Frederick Harris, music director; Kenneth Amis, assistant conductor
Special guests: Laura Jaye & the MIT Vocal Jazz Ensemble
This special MIT annual event celebrates wide-ranging music from Elgar's Enigma Variations and Bernstein's Slava, to Ellington and Brian Blade's popular Fellowship Band. Along with classical music performed by the MIT Wind Ensemble, saxophone and percussion ensembles, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble will feature vocalist Laura Jaye, MIT's new affiliated artist and director of MIT's Vocal Jazz Ensemble (VJE), as well as the entire VJE in a program of classic and contemporary jazz.