Premiere of original music featuring a novel synthesizer. Collaboration with M. Cherep. Supported by a project grant from the Council for the Arts at MIT.

A gathering of performers from across Harvard and the broader community hosted by Professor of the Practice Claire Chase. Jessica performs a trio arrangement of “Fast is the Century” by Du Yun with Mai Nguyen and Claire Chase.

Jessica visits the New Music Ensemble course at Harvard, taught by Professor of the Practice Claire Chase, to talk contemporary improvisation and the music of Susie Ibarra.

Co-sponsored by the American Composers Alliance.

Described in The Washington Post as “intellectually engaging, explosive with imagination and with a satisfying visceral power,” music by American composer David Froom is featured on this concert honoring his artistic legacy. The program includes the New York premiere of his final work, “Lament for the City” for mixed ensemble. A Guggenheim fellow and twice honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Mr. Froom (1951-2022) was awarded prizes or commissions by the Fromm, Koussevitzky and Barlow Foundations, and was first prize winner of the Kennedy Center’s Friedheim Awards. His music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia by, among many others, the Louisville, Seattle, Utah, Chesapeake, League-ISCM, and Riverside Symphony Orchestras, The United States Marine Band, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Boston Musica Viva, the New York New Music Ensemble, and the Aurelia Quartet.

Recordings on a dozen commercial CDs can be found on the standard streaming platforms.

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Curtis Macomber, violin; Jessica Shand, flute; Scott Wheeler, piano; Eliza Garth, piano; Miles Walter, piano; James Baker, conductor; Thomas Meglioranza, baritone; Wendy Stern, flute; Timothy Ruedeman, saxophone; William Anderson, guitar; Lois Martin, viola; Chris Finckel, cello; Oliver Xu, percussion.

All are invited to join the University and Cambridge communities as we welcome Little Amal to Harvard. As Amal approaches the historic gates, she wonders, “What is this place, and is it for me?” Join her to experience the sights, sounds, and energy of Harvard’s vibrant community and to discover what lies inside its gates.

• 6PM, Harvard’s Science Center Plaza: Get ready to welcome Amal with free food, artistic creation, and opportunities to learn more about the international refugee crisis

• 7PM, Harvard Yard: Walk with Amal as she journeys from solitude to community

Artistic elements of Finding Friends in Harvard Yard are being created in collaboration with the Harvard Graduate School of Design; The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University; The Immigrant Learning Center; and CityStep. The event is produced in collaboration with Harvard University Committee on the Arts.

Jessica premieres new music to celebrate the MIT School of Architecture & Planning Class of 2023.

Jessica joins Claire Chase as both flutist and curatorial assistant for Density 2036.

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MOTHERBIRD (2023) for augmented flute, electronics, and artificial life simulation reimagines the centuries-old flute-as-bird archetype in a 21st-century context in which anthropogenic climate change has drastically altered the soundscapes of the natural world. An early instantiation of Armitage’s Agential Scores, a mode of score creation which challenges entangling human performers and musical instruments with artificial life simulations, the piece positions the flute as one organism within an indeterminate global ecosystem—an ecosystem in which changing sonic textures mediate the flocking behaviors of birds, or Boids, in real time. Per the speculative writings of Anna Tsing, Donna Haraway, Karen Barad, and others, the performer-composers ask: how might storytelling and fictionality serve as tools for deconstructing anthropocentric regimes? In MOTHERBIRD, reality is front-and-center, urging listeners to engage critically in becoming-with non-human and more-than-human worlds. 

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MIT’s Emerson-Harris scholars in jazz present arrangements of standard works alongside premieres of original pieces.

MIT’s Emerson-Harris scholars in jazz present arrangements of standard works alongside premieres of original pieces.

Jessica Shand and Tristan Yang perform the Sonatine for flute and piano by Pierre Boulez alongside other works pairing MIT student musicians.

Join families, community members, and Carnegie Hall’s 2022–2023 Debs Creative Chair Claire Chase for a daylong celebration of Pauline Oliveros, the visionary composer and performer known for her concept of Deep Listening™. This two-part event in the intimate and immersive Zankel Hall Center Stage seating blurs the lines between listening, learning, and performing.

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For the last Math Table of the semester, the student group Harvard Gender Inclusivity in Mathematics (GIIM) will be hosting a panel on inclusion in mathematics in our department and beyond. The panel will also discuss some of the common experiences reported in over 35 interviews to women in the department that GIIM has conducted over the past two years (all of which are available on GIIM's social media and will be compiled into a booklet for the event). The panelists will be

• Prof. Lauren Williams (professor)

• Dr. Reshma Menon (preceptor)

• Amanda Burcroff (graduate student)

• Jenny Kaufmann (graduate student)

• Jessica Shand (undergraduate student)

and the panel will be moderated by Sílvia Casacuberta (undergraduate student).

Claire Chase is joined by Talking Gong Trio (Chase, Ibarra, and the pianist Alex Peh) and by her students from the Harvard New Music Ensemble in this program featuring Ibarra’s sparkling and genre-defying new solo and ensemble works.