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Photo	Name	MIT Affiliation	Music/Professional Work	Interview Dates
	Jeanne Bamberger	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor of Music, 1971-2005	Music/ Professional WorkPianist, Music Theorist	Interview Dates 05/27/2005 06/07/2005
	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
	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
	Stephen Erdely	MIT AffiliationMIT Professor of Music, 1973-1991	Music/ Professional WorkEthnomusicologist, concert violinist	Interview Dates 03/24/1999 08/04/1999
	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
	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
	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
	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
	Marcus Thompson	MIT AffiliationProfessor of Music 1973 - ; Institute Professor 2015 -	Music/ Professional WorkViolist	Interview Dates 10/26/2017
	Claudia Von Canon	MIT AffiliationMIT Lecturer in Music, 1974-1991	Music/ Professional WorkPianist, harpsichordist, singer, novelist	Interview Dates 10/03/2001 10/09/2001