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...advertisement, for a journal of Black culture, reads "Renowned Black scholars and writers, look at the new `star' of Black studies, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., not just as a scholar but as a political and cultural commentator...
...November 19th of 1993, a brilliant and controversial presence passed quietly through Harvard square. As part of the Harvard Bookstore Lecture Series, philosopher, preacher and scholar Cornel West '74 spoke about his most recent book, Keeping Faith: Philosophy and Race in America, at the Cambridge Public Library. West, currently a professor of religion and Afro-American Studies at Princeton University, will be joining the Afro-American Studies department here in the fall of 1994. He is known both for his academic accomplishments and for his activity as a community leader...
Readers sometimes complain about all the bad news in The Crimson. Of course, we do report good news when it happens (earlier this year, for example, we endorsed and wrote much about the expected move of prominent scholar Cornel West '74 from Princeton to Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department...
...Gershwin made between 1916 and 1927, mostly of his own music. For decades the Gershwin piano rolls have largely been forgotten, known only to a handful of collectors who possessed both the rolls and the pianos upon which they could be played. Now, thanks to the enterprise of Gershwin scholar Artis Wodehouse, everyone can enjoy them: Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls (Elektra/Nonesuch) is an extraordinary, ebullient CD collection of 12 Gershwin tunes, including the famous Rhapsody in Blue...
Wodehouse's efforts have been cheered by her fellow aficionados. "The ones I've heard have a live feeling, as if Gershwin were there," says Trebor Tichenor, a ragtime pianist and scholar in St. Louis, Missouri, who owns one of the largest private collections of piano rolls in America. Agrees collector Michael Montgomery, whose archives contain 100 of the extant Gershwin rolls: "It is the most careful, scholarly, faithful, high-integrity job that has ever been done with piano rolls...