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Wolff, who has spent 27 years at Harvard, is widely recognized for his scholarship on Bach and Mozart and has served in numerous faculty governance roles, including a nine-year term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that ended...
...first step toward fixing the problem is to recognize how dramatically things have changed. People need to downscale their expectations and recognize that the phenomenal returns of the 1990s were the aberration. David Bach, a New York City financial planner and the author of the best-selling Smart Couples Finish Rich, recalls the types of meetings he would have with investors just three years ago. "We'd meet with people who brought along planning proposals from our competitors, and they'd plugged in 18% yearly returns," says Bach. "For a while it was possible to back-test a hypothetical portfolio...
...biologist and philosopher Lewis Thomas was asked what record of human achievements he would launch into space to be discovered one day by some transgalactic civilization. A continual broadcast of Bach would do, Thomas suggested, though "that would be boasting...
...make it a music video? A Bach fugue over Tiger hitting those miraculous irons from the deep rough onto the greens at Bethpage Black. Nah. The aliens will think we did it all with computer graphics...
Nearly every weekend Harvard kiosques parade poster advertisements for classical music events and concerts. The dynamic performance environment includes the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), originally known as the Pierian Sodality of 1808, which holds sold-out performances in Sanders theatre. In addition to the HRO there is the Bach Society Orchestra (BachSoc) (founded 1954), the Mozart Society Orchestra (founded 1984), the Collegium Musicum, the Glee Club, the Radcliffe Chorus Society and scores of student organized chamber groups. Any sort of musical talent is bound to find a satisfying outlet at Harvard. Who are the students who make up these groups...