Celebrating Homegrown MIT Jazz

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Celebrating Homegrown MIT Jazz

This concert will celebrate music composed for the MIT FJE over the years, and also feature music by Lihi Haruvi and Kira Daglio Fine.

By MIT Music and Theater Arts

When and where

Date and time

Starts on Friday, May 12 · 8pm EDT

Location

Kresge Auditorium 48 Massachusetts Avenue #w16 Cambridge, MA 02139

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About this event

  • 2 hours
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Celebrating Homegrown MIT Jazz

 Friday, May 12, 2023

8:00pm, Kresge Auditorium

MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director 

Lihi Haruvi, guest saxophonist-composer

Kira Daglio Fine, guest composer-conductor

Click here to view the livestream: https://mta.mit.edu/viewlisten/live-kresge-auditorium

The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble has a long history of original music composed or arranged by its student membership and various musicians associated with the ensemble since its inception in 1963. 

This concert will celebrate music composed for the MIT FJE over the years, and also feature music by Berklee College of Music assistant professor, MIT lecturer, and saxophonist-composer Lihi Haruvi, as well as music by local composer-band leader and NEC graduate student, Kira Daglio Fine. 

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About the organizer

The Music and Theater Arts section provides students at MIT the opportunity to experience the unique language and process of the arts. Faculty and teaching staff help students understand art’s demand for rigor and discipline and its non-quantitative standards of excellence and beauty. A strong, comprehensive program in both music and theater arts—encompassing history, theory, and performance—is taught by faculty and staff of the highest caliber. 

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