Thomas Kelly: Music for Mike - Great Teachers

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Channel: Harvard University · 2012 · Education

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Interviews with Thomas Kelly, composer Matt Aucoin, and violinist Hillary Ditmars frame the first performance of "Music for Mike," the piece which marked the end of the semester, and offered students an opportunity to experience the sort of "real time, immediate experience" similar to those they had studied all term.

Thomas Kelly has been a Professor of Music at Harvard University since 1994 and served as the chair of the Department of Music from 1999 to 2005.  Professor Kelly teaches the popular undergraduate course First Nights: Five Performance Premiers, which examines five musical premieres as significant moments of cultural history. His main research interest is in medieval chant, where he has identified and published an important repertory of early chant from southern Italy.

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