3 stories tagged ‘Harvard Jazz Bands’

Tom Everett to retire from Harvard

By Tom Lee, Office for the Arts Communications / January 10, 2013

The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Department of Music announced that Thomas G. Everett, director of Harvard Bands since 1971, will retire Feb. 15. His Harvard career will be celebrated in various ways at the University, including a Jazz Bands concert dedicated to him on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.

Tags: Alexander Rehding/Faculty/Harvard Bands/Harvard Department of Music/Harvard Jazz Bands/Harvard University Band/Harvard Wind Ensemble/jazz/Marc Olson/Office for the Arts at Harvard/Retirement/Thomas G. Everett/Tom Lee
Categories: Campus & Community, Faculty

When jazz was king

By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Staff Writer / November 5, 2012

Three local jazz figures came to Harvard to explore their passion for the music and its future as a singular American art form.

Tags: Arts/Bob Blumenthal/Colleen Walsh/Don Braden/Eric Jackson/Harvard Jazz Bands/jazz/Jazz Workshop/John Coltrane/Learning From Performers/Music/New York Times/Office for the Arts/Radio/Steve Schwartz/WBCN/WGBH/WHRB-FM
Categories: Arts & Culture, Music

An ode to life

By Colleen Walsh, Harvard Staff Writer / November 12, 2009

Musician Fred Ho’s new work, a commission from Harvard’s Office for the Arts and the Harvard Jazz Bands, chronicles the composer’s successful three-year battle with cancer.

Tags: Daniel Jáquez/Fred Ho/Harvard Arts Medal/Harvard Jazz Bands/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training/Office for the Arts’ Learning From Performers/Political Activist/Take the Zen Train/Thomas Everett
Categories: Arts & Culture, Music