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
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
Advice on Art and Life from Yo-Yo Ma
The cello virtuoso speaks to students interested in arts careers, and President Faust announces progress on arts offerings.
Zellweger Gets Her Pudding Pot
Traffic came to a stop in Harvard Square today for a parade with Renée Zellweger, the Hasty Pudding "woman of the year."
Chiara String Quartet
The Chiara String Quartet are Harvard's current Blodgett Artists-in-Residence.
The Force Was With Them
Kevin Rafferty has made a documentary film, Harvard Beats Yale 29-29, about the 1968 football game.
Alex Ross Wins MacArthur
Music critic Alex Ross ’90 has just been named a MacArthur Fellow for his encyclopedic first book...
An Argument for Music
Critic Alex Ross keeps "classical" music current...
by Paul Gleason
Two Musical Neighborhoods
Harvard professor Lewis Lockwood and the Julliard String Quartet have collaborated on Inside Beethoven's Quartets: History, Performance, Interpretation...
Thoroughly Eclectic
Performer Eisa Davis, now starring on Broadway in Passing Strange, stays open to her many artistic passions, including playwriting (Bulrusher, Angela's Mixtape) and singing (her devut album is Something Else)...
by Julia Wallace