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While heading down the usually quiet Asian Art hallway in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) last Friday, visitors could hear strains of live jazz from the adjoining Koch Gallery bouncing off of the sixth century limestone Chinese sculptures. Between 5:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., the spacious gallery was packed to full capacity, perhaps the most popular place in town. The occasion was mfafirstfridays, an event that takes place on the first Friday of each month, when the site of one of the museum’s most popular permanent collections becomes a swinging singles scene...
...anymore. He sold the six panels he drew that day to a local magazine, then others to the Seattle Times and later got a syndication deal through the San Francisco Chronicle. Though he liked the gig--and knew he was good at it--his love has always been jazz guitar, which he plays for several hours a day, occasionally sneaking into a band with friends to play at local weddings...
...absence of a review of Harvard’s own WHRB radio station in Amelia Lester’s “Radio Rundown” piece (Oct. 2). WHRB is a great resource for listeners who are looking for an alternative to their typical rock, classical, jazz and hip-hop stations. With blues, country, sports and news programming, WHRB is an eclectic blend of a variety of interests. Furthermore, as it is run and produced by Harvard students themselves, I felt that it was unfortunate that Fifteen Minutes didn’t show support or interest for the station...
...classical department’s policy of never repeating the same piece in a year; rock listeners who dislike today’s nondescript alternative sound can find a real alternative in the underground scene covered by WHRB programming. Harvard football games, news reports, black urban contemporary music, blues, jazz and opera also all abound on WHRB...
...these divergent tastes. The Mercury’s idea of nodding to pop sensibility is to shortlist Coldplay whenever they release an album, but never actually award them anything—a trick they’ve been playing on Blur for years. There are always a couple of jazz or classical albums nominated just to prove how classy the award really is, though they also never actually win: high-brow classiness that stops just short of alienating its audience is the object...