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
Laughter and Lyrics—Legally
Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.
by Dick Friedman
A Harmonious Revolution
Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.
by Karolina Brook
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” Stirs Controversy at Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.
All the World’s a Page
New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Harpsichords Extraordinaire
Two keyboards, each with a story to tell
by Craig Lambert
Funkin’ It Up
Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.
Joyful Noise
Harvard’s Collegium Musicum celebrates the power of music as therapy.
by Jessica Salley
Music as Predictor of Social Change
French economist Jacques Attali discusses music as a metaphor for civil society.
Steven Spielberg’s “Family of Strangers”
The filmmaker discusses his influences and inspirations.