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Arts Feature: “Sesame Street” Comes to Harvard University to Celebrate Turning 50

The highly entertaining gala celebrated the five decade long partnership between TV’s Sesame Street and Harvard University.

By: Susan Miron Filed Under: Featured, Television Tagged: harvard-university, Lawrence Bacow, Sesame Street

Fuse Concert Review: Creative Music Convergences, Concert One

Live, the experience of a cosmic rhythm with every stroke is both more intense and more intriguing than on record.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, ECM, Fromm Concerts, harvard-university, Nasreen Mohamedi, Nicole Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, Wadda Leo Smith

Jazz CD Review: Vijay Iyer and Wadada Leo Smith — Exploring Cosmic Possibilities in Sound

Pianist Vijay Iyer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith produce music that is precise and quietly evocative, peaceful and gently probing.

By: Michael Ullman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: A Cosmic Rhythm With Each Stroke, ECM, Fromm Concerts, harvard-university, Nasreen Mohamedi, Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith

Jazz Week 2014: Wall-to-Wall Jazz with No Walls

Sax doctor Emilio Lyons at work.

Jazz Week 2014′s theme of “No Walls: A salute to the power of jazz to bring people together” emphasizes the place of jazz on the world stage.

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Preview, World Music Tagged: Berklee College of Music, Berklee Global Jazz Institute, Boston Jazz Week, Boston Public Library, Boston Public Schools, Danilo Perez, Emilio Lyons, Fred Taylor, harvard-university, Herbie Hancock, International Jazz Day, Jazz Appreciation Month, Jazz April, Jazz Journalists Association, JazzBoston, Mark Harvey, MIT, New England Conservatory, Smithsonian Institution, UNESCO

Fuse Museum Notes: The American Folk Art Museum goes down, Harvard Art Museums go dark

Significant changes in the world of the art museum can trigger roiling controversy or transpire in problematic quiet.

By: Harvey Blume Filed Under: Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: American Folk Art Museum, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard-Art-Museums, harvard-university, Museum of Modern Art, Short Fuse

Coming Attractions at Museums: March 2013

The month’s standouts include Nick Cave’s Soundsuits at the Peabody-Essex Museum and two exhibitions at MassMoCA.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Carpenter Center, harvard-university, Life’s Work: Tom Phillips and Johnny Carrera, Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, MassMOCA, Nick Cave, Orson Squire Fowler, Peabody Essex Museum, Soundsuits, Tom Phillips

Visual Arts Review: The Sounds of “Unreal Memories”

Sound artist Tutschku employs audio selections that are briefly broadcast periodically throughout the course of the day to startle and surprise listeners, to crack the shell of our typically prosaic and hectic modern lives.

By: Margaret Weigel Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Hans Tutschku, harvard-university, Unreal Memories

Concert Review: Lowell House Opera Presents “Snegurochka”

Although there is room for improvement, the singers engage each other, as well as the orchestra, with vigor and skill, making for a satisfying “Snegurochka” in Russian.

By: Melanie O'Neil Filed Under: Classical Music, Featured, Music, Opera Tagged: harvard-university, Lidiya Yankovskaya, Lowell House Opera, Snegurochka, The Snow Maiden

Film Interview: Helen Whitney — Film as Spiritual Autobiography

Award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney: “My films form a kind of spiritual autobiography. I’m always searching for subjects that allow me to ask the big questions: Why are we here? Why must we die? Is this all there is?”

By: Peter-Adrian Cohen Filed Under: Featured, Film Tagged: documentary, harvard-university, Helen Whitney, Noble Lectures, religion, spirituality

Classical Music Review: The Chiara Quartet — An Adventurous Musical Journey

Traveling the world is satisfying, but no more so than journeys of the mind. The musical voyage I took with the Chiara Quartet was a trip worth savoring.

By: Anthony Palmer Filed Under: Classical Music, Music Tagged: Boldgett Chamber Music Series, Chaira Quartet, harvard-university

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