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Film Without A Title, also shown on last Friday, is a self-conscious film about filmmaking in the years after the defeat of the Nazis. Other films in the series include the German valentine to American jazz, Fanfares of Love, which Billy Wilder recast as Some Like It Hot a few years later, and The Hooligans, about youth rebelling against their Nazi-generation parents, a movie which resembles Rebel Without A Cause.While some of these films seem similar to Hollywood products of the Cold War era, many manifest a uniquely German struggle to create a new post-war national identity...
...DAVE BRUBECK QUARTET. Legendary pianist Brubeck will stop by Sanders Theatre for two back-to-back concerts this weekend. Equally distinguished as a composer and a performer, Brubeck has maintained a reputation as a progressive, intellectual jazz musician throughout a career now half a century long. Put on your beret, buy some cigarettes, and have a night of guaranteed cutting-edge jazz. Saturday, March 15 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets $29.50 to $35.50, available through the Harvard Box Office or by phone (617) 496-2222. Sanders Theatre...
TAARANA. A concert that celebrates diverse forms of South Asian music, Taraana mixes classical South and North Indian music, folk songs, modern pop songs, with fusion pieces integrating jazz and hip hop. Uniting musicians from diverse corners of Harvard College with musicians from MIT and BU to present South Asian music, Taraana will be the first of its kind in the history of Harvard University. All profits from the concert will support shelters in Lowell and Worcester. Tickets $5, available at the Harvard Box Office or by phone at (617) 496-2222. Saturday, March 15, 2003?...
Parks described The Death of the Last Black Man in the Entire World as “kind of a jazz musical where no one really sings...
LOUIE BELLSON. A legendary jazz drummer Duke Ellington once called “the greatest musician alive” performs this weekend with Kenny Hitchcock (sax), Derek Smith (piano) and Jay Leonhart (bass) in Cambridge. Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8 at 9 p.m. Tickets $25, available at Ryles or by phone (617) 876-9330. Ryles Jazz Club, 212 Hampshire Street, Inman Square, Cambridge...