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...stage that had never acted before.” Indeed, he prides himself on the ability to draw from resources that lie outside the Harvard theater bubble—his four choreographers are members of the Harvard Dance Team, and his music director is a member of the Harvard Jazz Bands. “He brought in all the jazz people,” Hanley says, “so now we have a professional jazz orchestra as our ‘jazz orchestra.’” But the fact remains that the odds are stacked against...
...want people to listen to music and to take a step back, to think about activism.” Professor Ingrid Monson pauses, and then adds, laughing, “But then, the subtitle of my book on jazz and civil rights could be ‘All the things everybody’s gotten into fights about over jazz.’” This mix of seriousness and humor is indicative of Monson’s working credo: she combines the nuanced, critical eye of a studious intellectual with the uncensored delight of a lover and practitioner...
Hanley prides himself on drawing from resources outside the traditional Harvard theater bubble—his four choreographers are members of the Harvard Dance Team, and his jazz orchestra is composed entirely of members of the Harvard Jazz Bands...
...something completely different: this Friday, Harvard’s own Din & Tonics and Opportunes—two of the more popular a cappella groups on campus—will fill Sanders Theatre with vocal iterations of rock, jazz, and pop standards from the past century...
This Friday, you’ll be sure to hear something that will delight your ears, be it a guilty-pleasure pop anthem wrapped in middle school nostalgia, a fists-raised and lighters-out rock hit, or a smoky jazz classic that you (kinda-sorta) recognize. Oh, and best of all: it’s all been re-invented in a cappella close harmony replete with skits and assorted other antics...