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...felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it." -Making clear that she won't write about every Royal event that takes place on her watch. (BBC Woman's Hour...
During her time at Harvard, Allison B. Kline ’09 has been involved in over 20 dramatic productions, having the opportunity to produce, direct, act, sing, and build a 20-foot pool on stage. Between her theatrical obligations, she somehow managed to write her thesis for History of Science—on the history of dramatic acting techniques. This Kirkland senior seriously loves theater. Kline seems to have been surrounded by arts in some way throughout most of her life. She studied voice at the La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts but transferred after a year...
...prior vocal experience, he joined the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum as a freshman and has sung with both the Collegium and the Chamber Singers—the Collegium’s Renaissance music subgroup—ever since. “My participation in the Collegium really informed my writing of music and made me think a lot more vocally and contrapuntally about the music I write,” Schachter says of his foray into vocal music. Schachter also plays bass with Kuumba, whose “raw energy and feeling have impacted [his] style of writing...
...Academically, he received a broad education, participating in one of Harvard’s first poetry workshops and immersing himself in the work of Surrealist painters Max Ernst and Joan Miró in a class on 20th century art. Ashbery did write a thesis, on W.H. Auden, though he has always considered himself more of a poet than a critic. “I think of the two as opposites,” he says. “Writing poetry is striking out and finding something you don’t know yet, whereas criticism is dealing with something...
...that he’s retired from teaching at the various university writing programs where he taught in the ’70s and ’80s, Ashbery’s daily schedule is relatively relaxed. He spends much of his day at home in Hudson or New York City reading books of poetry sent to him by publishers, keeping up with current events, and listening to music, mostly twentieth century classical pieces by composers like John Cage and Elliott Carter. “I’m very disorganized,” he laughs...