1.0Harvard Gazettehttps://news.harvard.edu/gazettegazetteimporthttps://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/author/gazetteimport/rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="FvKeUkJjRT"><a href="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/02/the-big-picture-31/">The Big Picture</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2004/02/the-big-picture-31/embed/#?secret=FvKeUkJjRT" width="600" height="338" title="“The Big Picture” — Harvard Gazette" data-secret="FvKeUkJjRT" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://news.harvard.edu/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js </script> Describing mezzo-soprano Carolann Buff as a singer hardly does justice to the many roles she juggles. In addition to the duties that fall to any professional musician - balancing budgets, managing publicity, coordinating recording sessions - she spends plenty of her free time doing research in Loeb Music Library, where she works part time as a staff assistant. Thats because Buffs musical passion is whats called historically informed performance of the vocal music of the medieval and Renaissance periods. Since 1996, she and two former classmates from the nearby Longy School of Music have brought early music to audiences around the world as the vocal trio Liber unUsualis.https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/wp-content/uploads/2004/02/05-bigpic1-450-2.jpg