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...Harvard Arts Medal, an annual honor awarded to alumni that have demonstrated artistic excellence and contributed to raising student interest in the arts, the Office for the Arts announced Wednesday. Durang will be the 12th to add his name to the list of notable alumni artists, including cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76, director Peter Sellers ’80 and author John Updike ’54, who have earned the medal. In May, University President Lawrence H. Summers will present the award to Durang during the 14th annual Arts First celebration, a four-day festival...
...Orchestra, outfiddled a bevy of other musicians this past January to win the BachSoc’s annual two-day Concerto Competition. This Saturday’s concert will contribute to the already-rich history of the Bach Society Orchestra, an organization that has nurtured the likes of cellist Yo-Yo Ma ’76 and composer John Adams ’71. Despite Mozart’s not-so-recent death in 1791, the ever-lively BachSoc’s performance promises to revive his masterful music...
...were sporting. Abstaining from the bubbly, he light-heartedly mocked the celebrants with a sarcastic take on a protest chant overheard at an anti-Summers rally. “Racist, sexist, anti-gay. Larry, Larry, go away!” he shouted. “Larry spits the truth, yo,” he added. –Daniel J. Mandel
...covers, but it will be a few years before he can say how it makes him feel with any honesty. Instead he makes like a mini-Usher and sings as if entertainment were the only thing in the world that matters. On the bona fide radio hits--Run It!, Yo (Excuse Me Miss), Gimme That--he has enough discipline to let the hooks do their work, while on the remaining tracks his charm and clean voice rise above a synthesizer that comes on stronger than Colt 45--era Billy Dee Williams...
...their fields,” according to Ilchman.The program aims to “remind people that immigration makes a positive impact,” he said. “People will realize that you can have laws that keep immigrants out, but you will also keep the Yo-Yo Ma’s out.”A 2006 fellow, Vipin Narang, a Ph.D candidate in Government at Harvard, said that the program helps fellows “figure out how to contribute back to the US and also to their home countries, but mostly to America?...