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Music
Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass
Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.
8.15.14
Extracurriculars
Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events
8.15.14
A Harmonious Revolution
Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.
7.31.14
The TMEC Performers
The Tosteson Medical Education Center student performers
7.31.14
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” Stirs Controversy at Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.
6.19.14
Harpsichords Extraordinaire
Two keyboards, each with a story to tell
6.16.14
Funkin’ It Up
Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.
6.16.14
Joyful Noise
Harvard’s Collegium Musicum celebrates the power of music as therapy.
5.6.14
Music as Predictor of Social Change
French economist Jacques Attali discusses music as a metaphor for civil society.
4.24.14
Raw Wood Sings
Bob Childs makes world-class violins.
4.11.14
The Intoxication of Celebrity
Leonard Bernstein’s life, in his letters
4.11.14
Toward Cultural Citizenship
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
4.11.14
“Hearing Through the Body”
Through cat telephones and electronic dance music, scholars discuss the physical basis of sound.
2.25.14
Wynton Marsalis on the Soul of Jazz
The bandleader weaves performance and storytelling to paint a picture of jazz in nineteenth-century New Orleans.