Word: jazze
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Since the commons opened on January 4, more than a half-dozen events have taken place in the semi-enclosed space. While most of the twice-weekly entertainment is musical, last Saturday featured a stand-up comic and this Thursday there will be a poetry reading, with jazz music afterward, according to Monica A. Henderson '99, the student coordinator at Memorial Hall...
Each weekend, students can see everything from orchestras to a capella groups. Some of the nation's best-known musical talents hail from Harvard: Yo Yo Ma '76, Leonard Bernstein '39, Robinson Professor of Music Robert D. Levin '68 and more recently, jazz musician Joshua Redman '91 and cellist Matt Haimovitz...
Simmons said having Leonard Bernstein compose and teach a song for the Krokodiloes in his Manhattan apartment during the early 1980s was one of the most memorable moments of his career. Another high point for Simmons was performing at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland...
...much of the twentieth century, Southern whites wasted much of their energy on constructing and enforcing a system of apartheid. While black Southerners were creatively and subversively turning their misery into enduring American art forms such as the blues and jazz, most Southern whites were so crippled by inbred cultural racism that they could barely demonstrate that they were morally or intellectually superior to brute beasts...
...versatile composer; in Orlando, Florida. A child prodigy--Just Six was composed when he was just six--Gould drew heavily on American themes and music in pieces like Fall River Legend, the Lizzie Borden ballet for Agnes de Mille, and in compositions rooted in idioms as diverse as jazz, folk music and marching bands. He won a Pulitzer for Stringmusic, commissioned by the National Symphony...