Tag: New York Philharmonic

  • Nation & World

    ‘I want to make it felt’

    Yo-Yo Ma and Deborah Borda of the New York Philharmonic discuss music as a force for social justice.

    4 minutes
    Yo-Yo Ma holds up a cello bow.
  • Nation & World

    Learning from a legend (a.k.a. Dad)

    Jamie Bernstein remembered her father by heart during a visit to Harvard to discuss centennial celebrations of the legendary maestro’s life and legacy.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A voice for creative leadership

    Since August, Deborah Borda has been a Hauser Leader-in-Residence at the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School, where she has been sharing her passion for the arts and imparting life lessons to leaders-in-training.

    6 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The mystery of Mahler

    American audiences quickly embraced the Austrian composer and conductor Gustav Mahler when he moved to the United States, and to a surprising degree, lecturer Federico Cortese told an Ed Portal audience.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    GSAS student joins worldwide discussion

    Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences student Matthew Mugmon will be one of seven panelists convened by the New York Philharmonic for a worldwide, online discussion on Harvard alumni Leonard Bernstein’s groundbreaking tours to the former Soviet Union, Japan, Europe, and South America.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Symphonies and salsa

    In late May and early June the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra traveled to Cuba for a series of concerts in Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, and Havana.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Child prodigies, maybe

    Study suggests our assumptions about natural talent can influence our judgments, overlooking and undervaluing the impact of hard work.

    4 minutes