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March-April 2006
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ExtracurricularsSavor the sunshine and dabble in a variety of activities in and around Harvard Square this spring, ranging from a string of orchestral concerts and choral performances to acclaimed Russian films and exhibits of eclectic photomontages and vibrant watercolors. SEASONAL Mozart Celebration http://hcs.harvard.edu/bachsoc/performances.html Paine Hall • March 4, 8 p.m. The Bach Society Orchestra celebrates the 250th birthday of Mozart by performing his Symphony No. 40 in G minor as well as Sinfonietta No. 1, a tribute to him, by Hector Villa-Lobos. Spring Sing 617-496-2222; Sanders Theatre • March 10, 8 p.m. The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society present their “Spring Tour Preview: From Canny to Uncanny,” music from the Renaissance to the present.
Harvard Krokodiloes • March 17, 8 p.m. 617-496-2222; Sanders Theatre The a cappella group celebrates its sixtieth anniversary with a gala public concert featuring the current ensemble as well as alumni Kroks. Arts First • May 4-7 617-495-8699; arts@fas.harvard.edu. Plan ahead to enjoy the performance fair, dance festival, and colorful parade featuring undergraduate talent. Playwright Christopher Durang ’71 is the 2006 Arts Medalist.
Nature and Science The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics www.cfa.harvard.edu/events.html 617-495-7461. Phillips Auditorium, 60 Garden Street. Stargaze after the lecture (weather permitting) during free observatory nights, on the third Thursday of every month. • March 16, 8 p.m. “The Search for Extraterrestrial Life” • April 20, 8 p.m. “Voyage to the Center of the Milky Way” (Doors open at 7:30; seating is unreserved.) MUSIC Sanders Theatre 617-496-2222 • March 3, 8 p.m. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra offers Respighi’s “Pines of Rome,” Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7, and Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor. • March 4, 8 p.m. The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum performs Mozart’s C Minor Mass with the Orchestra of Emmanuel Music. • April 21, 8 p.m. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky’s “Suite from Swan Lake,” Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, and the Brahms Violin Concerto, featuring Stefan Jackiw ’07. • April 28, 8 p.m. The Harvard-Radcliffe Chorus sings an all-Baroque concert featuring Vivaldi’s “Gloria” and choral music by Handel. • April 30, 7:30 p.m. The Boston Chamber Music Society presents a program that includes pieces by Ravel, Mahler, and Schubert.
Lowell Lecture Hall • March 3, 7:30 p.m. The Kuumba Singers of Harvard offer “Soul Speak: Black Arts as Social Dialogue.”
Theater The American Repertory Theatre www.amrep.org; 617-547-8300 • Through March 25 Romeo and Juliet. Renowned Israeli director Gadi Roll makes his debut at the ART with Shakespeare’s classic love story. • March 25-April 23 Orpheus X. Composer Rinde Eckert and director Robert Woodruff present a musical retelling of the legends.
Hasty Pudding Theatricals Zero Arrow Theatre (at the ART) • Through March 19 Set in the 1930s, the Pudding’s 158th show, Some Like It Yacht, unfolds aboard a transatlantic cruise liner that is mysteriously hijacked, leaving its crew of intriguing characters to seek the truth. EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-495-1027 • Opening April 19, 5:30 p.m. A Noble Pursuit: The Duchess of Mecklenburg Collection from Iron Age Slovenia. The exhibit tells the story of an unconventional woman while displaying many of the European artifacts she excavated prior to World War I. A reception follows a 5:30 p.m. lecture by Gloria Polizzotti Greis, author of a book on the topic. • March 16, 5:30 p.m. Diet, Demography,… Society: A 200,000-Year Record from the Mediterranean Basin. Lecture by Mary C. Stiner, associate professor of anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue • March 22, 5:30 p.m. Tesseracts Between Futures and Past: Photography in Modern Korean History, 1900-1953. A reception with and lecture by Hyung Gu Lynn, chair in Korean research, University of British Columbia. Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue • April 12, 5:30 p.m. Isotopic Silk Road. A reception with and lecture by Noreen Tuross, Clay professor of scientific archaeology at Harvard. Yenching Institute, 2 Divinity Avenue Continuing: Reconfiguring Korea showcases former American GI Roger Marshut’s photographs documenting U.S. reconstruction efforts and civilian life in Pusan in the 1950s. Busch-Reisinger Museum 617-495-2317 • March 11-May 21 Tempo, Tempo! The Photomontages of Marianne Brandt. This presentation of more than 30 images from European and American public and private collections showcases the artist’s dynamic pictorial investigations of technology, gender roles, and entertainment culture. Fogg Art Museum 617-495-9400/9422 • Through March 12 French Drawings and Paintings. Approximately 35 eighteenth- and nineteenth-century works are on display for the first time since they were donated to the University Art Museums. • Opening April 8 American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950. For the first time in decades, 50 of Harvard’s most magnificent watercolors go on public display, including images by John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and James McNeill Whistler. Sackler Museum 617-495-9400/9422 Continuing: Frank Stella 1958 features 18 experimental works by one of the nation’s leading postwar artists. Continuing: The Tablet and the Pen: Drawings from the Islamic World explores drawing as an independent artistic medium with a special focus on Iran, India, and Turkey. FILM The Harvard Film Archive Visit the website for complete listings. 617-495-4700 • Mondays in March, 7 p.m. The films of Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, who won international acclaim with Solyaris and Nostalghia. • Mondays in April, 7 p.m. Screenings of the films of Ousmane Sembčne, one of Africa’s best-known directors. Includes Emitai, Xala, and Moolade. • April 21-23 Visiting professor of visual arts and environmental studies Jan Schütte screens and discusses several of his films, including Bye Bye America,The Farewell, and his most recent work, SuperTex. Sanders Theatre • March 3 and 7, 8:15 p.m Premiere of Bachelor’s College, which explores the toll of World War I on a group of young men. It stars Harvard undergraduates and was filmed on campus. Produced by Michael Van Devere. LIBRARIES Countway Medical Library 617-432-4807 • March 1 The Role of Jews in the History of Medicine. Scholars of medieval history and Jewish studies speak at a symposium that highlights the rare Hyams collection of Jewish medical texts, including one of the first printings of Maimonides. The related exhibit is on display through March 3. • March 13 through April 20 Changing the Face of Medicine: Celebrating America’s Women Physicians. www.countway.harvard.edu/rarebooks/awm.shtml; 617-432-6206 This nationally touring exhibit looks at Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to earn an M.D., as well as others who have struggled to gain access to the medical profession during the last 200 years. Houghton Library 617-495-2441 • March 15-May 26 In celebration of the 400th anniversary of the publication of Don Quixote, the exhibition displays a varied selection of the works of Cervantes to be found among Houghton’s holdings. • Through March 18 Disbound and Dispersed showcases 60 “leaf books” with manuscript and printed leaves ranging in date from the twelfth through the twentieth centuries. • March 30-May 26 Of Current Interest: Recent Research on Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts highlights manuscripts that have been cited in scholarly literature in recent years and demonstrates the study of the humanities during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Pusey Library 617-495-2413 • Through March 31 Mapping California as an Island features a selection of French, Dutch, German and English maps and atlases, including the first depiction, in 1622, of the west coast of North America. • Through April 21 British Theatrical Caricatures from Hogarth to Cruikshank showcases the lively disputes, scandals, and personalities of the British stage as satirized in 100 prints by renowned eighteenth-century artists and their lesser-known contemporaries. LECTURES The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study www.radcliffe.edu; 617-495-8212 • March 14, 4 p.m. “Flights from Attack and Atrocity: The Impact of War-Induced Violence against Women,” by Irene Khan, secretary general of Amnesty International. Cronkhite living room, 6 Ash Street • April 6, 4:30 p.m. “Gender, Genes, and Genesis,”by Columbia Law School professor Patricia Williams. Askwith Lecture Hall, Radcliffe Yard Events listings also appear in the University Gazette.  
 
 
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