Arts & Culture

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

Large enough to cover its player’s face like a mask, this ocarina was probably used for parades.

Treasure | March-April 2016

Mesoamerican Notes

New music from ancient instruments

by Lydialyle Gibson

Students |

The Toots of Love

The Harvard Band brings Valentine’s greetings.

by Bailey Trela

Arts & Culture |

A Balancing Act

Acrobat Nico Maffey ’13 performs in Pippin.

by Laura Levis

Portrait of Yosvany Terry

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2016

Harvard Portrait: Yosvany Terry

A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.

by Sophia Nguyen

Montage | January-February 2016

Lost in Ideas

Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work

by Lydialyle Gibson

Lei Liang

Montage | January-February 2016

Hearing History

After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Harvard Squared | January-February 2016

Raising the Barre

A long-time Cambridge arts organization is poised to grow.

by Nell Porter Brown

Harvard Squared | January-February 2016

Ubu Abounds

A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi

by Nell Porter Brown

A veteran's daughter visits with her father.

Performing & Recorded Arts |

A Grammar of Pain

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman

Benjamin Scheuer playing one of the six instruments he uses in the course of his one-man musical, The Lion

Montage | November-December 2015

The Lion’s Share

In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.

by Laura Levis