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Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Branford Marsalis will conduct a conversation on his career and creative process and lead a clinic with students in the Harvard Jazz Bands. This event is co-sponsored by the Celebrity Series of Boston. Marsalis and his...

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Marin Alsop, Music Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra, is the recipient of Harvard University's Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award, which perpetuates the...

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Jonathan Shecter '90, aka Shecky Green, a music and media professional who co-founded the hip-hop music and culture magazine The Source and is now editor in chief of the online publication Cuepoint, and Dan Freeman '97, aka Cm1x, a producer/bassist and music...

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Pianist, composer and bandleader Vijay Iyer a MacArthur Fellow, a Grammy nominee, and, since 2014, the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard will conduct a conversation with his award-winning trio (Marcus Gilmore, drums; Stephan Crump,...

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David DeBoor Canfield of Fanfare Magazine hails the artistic voice of Tania Leon as utterly distinctive, and once one has listened to her music for any length of time, it will not be mistaken as the work of any other composer. Leon will discuss her career which...

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Tenor saxophonist George Coleman and pianist Harold Mabern natives of Memphis, Tennessee, whose distinctive hard bop sound incorporates influences from rhythm and blues, gospel and blues will discuss their careers during a public conversation moderated by Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of...