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This time around, the Council began the planning process 6 months in advance. The Council authorized the HCC to plan a fall concert last spring, and got a head start over the summer...
...HCC has also had to hire Harvard personnel to supervise the show, as well as an outside consultant to design an in-depth emergency plan. Acting Associate Dean of the College Judith Kidd wrote in an e-mail that the expensive and complicated procedure for acquiring the license has been the “major hurdle” in the concert planning process...
...coordinate with the Dean’s Office, the Athletic Department and the Office of the General Counsel, as well as several other campus institutions. To make matters even more difficult, last year’s bureaucratic reorganization meant individuals who had originally been working with the HCC, including Illingworth, were removed. A new group of administrators with no background on the issues was brought in halfway through the planning process...
However, all the careful planning would have been in vain without a band, and Boston’s own Guster was a perfect fit. The combination of the $35,000 band fee and $8,000 in production expenses fell within the HCC budget while still allowing for affordable ticket prices...
Guster was also willing to play a much longer set than some of the other acts the HCC had looked at. As a bonus, Katheleen Edwards (Rolling Stone’s Artist of the Year for 2003), who had been touring with the band, has agreed to make Harvard her last date with the band. Working through Pretty Polly Productions, the HCC signed their final contracts with both acts...