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...member of the Radcliffe faculty for Music Composition and Theory in 1938, Boulanger was the first professor to instruct both Harvard and Radcliffe students together, and as a composition teacher, she instructed hundreds of American and European students. The exhibit devoted to her was coordinated by research assistant Elizabeth Craft and Loeb staff members Virginia Danielson and Sarah Adams. It shows scores left to Harvard by the Boulanger estate and includes a composition by Harvard’s own Robert Levin that he completed at age 12. The exhibit concentrates on Boulanger’s effect on America and especially...
Family Politics I found Elizabeth Gilbert's essay "A Family Divided" to be eminently sad [Oct. 20]. An Obama supporter, Gilbert tells us she is "losing sleep" over the possibility that her father will vote for McCain. She worries that it "could somehow threaten our affection." Really? I understand that many people are passionate in their political beliefs, but to obsess over your own father's political preferences to the point where you want to "scold him or force him to accept [your] worldview" strikes me as rather extreme and narrow-minded. Salvatore Astorina, BROOKLYN...
...Elizabeth Martinez, a hotel worker from California, shared her experiences as an employee and a labor organizer with Harvard students in a discussion yesterday organized by the Harvard Student Labor Action Movement. Martinez has been working as a waitress at the Hilton Hotel in Long Beach, Calif. for 11 years. She said that working conditions have degenerated since the management of the hotel was turned over four years ago to HEI Hotels and Resorts, a company supported by funds from various university endowments. “The way they manage those hotels is just horrible,” Martinez said...
...spring strong once the weather turns. “Overall, I think we did real well we left a few out there but we’re going to take the positives from this round into the spring,” Pollak said. —Staff writer Elizabeth A. Joyce can be reached at eajoyce@fas.harvard.edu...
...rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international event observed in 50 cities worldwide. Now in its sixth year, the event was first brought to Harvard by Elizabeth Coffey, Film Conservator at the HFA, whose involvement in the National Organization of Film Archivists led her to befriend the founders of Home Movie Day. “Part of the event is to educate people on the films’ value. They should be shown in public because they...