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For the Joy of It
A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.
9.1.09
Musical Mentor
Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.
9.1.09
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
5.1.09
Pardis Sabeti
For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.
5.1.09
Song for Hard Times
The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.
5.1.09
Advice on Art and Life from Yo-Yo Ma
The cello virtuoso speaks to students interested in arts careers, and President Faust announces progress on arts offerings.
2.9.09
Chiara String Quartet
The Chiara String Quartet are Harvard’s current Blodgett Artists-in-Residence.
1.1.09
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book…
10.23.08
An Argument for Music
Critic Alex Ross keeps “classical” music current…
7.1.08
Two Musical Neighborhoods
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven’s Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation…
7.1.08
Thoroughly Eclectic
Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela’s Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)…
7.1.08
150 Years of Glee
During its first international tour, in 1921, the Harvard Glee Club inspired French composers Francis Poulenc and Darius Milhaud to write new…
3.1.08
Stirred, Shaken, and Sung
At the end of Pink Martini’s Carnegie Hall debut this past June, a conga line broke out in the audience and bounced its way up and down…