The ‘Sun of Latin Jazz’ rises at the OfA
Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and bandleader Eddie Palmieri, dubbed the “Sun of Latin Jazz,” was honored by the University April 11-14. Presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA)...
View ArticleStudy abroad program sings
This summer, five Harvard College students exchanged dorm life for West African village life to investigate the role of music and dance in Malian culture. As participants in Harvard’s summer...
View ArticlePair of music professors to collaborate on improvisation project
Headed by University of Guelph English professor Ajay Heble, the international “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” project recently secured a $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences and...
View ArticleUndergrads spend summer studying international law, child soldiers
Trevor Bakker ’10 spent this summer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s first permanent war crimes court. The Kirkland House resident followed the joint trial of Germain...
View ArticleA New Literary History of America
This compilation of original essays features a myriad of voices from Harvard. Ingrid Monson, Peter Sacks, Cass Sunstein, Helen Vendler, and others take on Americana’s finest: porn, country music, and...
View ArticleHip-hop’s global reach
The global dimensions of hip-hop, a thriving subculture of art, music, and dance, was at the heart of a two-day Harvard panel last week aimed at helping educators use the genre as a teaching tool in...
View ArticleAdrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical...
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All that jazz
When Tom Everett arrived at Harvard in 1971, he was wide-eyed to find that the University lacked a connection to one of America’s greatest art forms. “I was so surprised that there was no jazz activity...
View ArticleBanner year ahead
The arriving members of the Class of 2015 weren’t the only new additions brightening the Yard in the final days of August. Strollers in the center of campus might also have noticed a series of...
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Let there be music
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said that music was “to the soul what a water bath is to the body.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow called it “the universal language of mankind,” and T.S. Eliot even suggested,...
View ArticleA work supreme
To open a recent discussion on one of jazz’s all-time greats, John Coltrane, and his famous album “A Love Supreme,” Homi Bhabha invoked the name of another celebrated saxophonist, one with Harvard...
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Disruptive music
A musical visionary took the stage at the Radcliffe gymnasium on Monday. His innovations, said Harvard Professor and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow Ingrid Monson, are on a par with those...
View ArticleThe ‘Sun of Latin Jazz’ rises at the OfA
Grammy Award-winning pianist, composer, and bandleader Eddie Palmieri, dubbed the “Sun of Latin Jazz,” was honored by the University April 11-14. Presented by the Office for the Arts at Harvard (OfA)...
View ArticleStudy abroad program sings
This summer, five Harvard College students exchanged dorm life for West African village life to investigate the role of music and dance in Malian culture. As participants in Harvard’s summer...
View ArticlePair of music professors to collaborate on improvisation project
Headed by University of Guelph English professor Ajay Heble, the international “Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice” project recently secured a $2.5 million grant from the Social Sciences...
View ArticleUndergrads spend summer studying international law, child soldiers
Trevor Bakker ’10 spent this summer at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the world’s first permanent war crimes court. The Kirkland House resident followed the joint trial of Germain...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A New Literary History of America
This compilation of original essays features a myriad of voices from Harvard. Ingrid Monson, Peter Sacks, Cass Sunstein, Helen Vendler, and others take on Americana’s finest: porn, country music, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hip-hop’s global reach
The global dimensions of hip-hop, a thriving subculture of art, music, and dance, was at the heart of a two-day Harvard panel last week aimed at helping educators use the genre as a teaching tool in...
View ArticleAdrian Staehli named Loeb Professor of Classical Archaeology
Archaeologist Adrian Staehli, whose work has challenged conventional interpretations of nudity and the human body in ancient Greek and Roman art, has been named James Loeb Professor of Classical...
View ArticleClik here to view.
All that jazz
When Tom Everett arrived at Harvard in 1971, he was wide-eyed to find that the University lacked a connection to one of America’s greatest art forms. “I was so surprised that there was no jazz...
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