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...could accuse�David Crosby of having led a�boring life. A founding member of the Byrds and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, the veteran musician has made even more headlines for his turbulent personal life. Crosby, who appeared at Woodstock, has gone to prison for possession of a firearm and drugs, been in a serious motorcycle crash, gone broke, taken heroin, had a liver transplant and fathered six children, two of them as a sperm donor. He recounts his colorful story in his new book, Since Then: How I Survived Everything and Lived to Tell About It (Putnam), which will...
...option, Zhou says.After work, Zhou would practice the jinghu in his apartment, just as he had done in China. However, Zhou’s new neighbors threatened to call the police. The embattled artist took to practicing outdoors, atop a hill in Boston Common.Three years ago, a fellow Chinese musician suggested that Zhou relocate to the Square, where he could earn money while practicing.Following this advice, Zhou brought his talents to this side of the Charles, and he quit his restaurant job shortly thereafter.On “good days” when it’s not raining, Zhou takes...
...instead of being armed with pick up lines and drenched in fragrance, students brought musical equipment of all kinds with the hope of meeting other musically-inclined peers. “The main idea of the event parallels the point of HCARAR, which is to help musicians connect with each other. We want to make the music community more social and tight knit,” said Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, president of HCARAR. The inspiration for the event came from HCARAR’s Events Liason, Amy R. Klein...
Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA) kicked off its festival honoring acclaimed composer, conductor, and musician Leonard Bernstein ’39 last Thursday evening in Paine Hall with a concert featuring student performers. The concert explored the musical influences from Bernstein’s youth and time at Harvard during the first half, and continued demonstrating the presence of these influences in Bernstein’s own works in the latter half of the performance. It was a fitting retrospective on Bernstein’s early development as a musician as well as a remarkable display...
...serious musician what they plan on doing “for a living,” and you’ll likely be rewarded with awkward, side-long glances, sweaty palms, and a hushed, “I don’t know…uh, maybe consulting?” For in a time-honored tradition, both at Harvard and beyond, it has continued to be difficult for musicians—and artists in general, for that matter—to declare a creative calling: forget about the money, what about the social implications? Yet, for some, music becomes...