MIT's Annual Family Weekend Concert

MIT’s Annual Family Weekend Concert

Where the Word Ends—Celebrating Music’s Power to Unite

Friday, October 25, 2024/8:00 p.m.

Kresge Auditorium, MIT

MIT Wind Ensemble & MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble

Frederick Harris, Jr., Music Director

Kenneth Amis, Assistant Conductor

Join us for a special evening of exciting and expressive music that speaks to our collective humanity. The MIT Wind Ensemble performs a wide range of music by four American composers including Leonard Bernstein’s intense Profanation, from his Symphony No. 1, Florence Price’s heart-felt Adoration, and William Schuman’s bold Chester Overture from his popular New England Triptych. Under the direction of Kenneth Amis, MITWE also performs We Seven, an innovative and beautiful piece inspired by the book of the same title written by the U.S.’s first astronauts known as the “Mercury Seven.” The MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble performs a high-spirited set of pieces by Puerto Rican composers including Tito Puente and Miguel Zenón, and music by Herbie Hancock, Duke Ellington, and Horace Silver. 

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