Tag: ” “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music

  • Arts & Culture

    Wynton Marsalis makes a return engagement

    Wynton Marsalis shares the stage with President Drew Faust to celebrate the release of his video, based on a lecture series he started at Harvard in 2011.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Trumpet and coffee in hand

    Capping his lauded Harvard lectureship, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” musician Wynton Marsalis visited the Phillips Brooks House for an intimate conversation about his hometown of New Orleans.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Marsalis returns to Sanders

    Wynton Marsalis is returning to Harvard to continue his two-year lecture series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music,” with a talk on improvisation at Sanders Theatre on April 17.

    3–4 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The melding of American music

    Backed by an all-star band, Wynton Marsalis explored the “mulatto identity of our national music” with a rollicking performance and a thoughtful lecture on America’s porous tuneful genres at Sanders Theatre Feb. 6.

    4–7 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Marsalis in motion

    Before a rapt audience at Sanders Theatre, jazz great Wynton Marsalis explored the history of American dance in the second lecture in a two-year series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music.”

    2–3 minutes