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...He’s like a rock star in Mali,” said Monson, who has focused much of her work on jazz music...
Monson, who has been at Harvard since 2001 and served as the chair of the music department for three years, said that she may be able to incorporate the whimsical nature of jazz into her administrative role—“in the sense of life as one big improvisation...
...WHRB (Harvard Radio Broadcast), Harvard’s open-circuit radio station, will celebrate its seventieth anniversary this week on April 15. The celebration, featuring live jazz, will unite faculty with dozens of undergraduates. The celebration marks more than a milestone for a college radio station; the anniversary represents the strength of WHRB’s intimate community and its commitment to providing quality programming for Harvard and the greater Boston area...
WHRB divides its music airtime between three major programs: Classical, Jazz, and the Record Hospital (underground rock and punk). In addition, WHRB offers news and sports broadcasts, as well as airplay for blues, reggae, bluegrass, hip-hop, electronica, and a number of other varied genres...
...commercial radio depended on the largest number of listeners, but WHRB’s intention was always to provide the best music, and the listener followed... and that holds true today.” WHRB’s first radio broadcast, which devoted its time to jazz and classical music, as well as a 15-minute news segment, abided by a formula quite similar to its modern schedule. Rock music was first incorporated into the rotation in the early 1970s...