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10.FM: Wow. Speaking of this short story, it’s one of the most anthologized works in the last quarter century. Al Jolson was considered to be one of the world’s greatest entertainers. He sang a lot of jazz and blues and influenced a bunch of famous musicians and performers, including Judy Garland and Bob Dylan, who once referred to him as “somebody whose life I can feel...
Over the past twenty years, Ho, an accomplished baritone saxophonist, has dreamed up inventive compositions, theater productions, multicultural ensembles, and literary works which fuse the African-American roots of the jazz tradition with his Chinese-American heritage and his commitment to social justice...
...member of the Jazz Band, Ho was one of only a handful of students in its history to compose an ensemble piece. But he dropped out of the Band during his sophomore year to focus on activism, and his signature fusion of Chinese and African-American musical styles did not develop until after graduation...
...Bell Jar”; for people passionate about reading and writing, New York is still the place to be. And if the statistics speak the truth, one-fifth of Harvard’s graduating seniors will end up there. They’ll have no trouble finding culture, from jazz bars to independent film screenings to a booming underground hip-hop scene. But the deeper theorizing about what that art means and why it matters is probably being done at places like Harvard—the place where they’ve come from, not the place they...
Soft Touch, a 17-piece band that includes recently retired Harvard Divinity School Professor and Quincy Senior Common Room affiliate Harvey G. Cox Jr., serenaded guests with jazz and swing tunes...