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...symposium will open with remarks from E. Forrest O’Connor ’10, president of the Harvard College American Music Association (HCAMA), and Deborah Foster, a Folklore and Mythology senior lecturer who helped adapt the department’s annual symposium to feature bluegrass music. Brown and her husband Garry West, co-founders of Compass Records—a record label that specializes in part in bluegrass music—will join scholars to discuss the roots of the genre. The day will culminate with an evening performance by Clint W. Miller ’11, Brown...
...jazz was a generation ago, American folk music is beginning—too 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...
Following her son's death, Cochet and her family moved from Nice to Paris in an effort to move on with their lives. She remains committed to sparing other families from the grief she still lives with. In December, she helped France's Ministry of Health organize a symposium on the choking game, bringing together 200 doctors, physicians, teachers, policemen and bereaved parents from nine different countries. Her English isn't perfect, but when it comes to explaining the risks of choking, she speaks rather eloquently...
Schrag said that he thought that the event was a huge success. He said the symposium is “one of the great things Harvard does” to promote interest in environmental issues...
...catalyzes and encourages [professors’] research” through fellowships and grants, he said, while simultaneously stimulating public interest through events such as the symposium...