MIT professors Edward Crawley, Nathaniel Hendren, Mei Hong, Tod Machover, Anna Mikusheva, Elchanan Mossel, and Xiao-Gang Wen were elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2024.
On Thursday night as part of a Music for the Senses festival, Andris Nelsons led works inspired by Mark Rothko and by an early-20th-century vision of color matched with sound.
From an evening with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Kathryn Stott to a spate of concerts from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the season is brimming with an impressive variety of classical events. Arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounds up the performances he's looking forward to.
Tod Machover is generating new collaborations. On Wednesday evening, the MIT Media Lab faculty member and Musical America’s 2016 Composer of the Year gave a two-hour presentation at the Herb Alpert School of Music.
A conference in Shenzhen about Arnold Schoenberg saw the Chinese premiere of Tod Machover’s opera about the 20th century Austrian Jewish composer who pioneered atonal music and his exile in America.