Performing & Recorded Arts

Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Music, Noted

The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West

by Anna Zayaruznaya

Spotlight

Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Extracurriculars

Events on and off campus during November and December

Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis

“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard

Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.

Cinema with Gravitas

Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.

by Laura Levis

Staging Magic

The ART launches a sumptuous world premiere of Finding Neverland

by Nell Porter-Brown

Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass

Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.

The Peter Pan Myth, Reinvented

The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.