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...Harvard’s not really known for its art department, but it’s great,” says Fang. “It’s small, but talented and supportive. I looked at Princeton’s, but it was much smaller and basically relegated to an attic space...
Marvin, affectionately known as “Jim” by his students, is the latest of five conductors for the Holden Choirs—composed of the Glee Club, Collegium Musicum, and the Radcliffe Choral Society—since the Glee Club was founded in 1858. Marvin holds one of the most prominent choral conducting jobs in the country: the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society are, respectively, the oldest men’s and the oldest women’s collegiate chorus in the country...
...They were the Holden Choirs before, but it was more an internal name that was used. It was not, as it is now, an external name,” Marvin says. The Choirs were initially known as the Holden Choirs simply because the groups all used the Holden Chapel as a rehearsal space. Under the exuberant direction of Marvin, however, the Holden Choirs have become a cohesive entity within the school...
This tight-knit community only strengthens in the intense rehearsals for which Marvin is known. Even the lengthiest rehearsals are rendered bearable by Marvin’s fierce energy and ridiculous teaching-phrases, known as Marvinisms. The singers collect these bizarre phrases in their music, send them out over email chains, and eventually create year-end books with pages devoted to them...
...Catherine B. Lord ’71—a visual artist, writer, curator, and intellectual focusing on queer theory, feminist history, and colonialism—will receive the Spring 2010 Harvard Arts Medal. Within a matter of days she will publish an article arguing that Valerie Solanas, better known as the woman who tried to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968, should be taken more seriously as a voice in the feminist movement...