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...universality, something that is also visible in the dualistic nature of his art. On the one hand, for example, he was fascinated by simple, seemingly chaotic forms of representation which defied academic conventions. On the other hand, there was the rational Klee, who, particularly during his time as a teacher at the Bauhaus school, analyzed and articulated his own practices and techniques - as well as the ideas behind them - and who very much valued orderliness (he painstakingly catalogued all of his 9,000 works himself...
...Nadia Boulanger and her role as an example of the musical communication that occurred between America and Europe. As a member of the Radcliffe faculty for Music Composition and Theory in 1938, Boulanger was the first professor to instruct both Harvard and Radcliffe students together, and as a composition teacher, she instructed hundreds of American and European students. The exhibit devoted to her was coordinated by research assistant Elizabeth Craft and Loeb staff members Virginia Danielson and Sarah Adams. It shows scores left to Harvard by the Boulanger estate and includes a composition by Harvard’s own Robert...
...brings together professional-caliber dancing with a story that speaks to new audiences. Maitra admires the craft and creativity that the production’s group of dancers bring to the stage. “A two-hour classical dance drama in India would be choreographed by a dance teacher who will focus on that only for months,” she says. “Here we have less time, while also working on academics. It’s a very intensive process, but the creativity is remarkable.” The show will contain nine vignettes depicting...
...little hard to form a relationship with a teacher in the schools because they are so pressed for time,” she confesses...
...Harvard students, the lecture was packed with aspiring writers and local fans, who scribbled in notebooks or flipped through books as they waited for him to arrive. “He’s pretty sweet,” said Alex Kalamaroff, a Boston public school substitute teacher who sits in on Wood’s lectures at Harvard in his spare time. “My problem with book reviews is that I’d rather read books. [But] Even Philip Roth’s new novel is worse than this,” Kalmaroff said, holding...