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...Music and Learning From Performers at the Office for the Arts. In 1977, Bagby, a vocalist and harpist, co-founded Sequentia, an internationally acclaimed ensemble that combines vocal and instrumental virtuosity with innovative research and programming to reconstruct the living musical traditions of medieval Europe. Livljanic, a singer and musicologist, trained at the Zagreb Music Conservatory and directs Dialogos, a vocal ensemble specializing in medieval chant and liturgical theatre. The New Yorker proclaimed their concerts combine both “scholarly insight and dramatic verve.” Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. Free. Harvard Divinity School, Andover Hall...
...April, Southern received the National Humanities Medal. At the ceremony, President Bush praised her as “a pioneering musicologist who has helped us understand the power of African-American music...
...several years, the U.S. and China resumed their dialogue over human rights last October, and the Bush Administration has handed lists of political prisoners to Beijing it wants released. The pressure has seemed to pay off. In the weeks before Bush's arrival, China freed three prisoners: Tibetan musicologist and Fulbright scholar Ngawang Choephel, Wang Ce of the banned China Democracy Party and a Hong Kong man, Lai Kwong-keung, who had been sentenced to two years in jail for smuggling unauthorized versions of the Bible into the mainland...
...Toward the end he often soured into rancor and vindictiveness. He laid a paranoid rant on Alec Wilder when the esteemed musicologist asked permission to quote snatches of Berlin songs for his study "American Popular Music." And though Berlin enjoyed writing parodies of other composers' songs, he sued Mad magazine for a 1962 folio of song parodies, including several of his ("Always," "A Pretty Girl..."). The suit was eventually dismissed. Finally he believed that a cultural environment that ignored his contributions was no culture at all. "Show business?" he told a friend. "There's no more show business! We whistle...
Past recipients of the Charles Eliot Norton professorship of poetry have included such luminary figures as Leonard Bernstein ’39, Jorge Luis Borges, e.e. cummings ’15, T. S. Eliot ’10, Robert Frost, Frank Stella and Igor Stravinsky. Musicologist Joseph Kerman was the most recent Norton professor, serving for the 1997-1998 academic year...