Writing for The New York Times, Michael Cooper reports on Prof. Tod Machover’s new work about Detroit, “Symphony in D.” “I look forward to working with Detroiters from all backgrounds to create a collective musical portrait of this exciting moment in the city’s history, when everything is being rethought and anything is possible,” says Machover.
Three new works composed by MIT lecturer Elena Ruehr are premiering over the coming weeks, reports David Weininger for The Boston Globe. “The next two weeks constitute a sort of bicoastal mini-festival of new works by Ruehr,” he writes. “It’s an enviable burst of activity for any composer.”
Keith Powers writes for WBUR about the upcoming premieres of three new works by MIT lecturer and composer Elena Ruehr. “Most composers are happy to have one premiere of a major work every year. Elena Ruehr has three in November alone,” explains Powers.
David Weininger reports for The Boston Globe on Professor Evan Ziporyn’s upcoming concert to celebrate his “20,000th day on earth.” The concert is slated for Tuesday and will be held in Killian Hall.
David Barnett of NPR speaks with Professor Tod Machover about the use of technology in modern opera. Machover’s most recent opera, Death and the Powers, tells the story of a man who wants to live forever and downloads himself into a computer consciousness called “The System.”
Boston Globe reporter Eryn Carlson writes about the recipients of the 2014 Guggenheim Fellowships, highlighting lecturer Elena Ruehr’s plans to use the award to help her write an opera.
In a piece that appears in New Scientist and Slate, Markus Buehler of MIT compares molecular structures found in nature to the composition of musical pieces.