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...Conference Center, 1414 Mass Ave10:45 a.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St11 a.m.Sunken Garden Children’s TheaterSunken Garden, Radcliffe Yard11:30 a.m.Welcoming Performance by Harvard Bhangra and the Harvard BandHarvard Yard Stage11:30 a.m.“The Duke Meets the Count” Jazz PicnicArts First Tent, Science Center11:30 a.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St12 p.m.Sunken Garden Children’s Theater, Sunken Garden, Radcliffe Yard12:15 p.m.Japanese Tea CeremonyTea Room, 5 Bryant St1 p.m.South Indian Classical MusicHolden Chapel (between Lionel and Mower)1 p.m.Dunster House Opera ShowcaseDudley House, Lehman Hall1...
...contrasting the works of two American composers, showing how each contributed to American Culture in their own way. Mark E. Olson, Assistant Director of Bands at Harvard and the conductor for this concert, explains that “[Copland’s] use of American folk music and jazz captured the ear of the average American,” whereas Charles Ives “was an innovator of rhythm and harmony, often using polyrhythms and cluster chords, a practice rather common today but unheard of at that time.” The contrasts between the two composers are representative...
...plays an important role in Gurney’s music, he is not afraid to push at its boundaries. “We are trying to show how different kinds of music have more in common than you might think,” Gurney says. “Bluegrass, jazz, country and Celtic—they can meet up and find some common ground.” And just as traditional music has expanded its reach among Harvard students, Gurney himself has become a presence on campus. “I was in an elevator once and someone knew...
...original composition spanning many genres and lasting nearly an hour. Schachter undoubtedly has the artistic chops to pull off such an ambitious undertaking. He started playing the piano at age five and began to improvise and compose shortly afterward. The Boston-area native soon became interested in performing jazz, and he took composition lessons at the New England Conservatory throughout high school. When college rolled around, Schachter chose a liberal arts education at Harvard over the conservatory experience: “I never really wanted to go to a conservatory because I thought I would be intellectually and socially stifled...
...decline of her first studio led Oppenheimer to begin dancing at The Beat, a dance company in her hometown of Berkley, California. There, she was exposed to rhythm tap, a style that incorporates jazz rhythms developed on the city streets and that is vastly different from the more common Broadway...