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...home of the Adams House Masters and rocked and talked with 250 more at Lowell Lecture Hall. The Canadian rock band’s visit was the first in the new HarvardLIVE! series, a collaboration between the Harvard Concert Commission (HCC) and the Office For the Arts’ (OFA) Learning From Performers Program. The Barenaked boys were also the recipients of the first HarvardLIVE! Arts Achievement Award. Previously, Harvard has booked guest performers based on the availability of high-capacity venues, said OFA Director Jack Megan. The strategy proposed by HCC heads Tyler O’Brien...
...Brien said last night that the Office of Fine Arts (OFA), a co-sponsor with HCC, has been an invaluable resource...
...OFA also provided logistical funding for Harvard LIVE! through the Peter Ivers Visiting Arts Fund. The fund was established in 1983 by the family of Peter S. Ivers ’68, a New Wave musician who was bludgeoned to death by an intruder in his Los Angeles apartment...
Blessed with unseasonably perfect weather, Harvard celebrated its 14th annual Arts First festival this past weekend, a showcase of over 200 student art performances.Organized by the Office for the Arts (OFA), the springtime arts extravaganza featured venues of all shapes and sizes, from co-ed a cappella concerts to Japanese tea ceremony demonstrations. This year’s festivities, featuring a combination of dancers, singers, visual artists, actors, and musicians lead outgoing University President Lawrence H. Summers to describe it as “one of the most enjoyable weekends of the year.”And the artists themselves...
...Russell Wolff, a student at the Extension School who will also graduate this year. Wolff’s band will perform directly after Carlisle’s, on the same stage. Ingrid Schorr, the Office for the Arts representative in charge of organizing the Performance Fair, says that the OFA provides “very little artistic oversight,” and that it attempts to extend Harvard’s resources to motivated students. Carlisle cites the OFA’s importance in her own musical development: “I’ve had a really dynamic relationship...