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...Calatrava wanted to be a sculptor, but an early encounter with the work of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe sent him down the path of architecture (art is still his avocation--his Manhattan town house and his villa outside Zurich are filled with his abstract steel sculpture). Shortly after finishing his architecture studies he won a design competition for a train station in Zurich, and because he had taken the unusual step of getting a second degree in engineering, he soon found himself being sought out to design bridges throughout Europe, a job that ordinarily falls to engineers and rarely...
...Symphony Hall performance opened with two pieces by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto in C major, RV #114, which was played by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenement alone, followed by Bartoli’s rendition of “Gelosia” from Ottone in Villa. The audience was immediately acquainted with the displays of stunning virtuosity and exacting skill that would characterize the evening’s concert...
Harvard’s little-known decision to maintain the Villa i Tatti’s grounds and collections shows a laudable commitment to international culture and the arts—one otherwise all too rare at this University. At first glance, the Villa would be an easy candidate for critique by most undergraduates, who might, with some justification, ask why Harvard can’t provide them a decent gym when it has Tuscan villas lying around. Villa i Tatti ate up a hefty $5 million of the University’s total budget in a recent year...
...With the Villa i Tatti, Harvard is serving as caretaker of cultural and personal legacy: paintings, books, buildings and grounds that epitomize their respective eras and locales. It would be a tragedy—not just to Renaissance scholars, but to human culture—to let them tarnish. Though the occasional guided tour may be the closest most people will get to Berenson’s paintings—a regrettable decision, but one necessary to keep the fragile art and books safe—the Villa frequently funds top-notch restorations of the canvases on its walls. These...
Moreover, the villa gives Harvard an international component that surely benefits both sides of the Atlantic. Harvard is fond of calling itself a “global institution,” though demonstrations of this commitment are harder to come by. But at the villa, scholars come from worldwide, and it demonstrates an attentiveness to the world beyond the narrow confines of Harvard Yard and a history beyond that of the University?...