Tag: Music

  • Campus & Community

    Bells mark Commencement

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

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  • 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.

    2–3 minutes
  • 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…

    4–7 minutes
  • 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.

    1–2 minutes
  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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

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  • Campus & Community

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

    Richard Beaudoin, Lecturer on Music

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  • 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.

    2–3 minutes
  • 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.

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  • Campus & Community

    Get ready, think big

    Ten of Harvard’s great minds gathered at Sanders Theatre on Thursday (Feb. 17) for the second annual Harvard Thinks Big, a student-organized discussion in which 10 speakers each took 10 minutes to explore a topic near and dear to their hearts.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Shakira named Artist of the Year

    Renowned Colombian singer, songwriter, and philanthropist Shakira has been named the 2011 Artist of the Year by the Harvard Foundation of Harvard University.

    2–3 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    With the band

    Karen Woodward Massey, director of education and outreach at FAS Research Administration Services (RAS), has always needed a creative outlet from her “right-brain” work. From ingénue roles to a staff cover band, the Grateful Deadlines, one thing remains the same: She has a ton of fun along the way.

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  • Campus & Community

    Administrator by day, singer by night

    Karen Woodward Massey, director of education and outreach at FAS Research Administration Services (RAS), has always needed a creative outlet from her “right-brain” work. From ingénue roles to a staff cover band, the Grateful Deadlines, one thing remains the same: She has a ton of fun along the way.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Faculty Council meeting held Dec. 1

    A summary of the Faculty Council meeting held on Dec. 1.

    1–2 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Choral director honors tradition

    Harvard’s Holden Choirs use one word to describe their new director, Andrew Clark: energy. Clark and Kevin Leong conduct a holiday concert at 8 p.m. Dec. 10.

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  • Campus & Community

    Harvard Overseer to perform at Nobel ceremony

    Harvard Board of Overseers member and virtuoso violinist Lynn Chang ’75 was selected by the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Committee to perform at the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize ceremonies in Oslo, Norway, on Dec. 10.

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  • Arts & Culture

    Hip-hop Harvard

    A new book, “The Anthology of Rap,” celebrates the lyricism of rap and has earned its place in the Hiphop Archive at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research.

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  • Campus & Community

    Three scholars recognized for music contributions

    Three scholars from Harvard’s Music Department received prizes at the Society for Ethnomusicology conference in Los Angeles in early November.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Queen of Soul — and body

    Author and Radcliffe Fellow Daphne Brooks discussed Aretha Franklin’s role as a feminist icon in a lecture at the Radcliffe Gymnasium.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Overjoyed

    Taking his audience on a musical journey through time, Harvard music professor Thomas Kelly explored the first performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony at the Harvard Allston Education Portal.

    3–5 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Field goals

    Chris LeRoy ’11 is enjoying his first season as a starter — one who “has developed into an All-Ivy caliber player,” according to his coach.

    2–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Reinhold Brinkmann, musicologist, 76

    Reinhold Brinkmann, a distinguished scholar whose writings on music of the 19th and 20th centuries made an indelible mark on musicology in Germany and the United States, died on Oct. 10, after a long illness, in Eckernförde, Germany. He was 76.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    The soaring sounds of music

    Harvard’s newest professor of composition explores the limits of musical expression with her works and hopes to steer students to their own musical voices.

    3–4 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Hard science, soft verse

    Ron Spalletta, whose first poem has just been published, is a clerkship manager at Harvard Medical School.

    2–3 minutes
  • Campus & Community

    Audition for Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus

    The 180-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus is holding auditions for all voice parts on Sept. 4 and 5.

    1–2 minutes
  • Arts & Culture

    Oberon is so on

    Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s sister theater space, is turning up the volume with its summer schedule.

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