The New York Times writes “In the past few years Pinderhughes, 30, has been breaking out well beyond the Bay Area, and with the release of ‘Grief,’ he’s emerged as one of the most affecting singer-songwriters today, in any genre.”…
Alumna Natalie Hodges’s book Uncommon Measure in NYT
Describing Uncommon Measure, Natalie Hodges’s (AB ’19) collection of essays and memoir, reviewer Alexandra Jacobs writes “[C]ertainly in Hodges’s prose, you can sense a great freeing-up, what in her original discipline is called rubato, a rare ease. In words, as she could not in notes, she seems able to fruitfully process a tough past and…
Lift Ev’ry Voice Weekend reviewed in I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Reviewer Greg Nahabedian attended the April webinar showcasing Eileen Southern’s work as well as the choral concert featuring the Aeolians of Oakwood University as guest performers, writing that the entire weekend was “a reminder that music can be as joyful and celebratory as it is intellectually challenging.” They particularly highlighted the premiere of a piece…
Hear student pieces from Fall 2021 Music 286R: Listening, Creativity, and Imagination
Listen to projects created for Music 286R Listening, Creativity, and Imagination taught during Fall 2021 by Yvette Janine Jackson. This seminar joined theories from sound studies, music composition, sonic arts, and psychoacoustics by engaging multimodal listening practices as a means of discovery….
New digital tool pairs student compositions with Harvard Art Museum works
Composing the Collections, a new digital tool, presents original music composed by students in Yvette Jackson’s “Introduction to Composition” class in response to artworks at the Harvard Art Museums. Students’ compositions were performed by the Parker Quartet in the Composing the Collections concert, which premiered on YouTube on December 21, 2021….
Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s research forms the basis for a website by the Weatherhead Center
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard has put together a multimedia website that draws on Kay Kaufman Shelemay’s work in her recently published Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora….
Light The Way Home Wins Awards
Light the Way Home: Eileen Southern’s Story, a film produced by Daniel Huang ’22, Uzo Ngwu ’23, and Devon Gates ’23, has won awards for Best Production and Best Reflection of Inclusivity from the Association of Research Libraries. You can read more about the awards here and watch the film on YouTube. Light the Way Home draws on…
Esperanza Spalding wins Best Jazz Vocal Album at the Grammys
Esperanza Spalding won her fifth Grammy for her eighth studio album, Songwrights Apothecary Lab. Read more at Billboard!…
Benjamin Wenzelberg ’21 in Boston Globe
Benjamin Wenzelberg’s senior thesis, NIGHTTOWN — an opera that reimagines two episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses — was produced in March by Lowell House Opera and featured singers Elijah McCormack and Leo Balkovetz, who spoke with the Boston Globe about their experiences as trans opera singers. The most important thing, [Wenzelberg] said, was to give…
Julia Riew’s musical theater senior thesis in CNN
Julia Riew ’22 wrote her senior thesis, Shimcheong, because she wanted to create a Korean Disney princess. Read more at CNN!…