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All fired up
A lush world of creativity, one that has been part of University life for four decades, lies just past Harvard Stadium, nestled amid a cluster of University utility buildings, in the kind of...
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Undergrads act up
On a recent bitter January morning, Marcus Stern encouraged a group of Harvard undergraduates to experiment with citrus. “What would happen,” he asked them, “if you stuck an orange under each armpit?”...
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Red hot for bluegrass
Look for a fire shortly in the Thompson Room at Harvard’s Barker Center: a collection of musicians and scholars burning to play bluegrass. Or at least to talk about it. “Fire on the Mountain: A...
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Ending on a high note
A few minutes in Jameson “Jim” Marvin’s presence, and it’s easy to guess his line of work. The man likes to use his hands. It’s a useful trait for a music conductor. But Marvin, who has led Harvard’s...
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Hooray for Harvardwood
Actor John Lithgow, a 1967 Harvard College graduate, has this advice for students wanting to follow his path: Don’t do it. Success in the entertainment industry is a gambler’s bet, and he said...
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Harvard at 375
Harvard will turn 375 this fall, ready to celebrate its vibrant present and promising future. But every anniversary is predicated on a past — often a faraway time that in retrospect seems humble. In...
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Arts prove intensive
DJ Super Squirrel helped students to rock the house. Television producer Carlton Cuse ’81 connected undergraduates to their inner TV genius. The Harvard Breakers tore up the floor with hip-hop dancers...
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Tripping the arts fantastic
On a recent afternoon, amid the buzz of preparations for Harvard’s annual Arts First extravaganza, the man who helps pull it all together sat in his office, surrounded by posters of past undergraduate...
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Embracing the arts
Most birthday celebrations don’t include 100 music, dance, theater, and multimedia events in a dozen venues featuring more than 1,000 performers. But then, this was no ordinary birthday. It was the...
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Club Passim plays to its Harvard audience
Marblehead native Hayley Reardon was just 11 years old when she picked up the guitar. A year later, she had written her own songs and wanted to perform onstage. Wary of having her play in a bar, her...
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The shape of things to come
The Office for the Arts’ Ceramics Program, one of Harvard’s longest and most celebrated, moved this month from its home of 26 years at 219 Western Ave. in Allston just a few blocks down to 224. The...
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‘The Kid Who Would Be Pope’
Jack Megan was making his way across Harvard’s campus on a bitter January afternoon in 2013 when his brother Tom called, desperate to read him a letter. Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim had written to...
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Making art, making community
The title of a new, student-led public art installation, created in response to the results of the Association of American Universities-led sexual conduct survey distributed to every degree-seeking...
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Creative, cultured, and diverse
The staff members’ bright purple shirts read simply: “MAKE ART.” For the four days of Harvard’s annual Arts First festival, students, faculty, and others did just that. Arts First, which ran from...
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Harvard’s Arts First celebrates 25 years
It isn’t an overstatement to say that Arts First has had a profound effect on the tens of thousands of students who have participated in the annual spring festival. “I am always struck at each year’s...
View ArticleTom Lee, head of Harvard’s Learning from Performers program, is stepping down
Dan Hurlin doesn’t have the name recognition of Plácido Domingo, or Renée Fleming, or Lin-Manuel Miranda. But Hurlin, an American puppeteer and playwright, is among the long list of artists who have...
View ArticleNell Scovell ’82 schools Harvard students in joke writing
Nell Scovell ’82 has been one of Hollywood’s funniest writers for more than 30 years, working on “The Simpsons,” “Monk,” (the original) “Murphy Brown,” “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and as the...
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Harvard’s Arts First: 4 days of performances, activities, installations
One artist will attempt to dig a hole to the other side of the planet. A group of first-years will perform an entirely student-produced musical about love and work set 35,000 feet in the air. Twenty...
View ArticleStudent Composers Festival hits right note
The pandemic shut down concert stages and music halls, but not Harvard’s student composers. They continued creating, and will show off their latest work at this week’s virtual Harvard Student Composers...
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Arts First festival, coming soon to a screen near you
Danielle Davis ’21 has helped produce the annual Arts First festival for three years, and loved seeing campus explode with art and performance during the three-day spring extravaganza. So when the...
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‘Arts First has come back to life’
“Arts First has come back to life. You just feel it,” said John Lithgow ’67, Art.D. ’05. He should know. The festival’s founder and returning ambassador was on hand as it came back to campus for a...
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