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!…