Harvard University Department of Music
The Music Department offers both undergraduate and graduate programs. Additionally, the department sponsors numerous concerts, colloquia, lectures and special music events each month, which are free to students and the public.
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The Harvard New Music Ensemble, led by Claire Chase, performed music by Susie Ibarra at Joe’s Pub in NYC this spring.
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In Memoriam: Frank D’Accone (1931 – 2022)
Frank Anthony D’Accone, an American musicologist who made foundational contributions to our understanding of musical culture in Renaissance Florence and Siena, died at his home in
Laguna Beach on Sunday, 26 June 2022.
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