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  1. Music professor Braxton Shelley directs “Due Glory”

    A new member of Harvard's faculty, Shelley leads a performance of his original work at the 2017 National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses’ Alumni Chorale Concert.

  2. Bata

    During their summer tour, members of the Harvard Jazz Bands were immersed in Cuban musical traditions, including the sacred bata drums.

  3. Clave

    During their summer tour, members of the Harvard Jazz Bands were immersed in Cuban musical traditions, including the clave pattern.

  4. National Folkloric Company of Cuba

    The National Folkloric Company of Cuba performs at the Tata Güines museum during the Harvard Jazz Bands’ summer tour of Cuba.

  5. Los Muñequitos de Matanzas

    The legendary rumba band Los Muñequitos de Matanzas performs during the Harvard Jazz Bands’ summer tour of Cuba.

  6. Polyrhythms

    During their summer tour, members of the Harvard Jazz Bands were immersed in Cuban musical traditions, including polyrhythms.

  7. Tipica

    Orquesta Típica Miguel Failde, named for the bandleader who originated danzón in 1879, performs at José White Concert Hall during the Harvard Jazz Bands’ summer tour of Cuba.

  8. A Charlie Brown Christmas At Harvard

    Harvard Law School’s Brad Conner, an accomplished pianist, talks about his love for the Peanuts holiday special “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” and plays from its evocative score by jazz composer and pianist Vince Guaraldi.

  9. StoryCorps and Corita Kent at the Harvard Art Museums

    The Harvard Art Museums worked with the national oral history project StoryCorps and National Grid to record conversations about the artist Corita Kent in conjunction with the exhibition "Corita Kent and the Language of Pop.” This audio sampler pulls from conversations with Mary Anne Karia, John...

  10. Diane Paulus on the A.R.T.'s 2015-16 season

    Diane Paulus, the A.R.T.’s Terrie and Bradley Bloom Artistic Director, discusses the upcoming season and the importance of theater in telling stories.

  11. A priceless purple

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains the aquatic origins of Tyrian purple.

  12. Synthetic blue

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how the creation of a synthetic substance, which was chemically identical to the pigment produced from the semiprecious stone lapis lazuli, opened up a new world of blue hues to artists.

  13. Green poison

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains how artists often took risks to create their works, using poisonous pigments like emerald green to get the color just right.

  14. Cadmium yellow

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses the use of cadmium yellow by the Impressionists.

  15. Kermes is for crimson

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar explains that the rich kermes red pigment was created by grinding up the dried bodies of insects that lived on the kermes oak tree.

  16. Metals in metallic paint

    Director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies Narayan Khandekar discusses how the use of tiny metallic flakes suspended in a binding medium can give artworks a shining finish.

  17. Ted Fitzgerald

    Boston Herald staff photographer Ted Fitzgerald has photographed Harvard Commencement since 1986. He speaks about photographing Amy Poehler in 2011 and the overall spirit of Commencement in the Yard.

  18. Neal Hamberg

    Bloomberg News freelance photographer Neal Hamberg has photographed Harvard Commencement since 1981. He speaks about photographing Bill Gates in 2007.

  19. Elise Amendola

    Associated Press staff photographer Elise Amendola has photographed Harvard Commencement since 1991. She speaks about photographing Oprah Winfrey in 2013 and Yo-Yo Ma ‘76 in 1991.

  20. Brian Snyder

    Reuters staff photographer Brian Snyder has photographed Harvard Commencement since 1989. He speaks about photographing Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Plácido Domingo in 2011.

  21. Sitting on a rhythm

    Vijay Iyer discusses practicing with bandmates in his New York City apartment, where they would often work on a single rhythm for hours.

  22. The art of Iyer

    Iyer and his Vijay Iyer Trio performed and took questions from the audience in Holden Chapel during an Office for the Arts Learning From Performers event in April.

  23. Medieval female voices at Harvard (warmup exercises)

    In lieu of a final exam, students in "Women's Voices in German Medieval Literature" created a final performance of spoken word and song.

  24. Medieval female voices at Harvard

    In lieu of a final exam, students in "Women's Voices in German Medieval Literature" created a final performance of spoken word and song.

  25. A.O. Scott on the Oscars

    In the second of a two-part interview with Harvard Gazette writer Colleen Walsh, Harvard graduate and chief film critic for The New York Times A.O. Scott discuses how the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences selects its winners.

  26. Ralph Ellison on a writer’s role

    Ralph Ellison says writers are meant to write, not engage in direct protest — that "grappling with reality in terms of art” is hard enough.

  27. Ralph Ellison on the novelist’s ‘delight'

    Ralph Ellison explains the advantages of writing in the first person, and the novelist’s “delight in putting over a good yarn, a good lie.”

  28. What is spoken word?

    Speak Out Loud members Melanie Wang '15, Awais Hussain '15, and Olu Animashaun '14 discuss the art of spoken word in this interview with WHRB.

  29. 'Mona Has a Big New Problem'

    Melanie Wang '15 performs this poem live on WHRB.

  30. A reading of the Gettysburg Address

    The Gettysburg Address as read by John Stauffer, professor of English and of African and African-American studies, Jonathan Walton, Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, Zora and Elijah Walton, and Harvard President Drew Faust.

  31. Soundbytes: Chloe Garcia Roberts, Part 2

    A Reading in English and Mandarin of Poetry by Li Shangyin, Part 2 Read more: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/12/found-in-translation-2/

  32. Soundbytes: Chloe Garcia Roberts, Part 1

    A Reading in English and Mandarin of Poetry by Li Shangyin, Part 1 Read more: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/11/poets-meet-translators/

  33. Soundbytes: Judith Palfrey on Un Buen Comienzo

    Judith Palfrey, Harvard's Harvard’s T. Berry Brazelton Professor of Pediatrics, discusses the work of Un Buen Comienzo, an early childhood initiative in Chile supported by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Harvard Medical School. Read more:...

  34. You can't learn physics without breaking a few eggs

    A hands-on approach to teaching and learning in AP 50 helps Harvard undergraduates learn the foundational concepts in physics by applying them to real-world situations. “I’ve never taken a class like this before," says Bernadette Lin '16, "but I really love it.” Read more about AP 50 at...

  35. Soundbytes: Isamar Vega

    Read more at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/hub-away-from-home/

  36. Soundbytes: Jenny Zhang

    Read more at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/hub-away-from-home/

  37. Soundbytes: Miranda Mckinley Ravicz

    Read more at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/hub-away-from-home/

  38. Soundbytes: Shahil Mehta

    Read more at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/09/hub-away-from-home/

  39. Anatomy of a villanelle | Soundbytes

    In an interview last year, Seamus Heaney reflected on writing a villanelle to mark Harvard’s 350th anniversary in 1986. “There’s a performance element to it,” he said of the song-like poetic form of 19 lines used brilliantly by Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, and just a few others. Read it too...

  40. Tsitsi Jaji || A Corn Song || Radcliffe Institute

    Tsitsi Jaji, a Radcliffe Institute fellow in 2012-2013, performs “A Corn Song” by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as a part of her article in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth Century Americanists (PennPress, 2013) (link: http://j19.pennpress.org), “Art Song Poetics: Performing Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s...

  41. Gazmend Kapllani || Tales of Extreme || Radcliffe Institute

    Gazmend Kapllani discusses the parallel lives of the Albanian communist dictator Enver Hoxha and Albania’s first woman writer, Musine Kokalari, who was imprisoned by the dictator’s regime.

  42. Hip hop Harvard

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2010/11/hip-hop-harvard/

  43. The space in between

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/01/the-space-in-between/

  44. A sort of homecoming

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this Sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/03/a-sort-of-homecoming/

  45. Breaking the sound barrier

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this Sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/03/breaking-the-sound-barrier/

  46. A tale of two sisters

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this Sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/09/a-tale-of-two-sisters/

  47. The sounds of nature as music

    Sound files included in Harvard Gazette stories. Visit the Harvard Gazette at: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/ Read more about this sound here: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/10/the-sounds-of-nature-as-music/

  48. Neba Solo: Music for Peace in Mali || Radcliffe Institute

    Neba Solo presents a concert of his virtuosic xylophone music and his socially conscious lyrics. Playing with his brother, Siaka Traoré, Neba Solo debuts his most recent composition, which calls for peace in Mali. In his lyrics, one can trace the history of the political and social problems that...

  49. David McCann sings "Azaleas"

    David McCann sings "Azaleas," a poem by Sowol Kim (1902-1934). The poem was titled "Folksong Poem" when first published in Kaebyôk magazine in 1923. McCann pairs the poem with his ukulele rendition of the traditional song "Barb'ra Ellen." Read more about this sound here:...

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