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...business colleagues. But these guests at a midnight supper in Paris' fashionable Majestic Hotel in May 1922 were the best-known artists of the age: impresario Serge Diaghilev, writers James Joyce and Marcel Proust, painter Pablo Picasso and composer Igor Stravinsky. Ostensibly they were there to celebrate the premier of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, performed by Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. The real reason: so a wealthy English arts patron, Sydney Schiff, could bring together the giants he worshipped. In A Night at the Majestic, Richard Davenport-Hines brilliantly reimagines this unique-in-art-history event, setting the five-star...
Bachelors College. Saturday, March 4. 7:00 p.m., 8:15 p.m. Fong Auditorium in Boylston Hall Tickets free at the Harvard Box Office. Before the Kodak Theater hosts the 78th Academy Awards on Sunday, Fong Auditorium will feature a cinematic event of its own: the premier screening of “Bachelors Cottage,” the first film produced for public exhibition on Harvard’s campus. Written and directed by Michael Van Devere, a Harvard Box Office associate and Extension School student, “Bachelors Cottage” tells the story of six World...
...synfuel lobby in Washington is a consortium called the Council for Energy Independence. It's a name worthy of the most successful Washington lobbies, in which private interests camouflage their mission under the banner of a worthy-sounding cause. The council is directed by one of Washington's premier tax lobbyists, Kenneth J. Kies, managing director of the Clark Consulting Federal Policy Group. A former chief of staff of the Joint Committee on Taxation, the congressional panel that oversees the drafting of tax laws, Kies is well situated to guide legislation that could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars...
...Tonics are an all-male group whose eccentric stage attire, diverse musicality, and dynamic performances have won them a reputation as one of the world’s premier college a capella ensembles. The Opportunes, Harvard’s first fully co-ed singing group, are similarly recognized for their multi-part harmonies and sense of humor...
Regardless of its day-job as home to Harvard’s more elephantine lectures, Sanders remains the premier venue in which to hear live music on campus. If you haven’t been to Sanders for some time or if you merely want to hear some music (and see some faces) that you’ll definitely recognize, this late-February vocal jam is a perfect occasion to tune...