Word: musician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While the HRO is left to struggle with red tape, unnecessary costs, and inadequate rehearsal space, the University has begun to solicit and accept more undergraduate musicians each year. These students, looking for a credited outlet for their talent, find the opportunities severely limited. Music 180 is the only course offering performance for credit. However, admission into this seminar is drastically limited. The University is simply not responsible if it encourages musicians to enter Harvard and then provides only one performance course. The rising level of musician dissatisfaction was clearly demonstrated by the petition delivered to President Bok last month...
...orchestra rehearsal. It is possible for students to take Music 91r with Dr. Yannatos. However, the specific studies of this course are only secondary to the real learning that takes place on stage during the five hours of rehearsal time each week and the extra hours spent by each musician practicing on his own. Some University officials think of the orchestra as a "extracurricular" activity and liken it to sports or drama when justifying lack of credit. It is hard to understand how students can receive credit for photography and other art work if this criteria is truly valid...
...careerism at Harvard. As academic pressure mounts, the first thing students sacrifice are the extracurricular activities. Students will be more likely to design better balanced course programs for themselves if credit were available for playing in the HRO. Rather than turning to the library and to oneself an orchestral musician is forced to look beyond his immediate concerns and pressures, to establish relations with the entire ensemble...
PATTI SMITH: HORSES (Arista; $6.98). The author of two published books of verse, Patti Smith has worked as a musician intermittently over the past year or so, mainly in New York underground night spots. Dylan turned up at a performance recently-an event that confers rock's official blessing. Her debut record, like her wild-eyed poems, reveals an artist who is gifted but undisciplined. Leading off with Gloria in excelsis deo ("Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine"), her dark voice projects a tough, fragile, street-girl image. The showcase number, Horses, invokes Rimbaud...
Five years ago Bruce Springsteen was making the best rock music in the country. Now he is a rock act, not a rock musician. Bruce, you sold...