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...said. “He tried to get us all into medicine to begin with, but in the end he thought that education was extremely important no matter what direction you went with it.” In addition to being a scientist, MacMahon was also an accomplished classical pianist. According to his son, he almost forwent his career in medicine to study music. Born in England, MacMahon attended the University of Birmingham. He served for two years as a ship’s doctor in the Royal Navy before crossing the pond to study in Brooklyn. He finally settled...
...notorious for having long, unexciting lectures and mind-numbing sections. Given this context, Literature and Arts B-82, “Sayin’ Something: Jazz as Sound, Sensibility and Social Dialogue,” stands out for its guest lecturer this week. Geri Allen, an award-winning pianist and composer, is one of the most prominent female musicians in jazz today. Allen is finishing up a week-long residency at Harvard consisting of educational discussions, performances, and hands-on practice. The Music Department originally invited her to participate in the lecture with funding from the Blodgett Distinguished Artists?...
After Darnton gave some brief historical background for each song, Delavault—“specially imported from Paris” as Darnton put it—revived the old tunes, accompanied by pianist and history and literature teaching fellow George H. Blaustein...
...attempts to create art. The plays follow his efforts to control and combine the production of words and music. Actor Mickey Solis portrays the former as Joe in “Words and Music” and Voice in “Cascando.” An ensemble of pianist Donald Berman, percussionist Robert Schulz, and violinist Gil Morgenstern personifies music as Bob in “Words and Music” and Music in “Cascando...
...think we can’t do it, we will.”Dean DeBlois’s directorial work is spectacularly disjointed. Rapid shifts from concert to landscape and back again occur throughout. At one point the looks deeply focused on their music, and in the next frame pianist Kjartan Sveinsson leans on his keyboard and stares into the distance. During the portions of the film where the band is shown performing, the audio occasionally doesn’t match the accompanying visual. Views of the audience show young children, grandparents, and many people who probably have never heard...