The Harvard Gazette sat down with Professor Charrise Barron for a Q&A about her teaching, and current book project. GAZETTE: Could you talk about your current book project, which was the focus of your research leave? BARRON: My current book project is called “The Platinum Age of Gospel.” That’s 1993 to 2013. I’m naming that era…
Elson Lecture Recap: “In stutter, artist finds voice”
The Harvard Gazette featured JJJJJerome Ellis’ Elson Lecture for a recap writing, “Jerome Ellis embraces onetime ‘curse’ in works inspired by nature and Blackness.”…
Siriana Lundgren: Drag Bans in US History
Music Department Graduate Student Siriana Lundgren recently wrote an op ed for Teen Vogue titled Drag Bans in US History: Restrictions on Drag Performance Are Nothing New in States Like Montana. The piece was published June 30, 2023 and is available to read on the Teen Vogue website….
Professors Charrise Barron and Alejandro Madrid join the Music Department
The Music Department is excited to welcome Professors Charrise Barron and Alejandro Madrid to the faculty. Assistant Professor of Music Charrise Barron is an ethnomusicologist and scholar of African American religious and cultural history. Her research, writing, and presentations have explored a range of topics in African American music, religion, and culture. Her current…
ARTS FIRST Festival April 27–30
The Harvard Music Department is proud to announce the names of the music concentrators taking part in ARTS FIRST, Harvard’s annual festival of faculty and student creativity, taking place April 27–30, 2023. The full list of music participants, as well as the events they will be performing at, is below. For more information about ARTS…
The Fromm Music Foundation Announces 2022 Commission Recipients, Prize Winners, and Project Grant Recipients
The Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard University is pleased to announce the 2022 commission and project grant recipients, as well as the winner of the Fromm Music Foundation Prize. Each year, the Fromm Music Foundation accepts applications for commissions of new music, and awards commissions to fourteen American composers. The Fromm Music Foundation commissions represent…
Davóne Tines makes his Celebrity Series of Boston Debut
On Wednesday, April 26 at 8:00pm, Harvard graduate Davóne Tines will perform at Bard College’s Pickman Hall as part of the Celebrity Series of Boston. Bass-baritone Davóne Tines, Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of the Year, brings an ambitious and brilliantly curated program entitled “Recital No. 1: MASS.” Tines invites listeners to recontextualize Bach arias, Caroline…
NYT features Samora Pinderhughes’s new album
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…