Performing & Recorded Arts
Faith through Film
The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies
by Max J. Krupnick
Musical Mentor
Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.
by Krysten A. Keches
Tale of a Hamptons Town and a Troubled Filmmaker
The Boston Globe reviews The Windmill Movie, a film about Richard Rogers ’67, edited and directed by his former filmmaking student, Alexander Olch ’99.
The Hajj, Screened Large
"Journey to Mecca," co-produced by Taran Davies ’93, is a new IMAX film about the Hajj.
by Craig Lambert
The Windmill Movie
Filmmaker Alexander Olch has made an biographical documentary based on footage left behind by his mentor, Richard Rogers.
by Craig Lambert
Music, Taken Personally
A music critic reviews composer John Adams’s memoir.
Diaghilev and His Geniuses
The Harvard Theatre Collection opens an exhibition and hosts a symposium on Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
by Craig Lambert
Pardis Sabeti
For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.
Song for Hard Times
The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.
A Scourge Remembered
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
by Elizabeth Gudrais
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
by Craig Lambert