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Legendary jazz musician Herbie Hancock learned a salsa dance step, played the dundun drum from Mali, and participated in an intertribal Indian social dance as Artist of the Year at the 23rd annual “Cultural Rhythms” show in Sanders Theater on Saturday. The day-long event...
Do you think there will ever be peace between the Israelis and Palestinians? -Mara Zivkov, Belgrade, SerbiaI think there will be. They are two incredibly wonderful and educated cultures. I don't think anyone really cares about the down and dirty specifics of what the deal is. The majority of...
Chinese students also said they found the performances interesting. Fangyu “Ferris” Zhang ’11 noted that “AADT’s hip-hop ‘Rain’ dance was symbolic in showing how Eastern and Western cultures were connecting...
To the outside world, the concert might appear to be aimed, as Maazel put it, at bringing "peoples and their cultures together on common ground, where the roots of peaceful interchange can imperceptibly take hold." Skeptics, like Bolton, believe Kim will simply use that perception to stall for more time...
Museum professionals have counterarguments. Some places--think of the Met, the Louvre or the National Gallery in London--are "universal museums," worth cherishing precisely because they permanently display the works of many cultures side by side. Neil MacGregor is the director of the British Museum, founded in 1753 as the...