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...late, as many enthusiasts insist—to be embraced and studied by the academic world. In that vein, “Fire on the Mountain”—a day-long symposium featuring world-renowned scholars and performers, including Grammy-awarding winning composer and banjo player Alison H. Brown ’84—aims to explore the roots, methods, and culture of bluegrass this Saturday in the Barker Center...
...Connor, who plays the mandolin, notes that bluegrass is one of the few subsets of American folk music that was largely pioneered by one person. Mandolin player Bill Monroe formed the Blue Grass Boys in 1939, and was later joined by banjoist Earl Scruggs and singer/guitarist Lester Flatt. Bluegrass, whose instrumentation includes guitar, banjo, mandolin, double bass, and fiddle, emerged as a kind of commercially disseminated folk music a decade later. It then began to permeate early rock music in unexpected ways: the offbeat mandolin chop characteristic of bluegrass music, for example, eventually evolved into the snare-drum offbeat...
Harvard’s 18-point rout of the Lions proved that the Crimson will be a major player for the Ivy title—a prize that last belonged to the squad...
...weekend we’ve been talking about momentum changes in athletics, and how if you’re a basketball player, it happens to you all the time,” Stone said. “In hockey, it’s a little bit different...You just have to weather the storm and sort of respond and dictate what happens...
...looked as if Keith had a tough bout in store, as Penhale caught the young grappler’s leg and tripped him for an early takedown. But after a number of battles in which neither player could score, Keith blocked Penhale’s leg on a restart, giving the Crimson wrestler leverage for a reversal. Drawing on his momentum, Keith easily escaped again to start the second frame, en route to 11 unanswered points and a definitive...