Music
These New Puritans
The second album from These New Puritans (TNP), “Hidden,” is an audacious break from the somewhat-restrained alternative rock of their debut, 2008’s “Beat Pyramid,” as Barnett, the group’s songwriter and vocalist, becomes the conductor of a full-blown operatic rock album.
Groove Armada
“Are you ready to fall?” asks “Look Me in the Eye Sister,” the opening track of “Black Light,” Groove Armada’s sixth studio album. The lyric sums up the risk the band has taken on this new LP.
Parra and Randall Hypermusic
Composer Hèctor Parra and physics professor Lisa Randall discuss the challenges of integrating art and science at the New College Theatre on Feb. 24.
Rogue Wave
Rogue Wave haven’t lost their penchant for crafting incredibly appealing hook-laden melodies, which ensure the memorable impression “Permalight” leaves.
Joanna Newsom
“It does not suffice for you to say I am a sweet girl,” croons Joanna Newsom on the final song of “Have One on Me.” Nor does it suffice, after listening to the new album, her third, to marginalize the gifted harpist, pianist, and singer-songwriter any longer.
The Dutiful DJ
Student DJs across campus emphasize the intense, empathic relationship that develops between themselves and an elated (or simply drunk) audience.
Parra and Randall Hypermusic
Composer Hèctor Parra and physics professor Lisa Randall discuss their operatic work, “Hypermusic Prologue: A Projective Opera in Seven Planes,”
Parra and Randall Hypermusic
The collaborators’ talk was sponsored by the Learning From Performers Program.
Wyclef Jean at Cultural Rhythms 2010
In light of Haiti tragedy, the Harvard community gathered to celebrate artist and Haitian humanitarian Wyclef Jean at the annual 25th anniversary Cultural Rhythms show in Sanders Theater on Saturday, February 27, 2010. Spoken Word Society, Asian American Dance Troupe, Ballet Folklórico de Aztlán, Bhangra, Caribbean Club Dance Troupe, Lithuanian Club, Irish American steppers and many more dynamic Harvard student organizations gathered to share their cultural appreciation and talent at the event.
BSO Plays Third and Fourth, Comes Out First
The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) performed Beethoven’s Third (“Eroica”) and Fourth Symphonies under James Levine on February 19 with an ...
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Shearwater
After appreciating the album cover, it is probably best to leave “The Golden Archipelago” alone, as it fails to achieve the quality of music necessary to back up such a powerful message.
Local Natives
On “Gorilla Manor,” Local Natives don’t present anything the audience hasn’t heard before. Instead, they encapsulate the current state of a genre that is characterized by its indefinable nature.