Word: loeb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sidney Verba '53, the genial political scientist, was mentioned as a likely candidate for dean of the Faculty. He didn't get the job, but instead was tapped to replace Oscar Handlin as Pfozheimer University Professor and University Librarian. Handlin moved over to the Loeb University chair, replacing retiring Law School eminence grise, Archibald Cox '34. Two other scholars also nabbed for university chairs, the highest honor Harvard can bestow on its professors: outgoing Dean of the Faculty Henry Resovsky and Business School teaching whiz Roland Christensen...
...Harvard, Rothenberg was also involved in music for theater, composing and performing for productions all over campus, including the Loeb Mainstage and the Ex. The possibilities for innovation in this type of music particularly appealed to him. "I found doing music for theater you can try different things and do unusual things and people will come and hear it and pay attention." But after sophomore year, he became tired of the theater scene. At the end of his Junior year, he performed a solo clarinet concert that featured classical works, as well as Tibetian and Japanese music, improvisation, and jazz...
Kopit's history with Harvard undergraduate theater indicates the unlimited opportunities of those days. "There was so much original theater," he says of a time when three or four new productions went up each weekend. "We felt very fortunate that there was no official drama department. With the Loeb came an institutionalization of theater," he adds...
While Kopit says he recognizes the advantages of the Loeb, and welcomes its presence, he remains grateful that, 25 years ago, "we had to do it all. There was freedom to fail. The sheer pleasure of working in Harvard theater has rarely been matched...
...placing Six Characters in the context of a rehearsal at the Loeb, the American Repertory Theatre ran the risk of exposing its own inadequacies. But Director Robert Brustein knows how to hedge his bets, and this wager paid off handsomely. The A.R.T.'s production is funny and moving, and gets to the heart of Pirandello's often elusive drama...