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...repertoire will feature both Braddigan songs and Dispatch favorites. In addition to performing, the band members will talk to students about their experiences in the music industry. The event’s main focus is raising awareness about spinal cord injuries by promoting a student-created Web site, SPINALpedia, which is designed to create a support resource for people with spinal cord injuries. Brittany J. Martin ’08, who developed the idea of SPINALpedia, approached the Harvard Concert Committee about inviting the band. Her father, who is a quadriplegic, met Braddigan last year when they performed at Saint...
Jazz has long served as a site of cultural integration, and monday’s Ethio-Jazz concert in Sanders Theater was no different, using jazz fusion as a lens to examine the changing nature of the Ethiopian American identity in a rapidly globalizing world. This performance by the Either/Orchestra, featuring the compositions of Mulatu Astatke, concluded two days of presentations and panel discussions on Cultural Creativity in the Ethiopian American Diaspora. The fusion of Ethiopian traditional music with the already diverse language of jazz provided a fitting conclusion to the weekend.The conference opened with a keynote conversation between...
Beyond his dynamic performance as a lecturer, Gilbert strives to reach his students through honesty and openness; after the final exam, he encourages enrollees to write anonymous questions, which he answers on the course Web site. Questions range from course specific: “How much do you make off of each textbook?” (“4.5 percent of the purchase price... but all royalties on sales to my own students are donated to a charity chosen by the student(s) who achieve the highest score in the class.”) to far more personal...
...almost near the termination of the school year, and there’s still work that you have to do,” he said. “It would be generous if you took all the information you get and put it on the school Web site...
What’s particularly tragic about this situation is that this myth of the “heartland” ethic is by and large a phantasm constructed by conservative elites in order to frighten liberals away from drifting towards populism. In reality, rural America has been the site of some of the nation’s most radical political movements. Eugene Debs, the prominent socialist of the turn of the century, was a proud resident of Terre Haute, Ind. Lyndon Johnson, the architect of the century’s most far-reaching liberal programs, was born a poor...