{"id":171,"date":"2024-04-28T12:53:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T12:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/04\/28\/musical-life-carlos-prieto-conversation-and-concert-0426\/"},"modified":"2024-04-28T12:53:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T12:53:45","slug":"musical-life-carlos-prieto-conversation-and-concert-0426","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/2024\/04\/28\/musical-life-carlos-prieto-conversation-and-concert-0426\/","title":{"rendered":"A musical life: Carlos Prieto \u201959 in conversation and concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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World-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto\u00a0\u201959 returned to campus for an event to perform and to discuss his new memoir, \u201cMi Vida Musical.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the April 9 event in the Samberg Conference Center, Prieto spoke about his formative years at MIT and his subsequent career as a professional cellist. The talk was followed by performances<\/a> of J.S. Bach\u2019s \u201cCello Suite No. 3\u201d and Eugenio \u201cToussaint\u2019s Bachriation.\u201d Valerie Chen, a 2022 Sudler Prize winner and Emerson\/Harris Fellow, also performed Phillip Glass\u2019s \u201cOrbit.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prieto was born in Mexico City and began studying the cello when he was 4. He graduated from MIT with BS degrees in 1959 in Course 3, then called the Metallurgical Engineering and today Materials Science and Engineering, and in Course 14 (Economics). He was the first cello and soloist of the MIT Symphony Orchestra. While at MIT, he took all available courses in Russian, which allowed him, years later, to study at Lomonosov University in Moscow.<\/p>\n

After graduation from MIT, Prieto returned to Mexico, where he rose to become the head of an integrated iron and steel company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I returned to Mexico, I was very active in my business life, but I was also very active in my music life,\u201d he told the audience. \u201cAnd at one moment, the music overcame all the other activities and I left my business activities to devote all my time to the cello and I\u2019ve been doing this for the past 50 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

During his musical career, Prieto played all over the world and has played and recorded the world premieres of 115 compositions, most of which were written for him. He is the author of 14 books, some of which have been translated into English, Russian, and Portuguese.<\/p>\n

Prieto\u2019s honors include the Order of the Arts and Letters from France, the Order of Civil Merit from the\u00a0King of Spain, and the National Prize for Arts and Sciences from the president of Mexico. In 1993 he was appointed member of the MIT Music and Theater Advisory Committee. In 2014, the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences awarded\u00a0Prieto\u00a0the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World-renowned cellist Carlos Prieto\u00a0\u201959 returned to campus for an event to perform and to discuss his new memoir, \u201cMi Vida Musical.\u201d At the April 9 event in the Samberg Conference Center, Prieto spoke about his formative years at MIT and his subsequent career as a professional cellist. The talk was followed by performances of J.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,264,130,263,59,141,262],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/sawberries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}