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...Archie C. Epps III, then the dean of students, responded to a special charge that he received to address race relations with a program called “Harvard Discovery.” At the core of the one-day exercises was a booklet of readings ranging from Emerson to Henry Louis Gates Jr., now the Fletcher University Professor. Its purpose, Epps said, was “to take us from diversity to unity as a class and as a College...
...Enigma” Variations.Almost immediately after the lights dimmed and 24-year-old guest conductor Michael Sakir planted his feet on the podium, the orchestra jumped into a frenzied arpeggio followed by several cymbal crashes. With the boisterous opening of the prelude to Act III of “Lohengrin,” the strings were quickly overpowered by the brass line—though not enough to hide the fact that the violins were out of tune. Despite the unbalanced opening, the swashbuckling theme was well articulated by the brass section for a clean end. Like...
...first woman to conduct a mainstage production with the San Francisco Opera summarized her career path on Friday with a quote from Harvard Musician in Residence Isaiah A. Jackson III ’66: “You can’t plan the important things.” Hosted by the Harvard College Women’s Center and co-sponsored by the Office for the Arts at Harvard, Sara E. Jobin ’91 spoke with a group of students over lunch as part of the Alum-inating! program, a speaker series that brings a prominent alumna...
...their ability to have children, forgetting King Lear in Act II: “O, reason not the need!... / Allow not nature more than nature need, / Man life’s as cheap as beast’s.” Instead, let’s look to Act III: “Take physic, pomp; / Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, / That thou mayst shake the superflux to them, / And show the heavens more just.” In a society of ever-increasing inequality, let us show ourselves more just with a more gracious attitude...
...After the censure, he made it a big issue to shut down whoever disagrees with him," says Haney. Specifically, the McCain camp recruited former Arizona governor J. Fife Symington III to run for Haney's party position the next year. Haney was incredulous. "They recruited a former governor?" he says. "To run as one of 30 chairmen in the state? The risk he took just brings into question his level-headedness, I guess...