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...audience may have found it. Although the Silk Road players have since packed up their neys, santurs, and violins to leave for Japan, the Silk Road Project (SRP) has only just begun its five-year residency at Harvard, one that may lead to the development of a new Core course—and a serious reevaluation of the way the university addresses multi-cultural and interdisciplinary studies...
...very concrete way, the ensemble will be acting as a link between the past and present for students in. Knafel Professor of Music Thomas Kelly’s popular Core class, Literature and Arts B-51, “First Nights.” The course focuses on the history of a handful of famous musical premieres, and each year, Kelly asks a professional composer to select musicians and debut a brand new piece in December, allowing the students to experience something like what they’ve studied...
...intriguing step is the possible creation of a new class in the Core Curriculum that would focus on the Silk Road. Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History Mark C. Elliott, co-teacher of Historical Studies A-13 “China: Traditions and Transformations,” has said that he and Shelemay want to lead such a course together...
...Gordon thinks the Silk Road residency is coming at a time when the shifting nature of the Core Curriculum may put the values of the Project at stake for the community at large: “The new curriculum is not likely to have a requirement like Foreign Cultures, nor a Historical Studies requirement per se…so a program like this is great...
Anyone who’s taking the “Art of Film” core will immediately recognize the opening homage in Curtis Hanson’s “In Her Shoes,” as the camera cuts back and forth between parallel scenes of two mobile pairs of shoes cleverly establishing the personalities of their owners. It’s an allusion to the preface of Hitchcock’s “Strangers on a Train” (and no accident either—Hanson’s 1990 film “Bad Influence?...