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Backus says that the former president of these two defunct clubs, Tim M. Hunter '68, will be at Harvard this November as the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist of the year. The visit of the current director and screenwriter ("Tex," "Sylvester")--who currently has an office at Warner Brothers Studios--will...
During his visit to Harvard in 1981. Ivers called himself a "bodhisattva of new wave music," and said that bands must be unruly, antagonistic, and non-conformist to protect their artistic integrity.
Ivers was known to experiment with different types of music and was actively involved in combining new wave and video into so called new music. He is best known for composing the score for the cult movie "Eraserhead."
As a national cable TV emcee for "New Wave Theater," Ivers was recognized as "very progressive" by his peers. Mark Canton, a vice president and senior production executive for Warner Brothers, said yesterday that "he was way ahead of his time and people were finally recognizing his talent."
Many people in the Harvard community who knew Ivers also expressed deep regret over his death Myra A Mayman, director of the Office of the Arts at Radcliffe, commented that "while he was here he was really connected with a lot of students and we are all going to miss...