovsky, and Mendelssohn. This annual event honors the collection of over 2,000 violin music scores collected by Stephen Prokopoff and donated to the library in 2001 by Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. Come enjoy some wonderful music in an attractive setting!
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: noon-1 pm
The concert is free and open to the public.
Posted in All news, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted April 2nd, 2013 by Christie Moore
Composer forum series: Forrest Larson, composer, violist and electronic musician.
MIT Lewis Music Library staff member Forrest Larson will discuss his compositions that use “found sounds” from both natural as well as urban landscapes in compositions with acoustic instruments. MIT student Emily Su will perform The Crows Return for flute and recorded sound. Forrest will also discuss Seabird Fantasy, commissioned by the MIT Wind Ensemble.
He has also written works for string quartet, string orchestra, unaccompanied violin, viola and cello. He plays live analog electronic instruments with the group Sonic Sandbox.
Date: Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: 5-6 pm
Reception follows.
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by MIT Music and Theater Arts.
Posted in All news, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted March 18th, 2013 by Heather McCann
Aga Khan Documentation Center presents a film viewing of
Slingshot Hip Hop
Slingshot Hip Hop braids together the stories of young Palestinians living in Gaza, the West Bank and inside Israel as they discover Hip Hop and employ it as a tool to surmount divisions imposed by occupation and poverty. From internal checkpoints and Separation Walls to gender norms and generational differences, this is the story of young people crossing the borders that separate them.
“Documentary Competition” Sundance Film Festival 2008
Top 3 Finalist for the IDFA- “DOC U” Competition, Amsterdam
“Audience Award: Best Documentary“ Films de Femmes, France
“Audience Award: Best Film“ DOX BOX Film Festival, Syria
“Best Director” Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Beirut International Film festival, Lebanon
“Jury Prize” Festival Cinéma et Politique de Tours, Paris, France
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Arabian Sights/Washington DC International Film Festival
“Silver Hanoman Prize” JAFF film festival, Indonesia
“Best Mediterranean Film” Granada Festival Cine del Sur, Spain
“Audience Award: Best Documentary” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Audience Award: Best Film” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Most Anticipated Film” Cairo Refugee Film Festival, Egypt
“Audience Award: Best Film“ Toronto Palestine Film Festival, Canada
“The Festival des Libertés Award” Festival des Libertés festival in Brussels, Belgium
“Aloha Accolade Winner” Honolulu Film Festival, Hawaii
Brown bag lunch event – dessert provided
Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 12:30 (film length 83 minutes)
7-134A (Rotch Library Conference Room)
Please join us!
This special presentation is made possible by the Aga Khan Program Documentation Center @ MIT Libraries
Questions? Contact: scsmith@mit.edu, 617.354.5022
Posted in All news, Art + Architecture + Planning, Events, Humanities, Music
Posted March 7th, 2013 by Christie Moore
Composer forum series: Don Byron will talk about his new Concerto for Clarinet.
Don Byron (Photo: Dave Weiland)
Don Byron has written arrangements of Sondheim’s Broadway musicals and original scores for silent film, television, and dance companies. He has composed music for a variety of media, documentaries, big band, violin, piano and string quartets, etc.
Date: Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: 5-6 pm
Reception follows
Free and open to the public.
Sponsored by MIT Music and Theater Arts.
Posted in Author readings, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted March 1st, 2013 by Remlee Green
Start cultivating a garden of knowledge with MIT Libraries’ research guides. Our guides dig deeper than Google to uncover the best sources for information on your research topic. Each guide contains lists of resources recommended by expert librarians. Suggestions for print and electronic resources, databases, and journals—it’s all there!
- Researching soil chemistry properties in the scholarly literature? What database does the Chemistry guide suggest?
- Not sure what the first settlers in Massachusetts grew in their gardens? Try the Historical Newspapers guide.
We even have guides about organizing your references, managing your data, getting published, and so much more! Seriously, think of a topic – any topic. Yep, we probably have that, too.
And you’re always welcome to ask us for help!
Posted in All news, Art + Architecture + Planning, Business + Management, Engineering, Humanities, Music, Science, Social Sciences, Subject/Topic areas
Posted February 21st, 2013 by Heather Denny
David M. Epstein conductor of the MIT Symphony Orchestra, 1965-1998, Photo: MIT Museum
A new exhibition exploring the extraordinary connection between the MIT mind and music has opened in the Libraries’ Maihaugen Gallery.
Noteworthy Connections: Music in the MIT Libraries delves into the holdings of the Lewis Music Library and the Institute Archives and Special Collections, to reveal MIT’s diverse musical interests, the accomplishments of its talented students and faculty, and the rich history the Institute’s musical groups and clubs.
The exhibit will be on view in the gallery until December, 2013. Visit the gallery:
Monday-Thursday
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Building 14N-130
Posted in All news, Archives + MIT History, Events, Exhibits, Music, Preservation + Conservation, Subject/Topic areas
Posted February 19th, 2013 by Christie Moore
The MIT Libraries now have a subscription to Naxos Video Library. This streaming video database provides a large collection of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts, and documentaries.
Shortcut URL: http://libraries.mit.edu/get/naxosvideo
(MIT certificates required; 5 simultaneous users)
Posted in All news, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted February 6th, 2013 by Christie Moore
Composer forum series: 5 pm, Lewis Music Library Bldg. 14E-109
Reception follows. Free and open to the public.
Elena Ruehr
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Elena Ruehr, Lecturer in Music at MIT, discusses her new CD, Averno, for chorus and orchestra, with poetry by American poets Louise Gluck, Langston Hughes, and Emily Dickinson.
Visit: elenaruehr.org/
Cindy Cox
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Cindy Cox derives her “post-tonal” musical language from acoustics, innovations in technology, harmonic resonance, and poetic allusion. Her compositions synthesize old and new musical designs.
Visit: cacox.com
Sponsored by MIT Music and Theater Arts.
Posted in All news, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted January 9th, 2013 by Mark Szarko
Thursday, January 10, 2013, 3-4pm in 14N-132
photo by L.Barry Hetherington
Are you interested in music, video, literature, art or architecture? Join Libraries staff for a session highlighting some of the vast arts, culture, and multimedia resources available to you through the MIT Libraries. Learn how to access over a million tracks of streaming audio (everything from classical to jazz to popular music), over 150,000 online music scores, streaming video of foreign films, dance, theater, documentaries and more, and over one million high-res images of art, architecture, science and the humanities.
Please register for this class.
Questions? Contact Mark Szarko.
Posted in Art + Architecture + Planning, Classes, Events, Humanities, Music
Posted October 30th, 2012 by Christie Moore
Composer forum series: 5 pm, Lewis Music Library Bldg. 14E-109
Reception follows. Free and open to the public.
Peter Whincop
Monday November 5, 2012
Peter Whincop, Lecturer in Music at MIT, teaches Electronic Music Composition. He will provide an exposition of a few of his works involving text, or voice in a more abstract context, based on simple perceptual and algebraic precepts.
Philippe Leroux
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Continuity and Gesture in the Music of Philippe Leroux
Philippe Leroux is an Associate Professor in composition at the Schulich School of Music, McGill University. At the Paris Conservatory he studied with Ivo Malec, Claude Ballif, Pierre Schäeffer and Guy Reibel; he also studied with Olivier Messiaen, Franco Donatoni, Betsy Jolas, Jean-Claude Eloy and Iannis Xénakis. His compositions, about sixty to date, include symphonic, vocal, electronic, acousmatic and chamber music. and have been commissioned and performed internationally. He has received many prizes and awards and has taught at IRCAM, McGill, Universite de Montreal and others.
Sponsored by the Music and Theater Arts Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Posted in All news, Author readings, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted October 22nd, 2012 by Christie Moore
Composer forum series: Peter Whincop, MIT Lecturer in Music, teaching Electronic Music Composition. Whincop will provide an exposition of a few of his works involving text, or voice in a more abstract context, based on simple perceptual and algebraic precepts.
Date: Monday, October 29
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: 5-6 pm
Reception follows
Free and open to the public
Posted in All news, Author readings, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted October 16th, 2012 by Christie Moore
Roger Reynolds (Photo: Malcom Crowthers)
Composer forum series: Roger Reynolds, Resource and Outcome. An illustrated presentation with performance (Gabriella Diaz, violinist).
Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: 5-6 pm
Reception follows
Free and open to the public
See more information.
Posted in All news, Author readings, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted June 18th, 2012 by Christie Moore
You may see the Lewis Music Library’s new MediaMobile roaming around campus soon!
The MediaMobile is a moveable cart that can travel across campus to highlight the MIT Libraries’ many online media materials. It has a large monitor and audio speakers to demo streaming audio and video products, full-text books, music scores, images, bibliographic databases, etc.
The MediaMobile will be available to MIT librarians so that online information in a variety of subjects can be shared with the MIT community.
The MediaMobile was funded by the Class of 1982 Music Library Fund. To see more experimental services at the MIT Libraries, check out the list of current Betas & Widgets.
Posted in All news, Betas, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted April 17th, 2012 by Christie Moore
The 10th annual Prokopoff violin music concert will be held at 3 pm on Friday, May 4, 2012 in the Lewis Music Library. MIT students will perform selections by Bach, Chopin, Dvorak, and Sarasate. This annual event honors the collection of over 2,000 violin music scores collected by Stephen Prokopoff and donated to the library in 2001 by Lois Craig, former Associate Dean of MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning. Come enjoy some wonderful music in an attractive setting!
Date: Friday, May 4, 2012
Place: Lewis Music Library, Bldg. 14E-109
Time: 3–4 pm
The concert is free and open to the public.
Posted in All news, Events, Music, Subject/Topic areas
Posted March 26th, 2012 by Christie Moore
Opera in Video is now available to the MIT community. This streaming database contains 500 hours of opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries. Selections represent some of the world’s best performers, conductors, and opera houses.
Stream video to your mobile device! All video is now supported for iPhone operating on 3G network or better and Android. Click on the mobile phone icon next to each video in the database to stream directly to your mobile device.
Posted in All news, Music, Subject/Topic areas, Videos
Posted March 23rd, 2012 by Mark Szarko
When: Thu April 26, 12:30 – 1:30 pm
Where: 14N-132
Want to find out how to obtain over one million tracks of streaming audio ranging from classical to jazz, popular, and contemporary world music? How about over 150,000 online music scores? Streaming video of poets reading from their work? Images so sharp you can see the shadow beneath the Mona Lisa’s smile? Or panoramic views of architectural sites from around the world?
Come to this session to learn how to bring these and other cultural treasures right to your desktop through the MIT Libraries.
Please register for this session. For more information, please contact Mark Szarko.
Posted in All news, Art + Architecture + Planning, Classes, Events, Humanities, Music
Posted March 23rd, 2012 by Mark Szarko
When: Wed April 11, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Where: Lobby 10
Celebrate National Bookmobile Day with the MIT Libraries! Check out new fiction and non-fiction, DVDs, and music (Bring your MIT ID if you want to borrow something).
For more information, please contact Theresa Tobin.
Posted in All news, Art + Architecture + Planning, Events, Humanities, Music
