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I recently bought Angelique Kidjo’s latest CD, Oyaya. For the first few weeks, I couldn’t stop listening to it! Angelique is a West African singer from Benin. I’ve enjoyed her music for a while now, but her last CD is especially...
A far more elaborate synthesis of existing sources of geographic knowledge informs the spectacular Catalan Atlas, commissioned by the crown prince of Aragon as a present for the 13-year-old Charles VI of France in 1375. The work of Cresques Abraham, the "master of maps and compasses" of the...
Nobody disputes Caravaggio's immense achievement. Yet it's hard not to wonder what he might have accomplished if he had lived into old age - say 45? As a young man he amassed a police record worthy of a rap star: arrests, citations, imprisonments, most of them connected to brawls...
Buswell’s formidable skills were developed during his Harvard years, where he made his musical presence known on campus. In addition to performing with both the Bach Society Orchestra and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Buswell was a founding member of Music 180r, a popular performance class still offered...
Nevertheless, he discovers in his Harvard students a “wonderful crispness, quickness of mind, which I greatly appreciate as a teacher.” Buswell may no longer wander the Yard, but his legacy in the Harvard classical community is undeniable.