Skip to content ↓

Tech Night at Pops features MIT East African ensemble


Although Boston's Symphony Hall is far from sub-Saharan Africa, the famed auditorium will pulse to East African rhythms as MITCAN, MIT's East African performance ensemble, makes its Boston Pops debut on Thursday, June 1 at 8pm.

Boston Pops laureate conductor John Williams will conduct the program for the 103rd annual Tech Night at Pops, which also features works by Mr. Williams, Aaron Copland, the overture to Frank Loesser's Guys and Dolls, a Hoagy Carmichael Suite and a tribute to Frank Sinatra, concluding with MIT's alma mater, In Praise of MIT (Arise, All Ye of MIT). A post-Pops reception will be held at Symphony Hall.

Any tickets still available for Tech Night at the Pops will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis on Thursday, June 1 at La Sala de Puerto Rico from noon-6pm (limit 10 tickets per person). Contact Amy Seybold-Burke at x3-8216.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on May 31, 2000.

Related Topics

More MIT News

Globular blue and white orbs "examining" single-stranded RNA products and marking them with green checks or red x's

Why are some bacterial genes high in purines?

In certain species of bacteria, the answer lies in shielding RNA transcripts from a quality-control factor called Rho. Understanding the requirements for expressible sequences is critical for expression engineering of therapeutic agents.

Read full story

Rich Nielsen, Volha Charnysh, Kevin Dorst, and Emily Richmond Pollock seated at a table, talking

Building a scholarly community

The SHASS Faculty Fellows Program, administered by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, is fostering new research projects and creating space for supportive and interdisciplinary discussion.

Read full story