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Mather House. "The Other Half Speaks," a concert of keyboard music by women composers of the last three centuries. Pianist Elain Greenfield performs works by Clara Schumann, Marianne von Martinez, Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de la Guerre, Amy Marcy Beach and Grazyna Baceqicz. Mather House, Senior Common Room, 3:30 p.m. Free...
Jazz percussionist Joyce Kouffman brought Jacquet here again in 1983 and 1984 as an Artist-in-Residence. Jacquet performed with the Harvard Jazz Band in 1987 at the band's 15th reunion concert...
...Illinois Jacquet attributes his experience at Harvard of working with the student jazz musicians for inspiring him to convert a long nurtured hope of forming his own big band into a reality," says an Offce of the Arts at Harvard-Radcliffe press release...
...Jacquet decided to form his band because he was inspired by the enthusiasm and eagerness of members of the jazz band at Harvard. "The decision to form his band was made on the morning of a concert crowning his residency here at Harvard. As he was walking along the Charles, [Jacquet said he was] swept up in the `enthusiasm the young musicians demonstrated, [he] couldn't help being pleased by their eagerness,'" says an Office of the Arts release...
Cathy McCormick, acting director of the Office for the Arts, says that at the reunion concert Jacquet was electrifying as he played to a sold-out Sanders Theater. "He brought down the house with a rendition of the theme song "Flying Home," Mc Cormick says...