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...those who prefer dancing and a light (not necessarily Polish) meal, Labo, on the fashionable Ulica Mazowiecka, is among Warsaw's most popular clubs. This spring, starting on March 31, the Polish capital will be host of the International Ludwig van Beethoven Easter Festival. In October the annual international jazz festival will be held in the Palace of Culture and Science, a dour monstrosity donated by Stalin that is the city's kitschiest testament to communist-era architecture...
...symphony, and concert into one narrative, he subdivides relentlessly and then assembles and reassembles the pieces to suit his arguments. (For music theorists, the technique is similar to twelve-tone composition.) Thus, he tracks simultaneous developments like Arnold Schoenberg’s atonal school in Austria and the early jazz compositions of little known American composers like Charles Ives and Will Marion Cook.The book is broken into three parts by time period, and the parts broken into chapters by, apparently, whatever Ross felt like. His command of the material is so complete, and his guidance through it so gentle, that...
...with works by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Edgar Degas, and an anonymous nineteenth-century artist in Rajasthan, India, among others. The show is organized thematically rather than chronologically or geographically. The seemingly incongruous juxtapositions create a surreal space in which a punch bowl from a 1931 Cowan Pottery Studio Jazz Bowl Series is a blaze of blue and black abstraction behind a case containing Mayan cylinder vases and Greek oil flasks. Ackley cites two original sites of inquiry: his desire to look at a Goya drawing next to a Hokusai print and his desire to consider Maya drawings on ceramic...
...matching movies with music. “I followed my love of music,” he explained. “From a young age, I knew I wanted to be a songwriter.” After graduation, Kraft moved to New York and earned a living as a jazz musician. There he wrote and performed a new song every day. This persistence led him to a recording contract, and he relocated to Los Angeles, where he pragmatically capitalized on every opportunity he came across. “A lot of people are very precious of what they work on?...
...order to bring the piece to life.”“It’s a kind of controlled improvisation,” says Matthew M. Spellberg ’09, the show’s producer. “It functions sort of the same way jazz does, with these conventional ways to embellish the written music.”Of course, the way that the music is written is not the only thing that has changed. As always, the Harvard Early Music Society’s production will feature an entire spectrum of unusual instruments, ranging...