Tag: Music

  • Arts & Culture

    The Nostalgics, a Harvard Motown band

    One of the many student-led musical groups on campus, The Nostalgics keep a Detroit sound tradition alive as Harvard’s Motown and soul band.

  • Arts & Culture

    Mariachi Véritas de Harvard

    Created in 2001, Mariachi Véritas de Harvard is a student-run group that focuses exclusively on the mariachi musical tradition.

  • Arts & Culture

    Harvard Gregorian Chant

    Members of the Harvard community gather regularly in the basement of the Memorial Church for an informal hour of Gregorian chant singing under the guidance of Thomas Kelly, Morton B. Knafel Professor of Music.

  • Arts & Culture

    Madison Greer, solo artist

    During her time at Harvard, Jazz singer and junior Madison Greer has developed her skills in music theory and music performance and learned how to “front” a band.

  • Campus & Community

    John Legend is Artist of the Year

    Recording artist, concert performer, and philanthropist John Legend has been named Harvard University’s 2012 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation.

  • Arts & Culture

    Notes on music’s lessons

    At Harvard as part of an ongoing lecture and performance series, musician and composer Wynton Marsalis met with the Harvard community for two far-reaching discussions in which music and the arts played seminal roles.

  • 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.

  • Science & Tech

    Taste test

    Using friendship data collected from Facebook, Harvard sociologists have found that people who share similar interests in music and movies are more likely to befriend one another, but that very few interests are likely to spread among friends.

  • Campus & Community

    Easy like Lionel Richie

    Singer Lionel Richie visits Harvard to receive the Harvard Foundation’s inaugural Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award, dining with undergraduates and recalling his career.

  • Campus & Community

    Hello, Lionel Richie!

    Distinguished singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer Lionel Richie will receive the 2011 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award from the Harvard Foundation on Dec. 5 at Kirkland House.

  • Health

    Worming out of listening

    A freshman seminar helps students to understand Darwin by reading his works and re-creating 10 experiments — including one showing that the wiggly creatures just don’t hear.

  • Campus & Community

    Organist wins music battle

    Harvard’s Associate University Organist and Choirmaster Christian Lane was recently named the winner of the prestigious 2011 triennial Canadian International Organ Competition.

  • Campus & Community

    Yannatos memorial on Dec. 10

    A memorial service for composer and conductor James Yannatos will be held on Dec. 10 in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre.

  • Campus & Community

    James Yannatos, conductor, 82

    Composer and conductor James Yannatos, who as leader of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra for more than 45 years worked with thousands of young musicians, died at his home in Cambridge on Oct. 19 from complications of cancer. He was 82.

  • Arts & Culture

    Settling scores

    The famously detailed scores of conductor Sir Georg Solti will now live at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library — and soon on the Web. A reception celebrated a new exhibit of his work, as well as the visit of Solti’s widow and the collection’s donor, Lady Solti.

  • Arts & Culture

    Of the bean I sing

    A Radcliffe Fellow is working on an opera about the world’s love affair with coffee and how it grew from the bean that made goats jittery to the potion we all get jittery for.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees

    Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was selected to speak during the Afternoon Exercises, is among the nine to receive honorary degrees, which includes Ruth Bader Ginsburg (pictured), during Harvard’s 360th Commencement on May 26.

  • Campus & Community

    Bells mark Commencement

    For 23 years, they have rung out across Cambridge in Harvard’s honor, marking the conclusion of Morning Exercises.

  • Campus & Community

    Pianist on the rise

    Charlie Albright — “among the most gifted musicians of his generation,” according to The Washington Post — has excelled in Harvard’s joint program with the New England Conservatory and is on track to receive a master’s of music in piano performance next year.

  • Campus & Community

    Reinhold Brinkmann

    Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, taught in the Department of Music at Harvard University from 1985 until his retirement in 2003, serving, after 1990, as James Edward Ditson Professor of Music and, from…

  • Arts & Culture

    Jazz at Harvard

    Harvard sophomore Andrew Kennard discusses his love of jazz and his experience mentoring students at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School, preparing with them for the arrival of Wynton Marsalis at Harvard.

  • Campus & Community

    OFA awards 8 students for artistic excellence

    The Office for the Arts at Harvard and the Council on the Arts at Harvard, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, have announced the recipients of the annual undergraduate arts prizes for 2011.

  • Arts & Culture

    Photographer to receive Arts Medal

    Photographer Susan Meiselas, Ed.M. ’71, will receive the 2011 Harvard Arts Medal, as part of Harvard’s annual Arts First weekend, which runs April 28-May 1.

  • Campus & Community

    ‘Arise, My People’

    The Kuumba Singers of Harvard College will lift up the voices of black spirituality and creativity at the 41st Annual Dean Archie C. Epps Spring Concert, “Arise, My People,” on April 16.

  • Campus & Community

    How inviting!

    The Common Spaces Chairs Project has returned those colorful chairs to the Yard and booked events through the month of April.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Dudley House Co-op

    Before the Dudley Co-operative Society was founded in 1958 as alternative housing for Harvard undergraduates, it was a bed and breakfast where Teddy Roosevelt and Henry Cabot Lodge are reported to have slept.

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Thinks Big 2: “From Eye to Mind: Affirming the Union of Science and Art” – Robert Lue

    Robert Lue, Professor of the Practice of Molecular and Cellular Biology; Tutor in Biochemical Sciences; Director of Life Sciences Education

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Thinks Big 2: “Experiencing Time in Music” – Richard Beaudoin

    Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music

  • Arts & Culture

    Notes from underground

    Historian and former Quincy House tutor John McMillian’s new book chronicles the massive ’60s “youthquake” and the rise of radical underground publications.

  • Campus & Community

    A look inside: Winthrop House

    Winthrop House residents crowded into the House Junior Common Room on a recent Sunday night to attend the inaugural Winthrop Winter Showcase. An impressive array of performances ensued, with dance dominating the evening.