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...annual staples of Harvard’s Arts First weekend, these groups share an unmatched excitement about contributing to Harvard’s artistic tradition.First to perform is Harvard’s oldest a capella group, the Harvard Krokodiloes. This all-male ensemble performs pieces—ranging from jazz standards to classic rock—from the 1920s, ’30s, ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s. According to music director Thomas K. B. Wionzek ’08, the Kroks “offer a tight sound, classic repertoire...
...Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. 10:45 AM Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St.11:00 AM A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard 11:30 AM Struttin’ With Some Barbeque: The New Orleans Jazz TraditionARTS FIRST Tent, Science Center Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, 5 Bryant St. 12:00 PM Clay Creations at the Potter’s WheelScience Center Hands-On ArtDudley House A Tale of Two CitiesRadcliffe Yard12:15 PM Japanese Tea Ceremony DemonstrationsTearoom, East Asian Languages...
...process. “It’s more like an oral tradition. You go up there, have a basic idea of lines, and play a dialogue back and forth for three hours. ” While American tradition is used to improvisation in the form of instruments and jazz, what we are not as familiar with is the type of vocal improv, which will happen next Friday night. Each of the six compositions (three performed by each singer) will start off with a traditional, spot-invented vocal prelude, which will be backed up by the violin. Later, percussion will...
...comment, Apr. 25), we do live in an age of restless materialism and social anomie. Perhaps, though the comparison is a touch facile, our coming of age in the irrationally exuberant 1990s is just as bankrupt as that of Tom and Daisy Buchanan of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. And it is quite likely, though I’ve never been to it, that the Fly’s annual Gatsby party is neither nostalgic nor ironic. Yet to read “Gatsby,” as Mahtani does, as a merely cautionary tale is to miss...
...much of the 1990s, the former industrial area of Zurich-West was deserted, the factories that once produced turbines and steamboats standing eerily silent. Then, in 2000, Schiffbau?a 19th century shipbuilding plant?was gutted to make way for a restaurant, jazz club and cluster of theaters. Today, nearly all of the area's brick-clad buildings have been repurposed as bars, shops and galleries, flanked by chic loft apartments. It's a transformation that's helping to turn Switzerland's largest city from a buttoned-up financial capital into something approaching a fashionable metropolis...