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RECENT Learning From Performers sessions, sponsored by Harvard's Office of the Arts, gave many Harvard musicians a chance to play before an audience with other students and professionals. Unfortunately, many of the workshops, conducted by such performers as Les McCann, Freddie Hubbard and Nat Adderly were little more than showcases for these artists' talents. The enthusiasm and talent of the participants often more than compensated for their teachers' flaws. But more emphasis should be placed on real learning rather than on gaining a piece of the spotlight with a famous name...
Walter J. McCann Jr., chairman of the Ed School's admissions committee, said yesterday that financial aid is less available for the Ed School than for other schools of the University, and that the administration "is disturbed" by the decline in minority applicants compared to the total number of applicants that has occurred this year...
...McCann, the man who pleased so many Harvard students during his weeklong stay in Lowell House last November, has booked himself back into Paul's Mall through the weekend...
...McCann was always a pretty good jazz pianist. But recently he's turned to more funky piano and, increasingly, to improvisational vocals...
...McCann is the one deviant in the Boston jazz picture for the week. Without exception the major clibs have decided to book the finest jazz guitarists playing today...