Arts
A Classical Duet
Cellist Alan M.Toda-Ambaras '13 and pianist Kai-Ching Chang play Luigi Boccherini's Sonata No.1 in F Major G.1. Their classical music recital took place on Saturday afternoon at Cabot House.
Yo-Yo Ma
On Saturday afternoon, Yo-Yo Ma '76 plays with the Silk Road Ensemble as a part of the Cultural Citizenship Symposium, cosponsored by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard. The music accompanied a panel discussion that addressed the meanings and implications of modern cultural citizenship, belonging, and tradition.
In 1971, Harvard Students Seized a Building for International Women's Day
Every week, The Crimson publishes a selection of articles that were printed in our pages in years past.
Tweets Of The Southern Wild
With the ever-tactless Seth MacFarlane for a host, there was never any doubt that this year’s Academy Awards broadcast would ruffle a fair amount of feathers. For all of its other failings, the ceremony certainly delivered spectacularly on that front; it took a scant few minutes for the “Family Guy” creator to offend just about the entire audience in an opening number cleverly titled “I Saw Your Boobs.”
What Happened to Harvard Square's Music Scene?
Decades after the folk revival that helped make the Square a musical hub, new musical venues are opening and old ones continue to succeed. But what has changed over the years, and what’s to come?
Poetry Reading at Houghton to Focus on Ecology
The nearly 600-page collection features formally innovative work in the tradition of the pastoral, an ancient form of lyric poetry celebrating shepherds and rural life. At the same time, these poems address ideas from an ecology perspective.
BPYO Resurrects Mahler
A Mahler enthusiast, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra conductor Benjamin Zander has not conducted one of his favorite works—Mahler’s Symphony No. 2— in 40 years. On Sunday at Symphony Hall, he will rediscover the piece with the Boston Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.
TV In The Age Of Netflix
The February debut of Netflix series “House of Cards” has critics in a frenzy—but not over anything that actually happens on the show. The topic of discussion is instead its method of distribution. The company released all 13 of the series’ episodes on the same day, making it in some ways resemble a long movie more than a traditional television show..
Musical Gluttony And How To Suppress It
I was a junior in high school when it started. Every Saturday morning, I would leave my house in suburban New Jersey and take a train into Manhattan, transfer to the subway, and make my way over to the Manhattan School of Music on the Upper West Side. It was there that I became a musical glutton.
