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Ballerinas dance as snowflakes in "Nutcracker Ballet."

Like it or not, it’s ‘Nutcracker’ season

Harvard-Radcliffe conductor Federico Cortese on the history, melody, and ubiquity of a holiday classic

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DateDecember 14, 2018January 9, 2019

Arts First festival celebrates Harvard’s creative community

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DateApril 14, 2016

“The theatrical gestures of Mahler, the rich orchestration — this all appealed to American tastes, so Mahler may seem strangely familiar to American audiences in terms of sound,” said Federico Cortese, senior lecturer on music and director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

The mystery of Mahler

America embraced the Austrian composer and conductor to a surprising degree, lecturer tells Ed Portal audience

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DateApril 24, 2015March 8, 2019

On campus to receive the Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, which is administered by the Learning from Performers Program of the Office for the Arts, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Music Director Marin Alsop (left) also engaged in a wide-ranging and entertaining conversation with Dean of Arts and Humanities Diana Sorensen (right).

Breaking musical barriers

Alsop reflects on road to helm of Baltimore Symphony Orchestra

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DateMarch 26, 2015

Matt Aucoin '12 has been engulfed in an intense love affair with music since the age of 6. While at Harvard, Aucoin blazed his own artistic trail. An English concentrator, he wrote and directed two operas, including “Hart Crane,” and served as poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, even winning a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for his poetry thesis, "Aftermusic."

A maestro and a wordsmith

Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music

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DateMay 17, 2012July 22, 2019

Annemarie Ryu '13 (from left) a pre-med anthropology concentrator and veteran Harvard public service traveler, has started Global Village Fruits, a for-profit social enterprise she hopes will connect jackfruit farmers in southern India with American consumers. Here, she is seen with co-researchers Kara Kubaryeh '13 and Devon Williams '11 during a study inside the Greenhouse Cafe.

Student’s aim: A harvest of good

Importing jackfruit could create markets, help Indian farmers

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DateFebruary 16, 2012May 15, 2019

Harvard undergraduates have a long tradition of making their own music, with new outlets for their talents and interests being added all the time. Students participate in more than 50 musical groups, ranging from the Mozart Society Orchestra to Mariachi Véritas de Harvard (pictured). The registrar’s office says that more than 20 percent of undergraduates list music as a valued extracurricular activity.

Let there be music

Harvard resonates to 'the universal language of mankind'

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DateFebruary 15, 2012May 16, 2019

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

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DateFebruary 14, 2012February 13, 2018

Yannatos memorial on Dec. 10

James Yannatos was leader of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for 45 years

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DateNovember 15, 2011

A memorial tribute for James Yannatos, leader of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for more than 45 years, will be held at 3 p.m. Dec 10 in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.

James Yannatos, conductor, 82

Was leader of Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for 45 years

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DateOctober 31, 2011

Three of the University’s major arts positions have changed hands. Andrew Clark (from left), Harvard’s director of choral activities, Jill Johnson, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts Dance Program, and Federico Cortese, director of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra "represent the next generation of leadership in arts practice at Harvard,” said Jack Megan, director of the OFA.

New era for the arts

Three fresh leaders usher in dance and music ensembles during 375th celebrations

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DateOctober 7, 2011May 31, 2019

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra director Federico Cortese (left) works with students at the Escuela de Arte Benny Moré in Cienfuegos, Cuba.

Symphonies and salsa

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra tours, plays in Cuba

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DateJune 30, 2011June 26, 2019

“My work does not yield itself to offering its meaning in a 10-minute span. I am offering something way more complicated, and it takes a long time to digest,” said Peter Sellars '81, who spoke to Harvard students on April 5.

A musical education

Students learn from, and perform, John Adams’ opera

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DateApril 21, 2011March 13, 2019

Choral director honors tradition

New leader looks to the past for fresh performing ideas

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DateDecember 2, 2010March 12, 2019

Samuel Bjork '10, a chemistry concentrator who lives in Eliot House, is one of 35 new Marshall Scholars nationwide.

Bjork named Marshall Scholar

Chemistry concentrator plans to work toward an M.Phil. at Cambridge University

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DateDecember 1, 2009

In brief

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DateDecember 4, 2008

Newsmakers

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DateJune 7, 2007

Haimovitz to play Yannatos concerto

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DateApril 12, 2007