MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra

Now in its 18th season, the MIT Summer Philharmonic Orchestra (MITSPO) has been the preeminent summer community orchestra for nearly two decades.  Made up of top musicians of the MIT community and the general Greater Boston area, MITSPO hosts a single concert event every summer. 
In 2009, MITSPO was invited to participate in the Landmarks Festival at the Shell series and make its debut at the Hatch Shell at the Boston Esplanade.  

MITSPO is proud to be sponsored by MIT Professional Education.

MITSPO is conducted by George Ogata who founded the orchestra in 1995.  Mr. Ogata has been on the faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College since 1996 as Conductor of the Longy Youth Chamber Orchestra, the senior youth orchestra program.  He has led the youth orchestra on tour to Austria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, France, and Spain.

Masterworks performed in the past include:

• Beethoven, Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
• Brahms, Symphony No. 1
• Brahms, Symphony No. 2
• Brahms, Symphony No. 4
• Bruckner, Symphony No. 6
  
• Dvorak, Symphony No. 7
• Dvorak, Symphony No. 8
• Dvorak, Symphony No. 9, "From the New World"
• Dvorak, Wood Dove
  
• Liszt, A Faust Symphony
• Mahler, Symphony No. 5
• Mahler, Symphony No. 9
• Saint-Saens, Symphony No. 3, "Organ"
  
• Schubert, Symphony No. 7(8), "Unfinished"
• Schumann, Symphony No. 4
  
• Sibelius, Finlandia
  
• Sibelius, Symphony No. 1
• Sibelius, Symphony No. 2
  
• Rachmaninov, Isle of the Dead
  
• Rachmaninov, Symphony No. 2
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Capriccio Espagnol
  
• Rimsky-Korsakov, Scheherazade
• Tchaikovsky, Capriccio Italien
  
• Tchaikovsky, Francesca da Rimini
• Tchaikovsky, Manfred Symphony
  
• Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy
• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 4
• Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5
  

Friday, July 19, 2013
8:00 P.M.
Kresge Auditorium, MIT Campus
48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Free admission (no ticket necessary)

Borodin, Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Dvorak, Symphony No. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"

All rehearsals are 7:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
Located at Kresge Auditorium on the MIT campus
48 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Dates:

• Wednesday, June 12
• Tuesday, June 18
• Tuesday, June 25
  
• Tuesday, July 2
• Thursday, July 11
• Tuesday, July 16
• Thursday, July 18