Music and History

Saturday, March 14, 1998
Review from the Boston Globe
Review from The Tech
The choir accompanied the MIT Symphony Orchestra in Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, as the farewell concert for David Epstein, the MIT Symphony Orchestra's director for nearly 35 years.
(sung by MIT Concert Choir with members of the Brookline Chorus)

MIT Concert Choir and MIT Symphony Orchestra Concert

Friday, May 1, 1998
The choir was accompanied by the MIT Symphony Orchestra in Carl Orff's Carmina Burana. The MIT Symphony Orchestra also played a work by Mozart.

Fall 1998

MIT Concert Choir Concert

Friday, November 20, 1998
The choir performed Franz Joseph Haydn's The Seasons (Die Jahreszeiten).

Spring 1999

MIT Concert Choir Concert

Friday, April 30, 1999
Picture from The Tech
The choir performed:

Mass in G Minor - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony of Psalms - Igor Stravinsky

Fall 1999

Family Weekend Concert

Saturday, October 16, 1999
Review from The Tech
The choir performed with the MIT Symphony Orchestra:

Introduction and Chorus from "Cavalleria Rusticana" - Pietro Mascagni
Va, Pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi.
Stomp Your Foot, Chorus from The Tender Land- Aaron Copland

MIT Concert Choir Concert

Friday, November 19, 1999
The choir performed:

Vesperae de Dominica, K 321 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gloria - Francis Poulenc

Spring 2000

MIT Wind Symphony & Wind Ensemble Concert

Saturday, March 4, 2000
The Concert Choir performed Vincent Persichetti's Celebrations with the MIT Wind Symphony. The choir also accompanied the MIT Wind Ensemble along with the MIT Handbell Ensemble on "The Lost Lady Found (Dance Song)," the final (6th) movement of Percy Aldridge Grainger's "Lincolnshire Posy."

MIT Concert Choir Concert

Friday, April 28, 2000
The choir performed with members of the MIT Wind Ensemble:

Motets - Anton Bruckner
- Ecce Sacerdos
- Offeretorium: Afferentur Regi
- Os Justi Meditabitur
Mass No. 2 in E Minor - Anton Bruckner
Apparebit Repentina Dies - Paul Hindemith

Fall 2000

M.I.T. 50th Anniversary Celebration of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences Concert

Friday, October 6, 2000
The choir performed with the MIT Symphony Orchestra for Ludwig van Beethoven's Choral Fantasy.

Family Weekend Concert

Friday, October 20, 2000
The choir performed Copland's "Old American Songs," accompanied by assistant conductor Henry Weinberger on piano.

Golden Willow Tree
The Boatmen's Dance
Simple Gifts
The Dodger
At the River
Zion's Walls

Wind Ensemble Concert

Friday, December 1, 2000
The choir accompanied the Wind Ensemble in Copland's Canticle of Freedom.

Fall Choir Concert

Saturday, December 2, 2000
The choir performed:

Works of Aaron Copland:
- Four Motets
  - Help Us, O Lord
  - Thou, O Jehovah, Abideth Forever
  - Have Mercy On Us, O My Lord
  - Sing Ye Praises To Our King
- Old American Songs
  - Golden Willow Tree
  - The Boatmen's Dance
  - Simple Gifts
  - The Dodger
  - At the River
  - Zion's Walls
- Canticle of Freedom (performed with the M.I.T. Wind Ensemble)
Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms

Spring 2001

Mahler's Second Symphony Collaboration with Tufts, Wellesley, and Brandeis

Saturday, April 21, 2001 -- Houghton Chapel, Wellesley College: Neal Hampton, conductor
Sunday, April 22, 2001 -- Cousens Gymnasium, Tufts University: Malka Sverdlov Yaacobi, conductor
The choir performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor ("Auferstehung"/"Resurrection") with a combined choir from MIT, Tufts, and Brandeis and a combined orchestra from Wellesley, Tufts, and Brandeis. The orchestras involved were the Tufts Symphony Orchestra, Brandeis Symphony Orchestra, and Wellesley College Orchestra. The MIT Concert Choir sang along with the Tufts University Chorale and Brandeis University Chorus.

Spring Choir Concert

Friday, May 4, 2001
The choir performed:

Requiem, Op. 9 - Maurice DuruflC)
Five Mystical Songs - Ralph Vaughan Williams
Der Abend - John Harbison (world premiere)
Elegischer Gesang, op. 118 - Ludwig Van Beethoven

Fall 2001

Fall Choir Concert

Saturday, December 1, 2001
The choir performed a benefit concert:

Messiah, Parts One and Two - Georg Friedrich Handel

featuring some of Boston's finest vocalists singing the arias and recitatives:

soprano Kendra Colton
mezzo-soprano Lynn Torgove
tenor Rockland Osgood
bass Thomas Jones

A portion of the admission price, plus additional donations collected at the door, went to the Unity Fund of the United Way of Massachusetts Bay.

MIT Symphony Orchestra Concert

Thursday, December 6, 2001 -- Open Rehearsal
Saturday, December 8, 2001 -- Concert
The choir accompanied the MIT Symphony Orchestra for Schicksalslied on their program of Brahms and Peter Child.

Spring 2002

Campus Preview Weekend Concert

Friday, April 5, 2002
The MIT Concert Choir performed
Classic American Musical Theater:

"Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" -- Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs
"Oklahoma" -- Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Oklahoma!
"Act III, Scene I" -- George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
"Ascot Gavotte" -- Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics), My Fair Lady
"Any Dream Will Do" -- Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

The concert also featured other performances by the MIT Wind Ensemble and MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble.

Spring Choir Concert

Saturday, April 27, 2002
Classic American Musical Theater:
An Evening at the Theater

"Invocation and Instructions to the Audience" -- Stephen Sondheim, The Frogs
"Oklahoma" and "Out of My Dreams" -- Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics), Oklahoma!
"Act III, Scene I" and "I'm on my way" -- George Gershwin, Porgy and Bess
"Ascot Gavotte" -- Frederick Loewe (music) and Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics), My Fair Lady
"Any Dream Will Do" and "Close Every Door" -- Andrew Lloyd Webber, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
"Put On Your Sunday Clothes" -- Jerry Herman, Hello, Dolly!
"Sit Down, John" and "Piddle, Twiddle and Resolve" -- Sherman Edwards, 1776
"Can't Help Lovin' That Man" -- Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) Show Boat
"A Weekend in the Country" -- Sondheim, A Little Night Music
"Brigadoon," "Vendors' Calls," and "Down on MacConnachy Square" -- Lerner and Loewe, Brigadoon
"Iowa Stubborn," "Lida Rose," and "Will I Ever Tell You?" -- Meredith Willson, The Music Man
"Tradition" -- Jerry Bock (music) and Sheldon Harnick (lyrics), Fiddler on the Roof
"You Could Drive a Person Crazy" and "Sorry-Grateful" -- Sondheim, Company
"Unexpected Song" -- Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Don Black (original lyrics), Song and Dance
"Mira (Can you imagine that?)" -- Bob Merrill, Carnival

Boston Pops Concert

Thursday, June 6, 2002
Tech Night at the Pops, Symphony Hall, Boston
Members of the MIT Concert Choir and MIT Chamber Chorus joined the Boston Pops, conducted by Keith Lockhart, in a variety of American works.

Fall 2002

Fall Choir Concert

Friday, November 22, 2002
The choir performed:

Zwei Motetten (Two Motets), Op. 29 - Johannes Brahms
1. Es ist das Heil uns kommen her
2. Schaffe in mir, Gott, ein rein Herz
Messe in C-Dur (Mass in C), Op. 86 - Ludwig van Beethoven

We were joined by these soloists:

Margaret O'Keefe, soprano
Majie Zeller, alto
Frederick Urrey, tenor
David Kravitz, bass

Spring 2003

Spring Choir Concert

Friday, May 2, 2003
Saturday, May 3, 2003 (Brown University)
The choir performed with the Brown University Chorus, in one concert at MIT and another at Brown University in Providence, RI:

Vespers (All-Night Vigil), Op. 37 - Sergei Rachmaninoff (MIT Concert Choir and Brown University Chorus)
Psalms - Lukas Foss (MIT Concert Choir, featuring Henry Weinberger and Karen Harvey on pianos)
SydC$meni Laulo, Op. 18 No. 6 - Jean Sibelius (Brown University Chorus)
KevC$tunta, Op. 50 No. 3 - Leevi Madetoja (Brown University Chorus)
Magnificat - John Tavener (Brown University Chorus)
Keinutan Kaikua, Op. 11 No. 6 - Toivo Kuula (Brown University Chorus)
LC$htC6 (Ratsun selkC$C$n) - Einojuhani Rautavaara (Brown University Chorus)

Fall 2003

Fall Choir Concert

Friday, November 21, 2003

Magnificat in D - J. S. Bach
Orchestral Suite #3 - J. S. Bach
A Ceremony of Carols - Benjamin Britten

The concert featured Howard Chan, Victoria Davis, Elisabeth Hon, Kevin Hunt, Prathima Nandivada, Nathan Quitoriano, and Matthew Truss, soloists, as well as Carol Baum, harpist.