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Despite being steeped in two centuries??€™ worth of tradition and history, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has adapted to its new leadership with surprising musical ease. Federico Cortese’s debut concert with HRO on Saturday night featured an ambitious program of Berlioz, Debussy, and Tchaikovsky; its success confirmed that the departure of longtime music director Dr. James Yannatos has not compromised the musical and technical standards of the ensemble...
...With almost four centuries??€™ worth of experience and a pantheon of brilliant graduates, it can be easy to anoint this institution, and to thus accept its occasional indictments as gospel. I would submit this resignation becomes still much easier to do when Harvard has not had much in the way of criticism for us—how dare we question a system that has so rewarded...
Almost every student at Harvard has his or her extracurricular activity: Some participate in cultural groups, others write for publications, and still others work within our many political organizations. All of these organizations are either funded—many of them amply—by centuries??€™ old endowments, by the $260,000 in student group grants that the Undergraduate Council provides each year, or by fundraisers such as dances and movie nights. And for the large percentage of students who compete on Harvard’s 41 varsity athletic teams, the Department of Athletics is the source...
Outside of a group of devoted fans of early music—a genre that encompasses all European musical production between the 15th and 18th centuries??€”most Bostonians probably fail to realize that they inhabit not only the early music capital of America, but also one of the early music centers of the world. They may have heard of the venerable Boston Early Music Festival (BEMF), but probably don’t realize it is the only early music festival in America, as well as the largest and most elaborate celebration of its kind in the world...
...Boyden Gray ’64, the White House counsel to former President George H.W. Bush, has pressured Harvard on this issue as well. He says Summers’ efforts at administrative centralization seem logical despite over three centuries??€™ worth of tradition...