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Yannatos suggests that Blacks may be under-represented in Harvard instrumental groups because the national pool of Black classical musicians is small, but he is reluctant to speculate on why that is so. "It would be very easy to say that [classical instrumental music] is not part of their tradition...
However, Garraway says, "Classical music isn't as pronounced in Black culture [as some genres]. Blacks are really a very musical people, but in their own unique way."
He would, in other words, seem to embody the notion of a crossover artist. With his jazz background, he calls up visions of the Third Stream, that brief confluence of jazz and classical music long thought dried up. In works like Black, Brown and Beige, Duke Ellington bravely but cautiously...
As such, he represents one of the salient trends in modern American music, the fusion of the pop vernacular with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to...
IN an October 10, 1986 speech in Sanders Theater during Harvard's 350th anniversary celebration, Secretary of Education William Bennett labelled the Core Curriculum a "smorgasbord." He advocated a more structured plan which would steep undergraduates in numerous courses covering "The classical and Jewish-Christian heritage, the roots of American...