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...will make the journey that proved fateful for Yun, traveling to Pyongyang to perform Yun’s “Cello Concerto” as part of a festival honoring the composer, who died in 1995. The Isang Yun World Peace Concert, a rare event that brings together musicians from both North and South Korea, is a joint effort between the South’s Isang Yun Peace Foundation and the North’s Yun I Sang Music Institute. Koh will perform with the Isang Yun Orchestra and renowned Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Chung Myung-Whun...
...national prominence of their 1998 single “One Week,” they can at least fall back on careers as comedians. During two events this past Saturday—a brunch hosted by the Adams House Masters followed by an interactive Q&A forum and concert, marking the debut of Harvard LIVE!—the five hipsters offered a steady stream of jokes and played a lively set of old hits and new material. Indeed, the band’s unusual humor and penchant for audience interaction was a big draw for the Harvard Concert Commission...
...texts, Guerrouabi's shortened, jazzy renditions of classical chaabi tunes played to massive crowds in Europe and the Arab world. During Algeria's turbulent 1990s, he fled into exile in Paris, but homesickness and ill health drove him to return in 2004; weakened by diabetes, he played his final concert last summer in Algiers...
...actually all male) brunched with 40 students at the home of the Adams House Masters and rocked and talked with 250 more at Lowell Lecture Hall. The Canadian rock band’s visit was the first in the new HarvardLIVE! series, a collaboration between the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Office For the Arts’ (OFA) Learning From Performers Program. The Barenaked boys were also the recipients of the first HarvardLIVE! Arts Achievement Award. Previously, Harvard has booked guest performers based on the availability of high-capacity venues, said OFA Director Jack Megan. The strategy proposed...
...armed apocalypse, and he displays an attention to detail that can lull you into suspending disbelief. Especially if you have traveled the new English landscape of soccer thugs, superstores and paved-over villages where, as Pearson says of Brooklands, "it was impossible to borrow a book, attend a concert, say a prayer, consult a parish record or give to charity." What kind of mind frolics in a landscape like this? One whose proprietor, at age 75, is also bursting with charm and ideas. James Graham Ballard was born in Shanghai, where his father worked for a British textile company. After...