Tag: Music

  • Nation & World

    Bringing sexy back to Harvard

    Looking dapper under the bright lights of New College Theatre, Hasty Pudding’s Man of the Year Justin Timberlake took his roast like a man, like only a sexy man can: In pink heels and a platinum blonde wig.

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    Artistic fun or vocation

    With professional-level standards already in place and the spirit of self-sufficiency a prized commodity, the question remains: Should there be University-funded performance degrees?

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    A joyful noise

    The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College celebrate the African-American aural tradition, and have done so for almost 40 years.

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    Levin to give Noble Lectures

    Robert D. Levin, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music in the Department of Music at Harvard, will deliver the annual William Belden Noble Lectures at the Memorial Church on Dec. 1-3 at 8 p.m.

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    Arts at center stage

    While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”

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    The piano man

    Austin Grimes is one of four technicians who travel across Harvard’s campus, keeping its 200 pianos in tune.

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    Rebel with a cause

    Before Greg Epstein became chaplain at Harvard’s Humanist Chaplaincy, he was a rock star. Now he’s written a book on Humanism, a religious philosophy that rejects supernaturalism while encouraging virtuous actions and decisions.

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    Big voice, big heart

    The Memorial Church welcomed opera virtuoso Dominique Labelle last week, who was described as genuine and gracious during her master class, proving that divas can be divas without diva behavior.

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    Hunting for rhythm’s DNA

    Radcliffe Fellow Godfried Toussaint taps computer science in a search for the evolutionary development of world music’s basic rhythms.

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    Delivering doses of sweet harmony

    As musicians from the Longwood Symphony Orchestra played selections from Dvorak’s “American Quartet,’’ 50 Vietnamese immigrants, mostly in their 70s and 80s, sat in plush chairs at a Dorchester day-care center for the elderly, listening raptly. Tears welled in Mary Nguyen’s eyes. Never in her 72 years had she heard such music, she said…

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    New Muslim cool

    “New Muslim Cool” documents an American Muslim’s rise from the tough streets and hip-hop beats to a creed of mercy and forgiveness.

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    Rock of ages

    Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.

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    Harvard Arts Medalist named

    Composer, baritone saxophonist, and activist Fred Ho ’79 will be honored by Harvard University as the fall 2009 recipient of the Harvard Arts Medal on Nov. 13. He will perform in a tribute concert with the Harvard Jazz Bands on Nov. 14.

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    What a set of pipes

    Over the next few years two new organs will take the place of the iconic C.B. Fisk organ in Appleton Chapel. The solution will help the church solve a long-standing musical dilemma.

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    Music and art to accompany fall Harvard Allston Farmer’s Market

    On Sept. 25, the market will host a number of local musicians and artists from 3-7 p.m. to ring in the fall while displaying some of the season’s best crops.

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    Leon Kirchner; Harvard teacher wrote bold, daring music, won Pulitzer; at 90

    Leon Kirchner came to Harvard in 1961, after teaching at Mills College, and eventually assumed an endowed chair previously held by the composer Walter Piston.

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    The sound of summer music

    The musically inclined are drawn to Harvard from near and far each summer. They come together to create the sound of music through Harvard’s Summer School ensembles.

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    Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music now available at Loeb Music Library

    Turkish-born businessman Altan Ender Güzey has ensured the traditional music from the Republic of Turkey is kept alive for future generations with a donation of the Sema Vakf Collection of Turkish Classical Music to the Loeb Music Library.

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    The sound of music

    Students perform and perfect their talents as they tap into a Harvard tradition.

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    Department of Music’s Marvin set to retire after the school year

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA) and the Harvard University Department of Music have announced that Jameson Marvin will retire as director of choral activities at Harvard.

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    ‘The Donkey Show’ kicks off a first season for Diane Paulus

    Harvard’s new American Repertory Theater director Diane Paulus ’88 takes a classic Shakespeare comedy for a spin on the disco floor with “The Donkey Show.”

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    Impressions of women

    More than ever, the Harvard Art Museum is making it easier for scholars and students to use its permanent collection (more than 250,000 works) to shed light on a variety of disciplines.

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    Donald James Martino

    At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 21, 2008, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Donald James Martino, Walter Bigelow Rosen Professor of Music, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Martino was one of the leading American composers of the twentieth century.

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    Physics for musical masses

    Harvard physicist Lisa Randall is taking Paris’ operagoing public to the fifth dimension this month, working with a composer and artist to present an opera that incorporates Randall’s theories about extra dimensions of space.

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    Highlights from a memorable Commencement

    On June 4, administrators sighed with relief at the weather, speakers went over their notes, and graduates congregated in black-tasseled flocks alongside a rainbow of professors in their own caps and gowns. Meanwhile, the Harvard Gazette staff fanned out across the campus on Commencement day to pick a rainbow of their own — colorful accounts…

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    Mohan Sundararaj of HSPH harnesses the power of music to heal

    It was 1998 and Mohan Sundararaj was frustrated. A medical student at India’s Sri Ramachandra Medical College and the child of two physicians, Sundararaj was committed to his medical education but frustrated by the demands that kept him from his other passion: the piano.

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    Harvard Department of Music announces $226,000 in fellowships

    The Music Department’s Oscar S. Schafer Award is given to students “who have demonstrated unusual ability and enthusiasm in their teaching of introductory courses, which are designed to lead students to a growing and lifelong love of music.” This year’s recipients are David Sullivan and Karola Obermüller.

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    2008-09: A look back

    As Commencement closes another chapter of the Harvard story, here is a brief backward glance at highlights of the year that was.

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    For the 20th straight year, the peal of bells will mark Commencement

    A joyous peal of bells will ring throughout Cambridge today (June 4). In celebration of the city of Cambridge and of the country’s oldest university — and of our earlier history when bells of varying tones summoned us from sleep to prayer, work, or study — this ancient yet new sound will fill Harvard Square…

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    Sobering poems, more sobering oration mark PBK

    Harvard’s Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) chapter first met in 1781, two years before the end of the Revolutionary War.

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