| Date | Title/Description | |
|---|---|---|
| 4/26/12 | actor TOMMY LEE JONES Actor and director Tommy Lee Jones ’69 is the recipient of the 2012 Harvard Arts Medal, which honors a distinguished Harvard or Radcliffe graduate or faculty member who has achieved excellence in the arts and has made a contribution through the arts to education or the public good. The Medal will be awarded by Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust at a ceremony hosted by actor John Lithgow ’67, who will moderate a discussion with Jones on his life and career. Admission is free, but tickets are required; limit of two tickets per person. Ticket distribution begins Tuesday, April 17 for Harvard affiliates, and Thursday, April 19 for the general public. Information: 617.496.2222 (TTY: 617.495.1642), http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/details.php?ID=42968 Details | |
| 4/24/12 | Meet multimedia artist David Michalek Meet multimedia artist David Michalek, whose 2007 installation Slow Dancing has been praised by the New York Times as "...an unforgettable dance-meets-film-technology evening." Joining the artist for this informal discussion will be one of the performers depicted in Slow Dancing: Jill Johnson, Director of the Office for the Arts' Dance Program and Senior Lecturer, Department of Music. Details | |
| 4/20/12 | visual artist DAVID MICHALEK David Michalek, creator of “Slow Dancing,” an outdoor multi-screen installation featuring larger-than-life, hyper-slow-motion video portraits of dancers and choreographers, will discuss his work during a conversation moderated by Giuliana Bruno, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, with Jill Johnson, Director, OFA Dance Program and Senior Lecturer, Department of Music; hosted by Drew Gilpin Faust, President, Harvard University. A reception to follow. “Slow Dancing” will have its Boston premiere presented by the OFA Public Art Program and ARTS FIRST, with support from the Office of the President and Harvard Campus Services, April 20-29; it will be projected on the façade of Widener Library in Harvard Yard 7-11 pm nightly. Details | |
| 4/18/12 | saxophonist/composer DAVID LIEBMAN nternational saxophone icon David Liebman will lead a free master class with Harvard student musicians during his two-day residency, which also includes the world concert premiere of “The Liebman Concerto,” performed by Liebman and the Dudley House Orchestra on Thursday, April 19 at 8 pm in Paine Hall. Tickets and information: 617.496.2222, http://ofa.fas.harvard.edu/cal/details.php?ID=42966 Liebman’s residency is presented by Dudley House with support from Learning From Performers and Harvard Department of Music. Details | |
| 4/16/12 | Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, ROBERT BATTLE
Appointed Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July of last year, choreographer Robert Battle will discuss his career and the continuing significance of the Ailey legacy during a conversation moderated by Jill Johnson, Director, Office for the Arts at Harvard Dance Program. Presented by OFA Learning From Performers, OFA Dance Program and Celebrity Series of Boston. Admission free and open to the public; general admission seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Details | |
| 4/16/12 | Visiting Artist Workshop with Peter Pincus “The Pincus Method” Visiting Artist Workshop with Peter Pincus April 16, Monday, 3:30 - 5:00 pm Presented by the Ceramics Program in collaboration with the Arts in Education Program at Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Artist Peter Pincus will demonstrate his unique approach toward making precise and colorful ceramic containers while talking about the importance of extravagant vessels in contemporary culture. This workshop is only open to the Harvard Community and studio participants. Details | |
| 4/12/12 | ‘Round Midnight, 1986 film featuring Blue Note artists ‘Round Midnight, 1986 film featuring Blue Note artists Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock, at 7 pm; and Les Liaisons Dangereuses, 1959 film with a score by Blue Note artist Thelonious Monk, at 9:30 pm. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle St. Admission for both features: $12, students $10; for one feature: $9.75, students $7.75. Information: 617.876.6837, www.brattlefilm.org Details | |
| 4/11/12 | screening of “Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz” with record producer and writer MICHAEL CUSCUNA An authority on Blue Note Records, Michael Cuscuna will introduce a screening at the Brattle Theatre of “Blue Note: A Story of Modern Jazz,” Julian Benedikt’s 1997 documentary about the pioneering jazz record label founded over 70 years ago. This event is part of “Blue Note Records, Then and Now,” a week-long celebration presented by the Office for the Arts’ Jazz Program and Harvard Jazz Bands. Details | |
| 4/02/12 | composer OSVALDO GOLIJOV with the ST. LAWRENCE STRING QUARTET The St. Lawrence String Quartet will perform selections from a new composition by acclaimed Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov inspired by the biblical book of Ecclesiastes. Golijov will discuss Jewish themes in his work with Harvard Hillel Executive Director Rabbi Jonah Steinberg, and take questions from the audience. Presented by Harvard Hillel with support from Learning From Performers, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies and Harvard Department of Music. Details | |
| 3/30/12 | pianist MENAHEM PRESSLER Hailed by the New York Times as “…a poet, time and again revealing unexpected depths in works that have been endlessly plumbed and surveyed,” Menahem Pressler will conduct a master class with undergraduate pianists, co-sponsored by the Harvard Piano Society. Details | |
| 3/05/12 | playwright ELLA HICKSON London’s The Independent has hailed Ella Hickson as a bold theatrical voice of a new generation “conscientiously carving her niche with a set of engaged and engaging dramas which pit the realities of life as a young Briton against a lyrical, romantic and occasionally macabre background.” She will discuss her work—including “Hot Mess,” which will have its Boston area premiere as an undergraduate production at the Loeb Ex, February 23-March 3—during a conversation moderated by Joshua McTaggart ’13. Details | |
| 2/17/12 | conductor/composer/musicologist VLADIMIR MOROSAN One of the leading experts outside Russia in the fields of Russian choral music and Orthodox liturgical music, Vladimir Morosan will lecture on “Alexandre Gretchaninoff's ‘Passion Week,’ op 58 (1911), and the Passion in the Eastern Church.” Dr. Morosan will also deliver a pre-concert talk on Saturday, February 18 at 7 pm at Sanders Theatre prior to an 8 pm concert by the Harvard-Radcliffe Musicum Concert featuring a performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's “All Night Vigil (Vespers),” op 37 (1915). Details | |
| 2/09/12 | composers/musicians DEAN & BRITTA Alt-music duo Dean & Britta—Dean Wareham ‘85 and Britta Phillips—formerly of the rock band Luna, will discuss their careers and creative process during a conversation with music and video clips moderated by Harvard University professor Jonathan Zittrain. Details | |
| 1/23/12 | Silk Road Project: Works-in-Progress Performance and Q&A with Composers The Silk Road Ensemble comes to Harvard after a much-lauded performance at globalFEST in New York City. The group also recently performed at the Kennedy Center Honors in tribute to its artistic director, Yo-Yo Ma. Details | |
| 12/06/11 | TV writer/producer AGNES NIXON Dubbed “the Queen of Soap Operas” for her work on “All My Children” and other groundbreaking daytime dramas, writer/producer Agnes Nixon will discuss her career during a conversation and Q&A co-sponsored by the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations and Learning From Performers. Details | |
| 11/17/11 | visual artist ALEXIS ROCKMAN - CANCELLED According to painter Alexis Rockman, “My artworks are information-rich depictions of how our culture perceives and interacts with plants and animals, and the role culture plays in influencing the direction of natural history.” Rockman will present a slide-lecture on his current project, “Battle Royal,” followed by an audience Q&A, co-sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and Arts @ 29 Garden. Details | |
| 11/14/11 | Early Music conductor STEPHEN STUBBS Artistic Director of Seattle’s Pacific MusicWorks and Artistic Co-Director of the Boston Early Music Festival, Stephen Stubbs will teach a master class with the cast of the Harvard Early Music Society’s production of Francesco Cavalli’s “La Calisto.” Details | |
| 11/12/11 | CANCELLED: percussion ensemble SAMULNORI Founded and led by Kim Duk-Soo, master of the “changgo” (hourglass-shaped drum), SamulNori’s dancing percussionists play music based on 5,000-year-old Korean shamanist traditions. The ensemble will conduct a lecture-demonstration co-sponsored by World Music/CRASH Arts. Details | |
| 11/07/11 | conductor NICHOLAS McGEGAN Hailed by the London Independent as “one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation” and The New Yorker as “an expert in 18th-century style,” Nicholas McGegan, music director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, will lead a master class with the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra and the University Choir. Details | |
| 11/04/11 | playwrights CHARLES BUSCH and MATTHEW LOMBARDO Playwright/actor Charles Busch (“Psycho Beach Party,” “Vampire Lesbians of Sodom,” “The Divine Sister,” “The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife”) and playwright Matthew Lombardo (“Tea at Five,” “Looped,” “High”) will discuss their work during an informal conversation sponsored by A.R.T. / Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theatre Training and Learning From Performers. Details |
