Word: jazzing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Typically, one or two plays--out of the 40 produced at Harvard each semester--are written by Black playwrights and feature Black directors and all-Black or predominantly Black casts. And Black singers and musicians like Fiona V. Anderson '88 are mainstays of many Harvard rock and jazz groups...
Blacks are better represented in unofficial student rock and jazz groups. And most campus a cappella singing groups are also integrated. For example, one of the 13 Din and Tonics is Black, and the Opportunes have two Black members...
...wizardry. No story unfolds, though the queen, a contortionist, eels about renewing her spells. But the mood and pace of the evening progress with the intensity of drama. One reason is the music, which is not the traditional blare of fanfares and marches but a unified score of jazz and rock...
...tournament, which ran from May 12-15, coincided with the last critical days of reading period. It also marked the last few days for studying before the "big classes"--The Cultural Revolution, English 10, Jazz, and Ec 10--had their exams...
...with the mainstream classical tradition. He is not alone: Rock Musician Glenn Branca writes raucous symphonies for electric guitars, and the Chinese-American Lucia Hwong brings a cross-cultural sensibility to bear on her wistful New Age musings. But although Davis' orchestral music may contain improvisatory sections reminiscent of jazz, it is carefully controlled and expertly planned. Imagine Ellington's lush, massed sonorities propelled by Bartok's vigorous whiplash rhythms and overlaid with the seductive percussive haze of the Balinese gamelan orchestra, and you will have an idea of what both the Concerto and Notes from the Underground sound like...