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...asked to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 to help design a program to finance reductions in carbon emissions. Sandor remembers the time fondly. "It reminded me of my days at Berkeley," he says. "There was more tie-dye than at a Grateful Dead concert. I was sitting on the beach and having a caipirinha, and I said, 'We could do this...
...movement. The orchestra’s last performance on campus will be held during Arts First weekend, when it will also face stiff competition from other formidable musical rivals. Music director Yannatos will have to find the right pieces to attract a sizable audience worthy enough for the last concert of the HRO’s 200th year...
Jazz has long served as a site of cultural integration, and monday’s Ethio-Jazz concert in Sanders Theater was no different, using jazz fusion as a lens to examine the changing nature of the Ethiopian American identity in a rapidly globalizing world. This performance by the Either/Orchestra, featuring the compositions of Mulatu Astatke, concluded two days of presentations and panel discussions on Cultural Creativity in the Ethiopian American Diaspora. The fusion of Ethiopian traditional music with the already diverse language of jazz provided a fitting conclusion to the weekend.The conference opened with a keynote conversation between...
...existence, few devote substantial time or serious attention to either its study or its performance. But the quote is not a description of the current jazz scene: it comes from a 1974 article by Jim Cramer ’77 in these pages, reviewing a Harvard Jazz Band concert with trombonists Phil Wilson and Carl Fontana. And although Cramer, who would be come The Crimson’s president, expressed hope that “Monday night’s concert will signal the beginning of Harvard’s sprint to overtake the rest of the collegiate runners...
...university level. “People think the music is just simple and about tequila, but it’s very complicated and hard to perform well,” says Musical Director Nathaniel Naddaff-Hafrey ’08, who is a former Crimson arts associate. At a concert in Lowell Lecture Hall tomorrow, the group will be performing a variety of huapangos, sones, rancheras, and boleros, all of which have different rhythmic feels and tones. It will also feature a number of “all-star” guest singers of varied musical backgrounds, who will perform...