Iconoclastic Music Educator
Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.
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Music
Music, Noted
The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West
10.15.14
Spotlight
Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
10.15.14
Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces
Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach
10.7.14
Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
10.1.14
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.