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…
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…