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Former colleagues in New Haven reached last week suggested that after leading two of the world's premier universities, Richard, who is 58, has the energy and capability to guide a third...
...scripture throughout. Given that the services are very well attended, Jones says he sees them as an opportunity to introduce new music to the Boston and Cambridge community. Each year since his arrival at Harvard in 2003, he has commissioned a new carol. On Sunday, the University Choir will premier a new setting of hymnwriter Isaac Watts’s “A Cradle Hymn” by Daniel R. Pinkham ’44. “It is a gentle and lilting setting, featuring Pinkham’s signature harmonic language, that builds to a rousing climax...
...Most Japanese fans, however, are celebrating Matsuzaka's signing as further proof that Japan's best players can compete on baseball's premier stage. Japanese players who move to the majors are no longer seen as leaving Japan behind; they are seen as representing their country in the international game. It's a sign that the globalization of sport is finally penetrating this often isolationist country, that many fans here would rather watch an international game with the top players in the world than settle for a lessened domestic product. As one Japanese baseball blog put it: "Finally...
Apollonia U. Poilâne ’07 brings a whole new meaning to the phrase “term-time employment.” The economics and psychology concentrator is the CEO of Pain Poilâne, a premier Parisian bakery with over 150 employees that, according to Poilâne, does around $18.2 million of business a year. Poilâne took over in October of 2002 after her parents were killed in a helicopter accident. At the time, she was taking a year off; when she learned of their deaths, she realized she would have until...
...looks to invite “entertainers with… a sound based on their place in history and their development of an original voice.” Sanabria’s background is primarily in Afro-Caribbean and Latin jazz. Everett describes him as a “premier Latin percussionist, educator, and historian.” Indeed, Sanabria’s diverse recording and performing experience includes work with such legendary figures as Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, and “Godfather of Cuban Jazz” Mario Bauzá, according to the artist?...