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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, presented by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, is a yearly celebration of diversity at Harvard that includes two shows and a food festival. The event stars a range of Harvard’s multicultural performance groups, showcasing songs, dances, and musical instruments from around the world...
...Herbie Hancock, a celebrated jazz pianist and composer, has been selected as the Cultural Rhythms 2008 Artist of the Year, according to the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which sponsors the event. Hancock will be honored at the 23rd Annual Cultural Rhythms event this Saturday, which the Foundation says will feature some 30 student musical and dance performances over two shows. He will receive the Artist of the Year award at the opening show in Sanders Theatre. Hancock has had a long and legendary musical career, recently capped by an Album of the Year Grammy Award...
...like to thank the Academy for courageously breaking the mold this time.' Herbie Hancock, pianist and composer, on being the first jazz artist in 43 years to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year...
...like to thank the Academy for courageously breaking the mold this time.' HERBIE HANCOCK, jazz musician, on being the first jazz artist in 43 years to win a Grammy Award for Album of the Year...
Last summer Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock, Mass., became the first ski area to install its own wind turbine; nearly half the resort's energy needs are provided by the 1.5-MW tower. Producing its own energy also allows the resort to shield guests from higher room rates caused by rising electricity prices. At Vermont's Killington Resorts, the diesel-powered snowmaking compressors are being replaced with low-emission machines, which should reduce emissions 50% next year. Buck Hill Ski Area in Burnsville, Minn., buys enough wind power to run 85% of its operations. And Mammoth Mountain in California...