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Photo	Name	MIT Affiliation	Music/Professional Work	Interview Dates
	Dante Anzolini	MIT AffiliationMIT Associate Professor of Music, 1998-2006; conductor, MIT Symphony	Music/ Professional WorkConductor of orchestras in the United States, Latin America, and Europe	Interview Dates 03/28/2005 11/02/2005 03/21/2006 11/19/2007
	Jeanne Bamberger	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor of Music, 1971-2005	Music/ Professional WorkPianist, Music Theorist	Interview Dates 05/27/2005 06/07/2005
	John Bavicchi	MIT AffiliationMIT student, Business and Engineering, 1940-1942	Music/ Professional WorkComposer, conductor; Professor of Music, Berklee College of Music	Interview Dates 06/30/2006 09/01/2006
	Leo Beranek	MIT AffiliationMIT Associate Professor of Communications Engineering, 1947-1958	Music/ Professional WorkConcert hall acoustical design consultant; partner in BBN Inc.	Interview Dates 09/30/2008 10/09/2008
	Linda Solow Blotner	MIT AffiliationMIT Music Librarian, 1972-1984	Music/ Professional WorkHead, Music Library, Hartt School of Music 1987-2007	Interview Dates 05/17/2010
	David Bondelevitch	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Film/Video Production, 1985; trumpet player	Music/ Professional WorkAssistant Professor at University of Southern California School of Cinema and Television; film music & dialog editor and mixing engineer	Interview Dates 05/03/2003
	Claude Brenner	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Aeronautical Engineering, 1947; MIT M.S.,1948; sang in the MIT Glee Club and the MIT Logarhythms	Music/ Professional WorkPresident, Commonwealth Energy Group Ltd.; active in Council for the Arts at MIT	Interview Dates 11/21/2008 05/01/2009
	Peter Child	MIT AffiliationProfessor of Music, 1986-	Music/ Professional WorkComposer	Interview Dates 05/04/2018
	Adrian Childs	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Mathematics and Music, 1994; played in the MIT Concert Band, Chamber Music Society; student composer	Music/ Professional WorkComposer; Assistant Professor of Music, University of Georgia	Interview Dates 09/13/2000
	Charles Yardley Chittick	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Business and Engineering (Course XV), 1922; MIT Mandolin Club	Music/ Professional WorkPatent attorney	Interview Dates 01/11/2007
	John Corley	MIT AffiliationFounding director and conductor of the MIT Concert Band, 1949-1999	Music/ Professional WorkConductor, trumpet player	Interview Dates 08/19/1999 09/03/1999 12/10/1999
	Cherry Emerson	MIT AffiliationMIT M.S. Chemical Engineering, 1941	Music/ Professional WorkChemical engineer, amateur pianist; philanthropist for music at MIT	Interview Dates 11/28/2000 11/30/2000
	Stephen Erdely	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor of Music, 1973-1991	Music/ Professional WorkEthnomusicologist, concert violinist	Interview Dates 03/24/1999 08/04/1999
	Sara Emerson Farwell	MIT AffiliationDaughter of Arthur Farwell, MIT B.S. Electrical Engineering, 1893	Music/ Professional WorkActress; theater voice teacher; daughter of the distinguished composer Arthur Farwell, 1872-1952	Interview Dates 06/14/2007
	David Foxe	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Architecture and Music, 2003; M.S. Architecture, 2006	Music/ Professional WorkArchitect and composer	Interview Dates 08/08/2003
	William Grossman	MIT AffiliationMIT S.B. 1969 and M.S. 1971 in Computer Science; active in many MIT performing groups	Music/ Professional WorkConductor, arranger, editor, and rehearsal pianist for Broadway theater productions in New York	Interview Dates 05/03/2003
	John Harbison	MIT AffiliationProfessor of Music 1969 -	Music/ Professional WorkComposer, Pianist	Interview Dates 02/08/2019 03/29/2019
	Ellen T. Harris	MIT AffiliationProfessor Emeritus 1989 -	Music/ Professional WorkMusicologist	Interview Dates 06/18/2018
	Mark S. Harvey	MIT AffiliationSenior Lecturer in Music 1981 -	Music/ Professional WorkTrumpet player, composer	Interview Dates 12/20/2017
	Arnold Judson	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Chemical Engineering, 1947; MIT M.S. Organizational Behavior, 1948; pianist; active in MIT student performing groups	Music/ Professional WorkBusiness management consultant; pianist; composer	Interview Dates 12/21/2007 04/25/2008
	Samuel Jay Keyser	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor Emeritus, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy; played in MIT Concert Jazz Band	Music/ Professional WorkLinguist, trombonist in area jazz bands	Interview Dates 09/22/2010 12/02/2010 12/17/2010
	Lionel Kinney	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Civil Engineering, 1953; active in student performing groups	Music/ Professional WorkEngineer with Caterpiller, Inc; philanthropist for music at MIT	Interview Dates 06/05/2008 06/06/2008
	Karl Kornacker	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Physics, 1958; MIT Ph.D. Biology, 1962; cellist; played in MITSO	Music/ Professional WorkProfessor at Ohio State University, Division of Sensory Biophysics; semi-professional cellist	Interview Dates 07/11/2002 07/11/2002
	Lowell Lindgren	MIT AffiliationProfessor of Music Emeritus 1979-2013	Music/ Professional WorkMusicologist	Interview Dates 10/27/2016 01/25/2017
	Everett Longstreth	MIT AffiliationDirector of MIT Concert Jazz Band, 1968-1995	Music/ Professional WorkBand leader, trumpet player, arranger	Interview Dates 03/30/2011
	Rajesh Mehta	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Electrical Engineering and Humanities, 1986	Music/ Professional WorkTrumpet player	Interview Dates 03/27/2001
	Richard Orr	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S., 1962; MIT M.S., 1963; MIT Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, 1973; played in Festival Jazz Ensemble	Music/ Professional WorkElectrical engineer, jazz trombonist, composer	Interview Dates 05/03/2003
	Herb Pomeroy	MIT AffiliationDirector of MIT Jazz Bands, 1963-1985; founder of the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble	Music/ Professional WorkJazz trumpeter and band leader; composer, arranger; Professor at Berklee College College of Music 1955-1995	Interview Dates 12/14/1999 04/05/2000 04/26/2000
	Brian Robison	MIT AffiliationMIT Assistant Professor of Music, 2002-2006	Music/ Professional WorkComposer	Interview Dates 07/02/2007 08/17/2007
	Elena Ruehr	MIT AffiliationLecturer in Music 1991 -	Music/ Professional WorkComposer	Interview Dates 12/14/2016
	Jamshied Sharifi	MIT AffiliationDirected the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, 1985-1992; MIT B.S. Humanities, 1983	Music/ Professional WorkComposer, keyboard player, producer, arranger	Interview Dates 03/27/2012
	Robert Sprich	MIT AffiliationMIT B.S. Humanities, 1960; Music Library student assistant	Music/ Professional WorkProfessor of English Emeritus, Bentley College	Interview Dates 05/16/2002
	Patricia Tang	MIT AffiliationAssociate Professor of Music	Music/ Professional WorkEthnomusicologist, violinist	Interview Dates 11/28/2018
	Marcus Thompson	MIT AffiliationProfessor of Music 1973 - ; Institute Professor 2015 -	Music/ Professional WorkViolist	Interview Dates 10/26/2017
	Barry Vercoe	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor Emeritus of Music; MIT Professor of Media Arts and Sciences	Music/ Professional WorkComputer music engineer, composer, conductor	Interview Dates 08/09/2011 04/24/2012
	Claudia Von Canon	MIT AffiliationMIT Lecturer in Music, 1974-1991	Music/ Professional WorkPianist, harpsichordist, singer, novelist	Interview Dates 10/03/2001 10/09/2001
	Duscha Weisskopf	MIT AffiliationMIT Music Librarian, 1949-1952	Music/ Professional WorkHistorian, amateur singer	Interview Dates 05/29/2009