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Exploring Italy and France | David Bowlin, Violin Spencer Myer, Piano at Longy School of Music
With Stravinsky’s neo-classic “Suite Italienne” and two very different pictures of French music in Debussy and Franck’s Violin Sonatas, Oberlin violin faculty David Bowlin and Longy piano faculty Spencer Myer bring their nearly two-decade collaboration to Longy. Violinist David Bowlin has won critical acclaim for his performances of a wide-ranging repertoire as both a soloist and chamber […]
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Appalachia: A Cultural Crossroads at Cambridge Forum
This forum is a co-production with the Revels organization and will feature performances by musicians Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer and interviews with the Revel’s creative team who will explore the history and roots of traditional music of Appalachia. The Appalachian Mountains south of the Mason-Dixon Line, is one of the birthplaces of American music: the mountains […]
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Examining 400 Years: Mapping Local Legacies of Slavery in New England at Lesley University
Lesley University’s 400 Years initiative is an opportunity to examine what many scholars have identified as the 400th year since the arrival of enslaved Africans in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619, also marking the beginning of institutional slavery on the lands now known as the United States. As a part of our 400 Years programming series, […]
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Round Midnight at Cambridge Public Library
Join the showing of "Round Midnight" and book signing by author Maxine Gordon, Sophisticated Giant: The Life and Legacy of Dexter Gordon. About this Event “With “Sophisticated Giant,” Maxine Gordon has produced a homecoming even more dramatic, and perhaps more important, than the one she helped arrange for him in 1976.” —David Hajdu, New York […]
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Carmen Maria Machado at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes CARMEN MARIA MACHADO—the bestselling, award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties—for a discussion of her highly anticipated new memoir, In the Dream House. She will be joined in conversation by KELLY LINK, master of short fiction and fantasy. This event is co-sponsored by Mass Humanities. About In the Dream House In the Dream […]
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Paul Tough at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store welcomes PAUL TOUGH, the bestselling author of How Children Succeed, for a discussion of his latest book, The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us. He will be joined in conversation by professor ANTHONY ABRAHAM JACK, author of The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students. This event is co-sponsored by […]
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The Dockyard: Combat Obscura at Brattle Theatre
About the Film: Just out of high school, at the age of 18, Miles Lagoze enlisted in the Marine Corps. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Combat Camera — his unit’s official videographer, tasked with shooting and editing footage for the Corps’ recruiting purposes and historical initiatives. But upon discharging, Lagoze took […]
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CCAE’s Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Elizabeth Bradfield and Sara London
Elizabeth Bradfield reads from her new book, Toward Antarctica, with Sara London, whose new collection is Upkeep. Founded in 1973, the award-winning Blacksmith House Poetry Series brings established and emerging writers of poetry and fiction to Harvard Square. The series is sponsored by Cambridge Center for Adult Education and holds readings at the Blacksmith House, […]
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Hannah Siglin at Passim
Hannah Siglin is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist from the Inland Northwest. Raised on folk music and studied in classical training, her songs tangle intricate guitar parts with raw and intimate lyrics, beautiful both stripped down to her guitar and voice, or set over the dynamics of her band—acoustic bass, fiddle, and mandolin. Since moving […]
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