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...half-hour allotted for tea and cookies before the meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences lost some of its luster yesterday. Instead of the thick, glossy paper typically used for the minutes of the past month’s Faculty meeting, the most recent documents stacked on the tables were printed on conventional thin stock. “Today is the last day you’ll see a wide variety of printed material available to us in the Faculty meeting,” FAS Dean Michael D. Smith said in his first piece of news regarding...
...violinists were Shiyu Wei ’10 and Shuang Wu ’11, and their concert was a part of the ongoing Student Music Performance Series, organized by the Harvard Arts Museums Education Department. They performed Bach, Vivaldi, Bartók, and Telemann in galleries devoted to the “Western Tradition, Antiquity to 1900.” On five more Friday afternoons this spring, Harvard student musicians will hold hour-long performances with various pieces suited to different galleries of the Sackler. The series aims not only to inform the viewing of visual art from...
...which it’s about learning, and there’s another way in which it’s about relaxing,” Director of Education for HAM Ray Williams says. While the works performed are chosen specifically to provide musical context for the art in specific galleries, the careful matching of “culture and period” in both genres is not the only goal of the project. As part of a larger initiative in the department to enhance “connections to the student community,” Williams and his colleagues...
...Along the same lines, the department is “preparing some study break programming during reading week [including] sketching, yoga...art talks and mak[ing] cookies to remind people that the museum can be a place to come for relaxation and nourishment,” Williams says...
...only ones to appreciate the performance. When asked about the unique experience, Wu noted that it was “more relaxed than a formal performance in front of a lot of people.” Wei felt indebted to Janet M. Sartor, Public Programs Coordinator of Harvard Art Museums, who urged Wu to try out at the open audition...