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‘Accidental opera composer’ speaks

As a young man, John Adams didn’t like opera. “I never listened to opera as a kid. I didn’t like the operatic voice or the stiff posturing of opera performances.” Today Adams calls himself “an...

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Eggleston’s formula: Hard science and the joy of art

As a toddler, Sarah Skye Eggleston ’07 of Quincy House wore a Harvard jumpsuit — the stuff of parental dreams. It worked. Eggleston worked too. The 21-year-old opera producer, music buff, and math whiz...

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Bright, imaginative season in offing

Here’s a party for you. Julius Caesar is sipping wine with Don Juan, Figaro, Mozart, and an art teacher from the Bronx. Two atomic bomb theorists are in deep conversation, while a troubled teenager...

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A new kind of aria from Dershowitz

“Yo-Yo Ma was over the house yesterday … he was begging me to go to the piano and play a few notes and I said I wasn’t ready yet.” While the renowned composer John Williams could have uttered those...

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E-mail collaboration yields chamber opera

Critics say that composer Elena Ruehr – a Radcliffe Fellow this year – makes music that is challenging, natural, intelligent, and socially aware. She brought all of these qualities to a Feb. 13...

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Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson dies at 62

Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection and resident of Watertown, Mass., died on May 15 of pancreatic cancer. He was 62. In his 13 years at Harvard, Wilson curated more...

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Hot, hot, hot

Blame it on the heat wave. Last year’s season-opening production at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) was the smash disco hit “The Donkey Show,” which was so popular it’s still running. Now on...

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Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Doctor of Laws Sir Timothy Berners-Lee – Doctor of Science Plácido Domingo – Doctor of Music Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Doctor of Laws Dudley Herschbach – Doctor of Science James R....

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Of the bean I sing

Ten years ago, Venezuelan musician and composer Paul Desenne was teaching cello — his primary instrument — in an old tin-roofed studio atop a building in Caracas. One day he noticed a dot of sunlight...

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Making ‘Nixon in China’

It was a move that fundamentally changed the nature of U.S.-China relations and ushered in a vital new era of diplomacy and international development. In 1972, President Richard Nixon traveled to the...

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Strong showing for musicals with A.R.T. ties

Two Broadway shows with origins at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) cleaned up at the Tony Awards on Sunday night. “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess” and “Once” took home 10 awards in total,...

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Abbate named University Professor

Carolyn Abbate, one of the world’s most accomplished and admired music historians, has been named to become a University Professor, Harvard’s highest honor for a faculty member.  Her appointment as...

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‘Accidental opera composer’ speaks

As a young man, John Adams didn’t like opera. “I never listened to opera as a kid. I didn’t like the operatic voice or the stiff posturing of opera performances.” Today Adams calls himself “an...

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Eggleston’s formula: Hard science and the joy of art

As a toddler, Sarah Skye Eggleston ’07 of Quincy House wore a Harvard jumpsuit — the stuff of parental dreams. It worked. Eggleston worked too. The 21-year-old opera producer, music buff, and math...

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Bright, imaginative season in offing

Here’s a party for you. Julius Caesar is sipping wine with Don Juan, Figaro, Mozart, and an art teacher from the Bronx. Two atomic bomb theorists are in deep conversation, while a troubled teenager...

View Article


A new kind of aria from Dershowitz

“Yo-Yo Ma was over the house yesterday … he was begging me to go to the piano and play a few notes and I said I wasn’t ready yet.” While the renowned composer John Williams could have uttered those...

View Article

E-mail collaboration yields chamber opera

Critics say that composer Elena Ruehr – a Radcliffe Fellow this year – makes music that is challenging, natural, intelligent, and socially aware. She brought all of these qualities to a Feb. 13...

View Article


Harvard Theatre Collection Curator Fredric Woodbridge Wilson dies at 62

Fredric Woodbridge Wilson, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection and resident of Watertown, Mass., died on May 15 of pancreatic cancer. He was 62. In his 13 years at Harvard, Wilson curated more...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Hot, hot, hot

Blame it on the heat wave. Last year’s season-opening production at the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) was the smash disco hit “The Donkey Show,” which was so popular it’s still running. Now on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Harvard awards 9 honorary degrees

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – Doctor of Laws Sir Timothy Berners-Lee – Doctor of Science Plácido Domingo – Doctor of Music Ruth Bader Ginsburg – Doctor of Laws Dudley Herschbach – Doctor of Science James R....

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