2022 Jun 03
25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival
6:30pm to 11:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for the premiere screening of Community Art Center’s 25th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country. Come early for a musical performance by Lisa Bello and snacks in the Calderwood Courtyard. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow the screening.
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2022 Feb 26
Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Concert 3 (Season 214)
8:00pm to 10:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
In the third concert of our 214th season, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will be premiering the third movement of Hannah Lash’s Forestallings in celebration of our conductor Federico Cortese’s 10th anniversary with the orchestra.
Dr. Lash is a 2010 PhD alumnus of Harvard who is now a faculty member and conductor at the Yale School of Music. We will also be playing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, featuring concerto competition winner Kevin Miura ‘25, and Kodaly’s Peacock Variations, featuring assistant conductor Camden Archambeau ‘23. Kevin was the junior 2nd place winner of the...
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2021 Nov 07
Handel's Italy
4:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge
A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year. Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai.
Handel: Selections from Rodrigo
Handel: Selected arias
Porpora: Cello concerto
Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major
Porpora: Selected arias
Free and open to the public. All attendees must be masked and will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door, or to show proof of vaccination, or to show a proof of...
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2021 Oct 08
Bach Society Orchestra Presents: 2021-2022 Season Premiere
8:00pm to 9:30pm
Location: 
Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
The Bach Society Orchestra, Harvard's premiere undergraduate chamber orchestra, kicks off its 2021-2022 Season with our first concert of the fall on Friday, October 8th, 2021. Reserve your free tickets now for this wonderful musical celebration!
• Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major
• Manuel de Falla's El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite 1
• Gabriel Faure's Pélleas et Mélisande Suite.
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2020 Mar 07
Weekend Matinee: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
4:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge
 
Makoto Shinkai's remarkable feature film debut is set in a futuristic Japan on the verge of war. Takuya, a physicist, is drawn into a complex world of dreams, revolutionary fronts, government conspiracies and multiple realities. After many years, he reunites with his high school pal in their shared grief over their missing friend Sayuri, upon whose mysterious fate the whole world may depend.
Admission: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or Free with Cambridge Public Library Card or current Harvard Student ID
 
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2020 Mar 01
Concert: Parker Quartet
3:00pm
Location: 
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
As part of the Blodgett Chamber Music Series, the Parker Quartet will perform the following: Esa-Pekka Salonen Homunculus for String Quartet (2007); Szymanowski String Quartet #2, Opus 56; Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.
Please note: This event is free but tickets are required, available February 16 at Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center. Box Office is open Tuesday—Sunday, 12:00pm–6:00pm. Tickets are also available by phone 617-496-2222 or online. There is a small service charge for online and phone orders.
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2020 Mar 01
Concert: Pedro Memelsdorff
11:00am
Location: 
Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
Pedro Memelsdorff directs the University Choir in Messe en cantiques, a reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by freed and enslaved Africans in colonial Haiti.
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2020 Feb 28
Harvard Wind Ensemble Spring Concert
8:00pm
Location: 
Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Wind Ensemble for their spring concert on February 28.
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2020 Feb 27
Open Rehearsal of "Messe en cantiques"
5:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Memorial Church Sanctuary, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The Harvard University Choir presents an open rehearsal with Pedro Memelsdorff of "“Messe en cantiques," a reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by freed and enslaved Africans in colonial Haiti.
 
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2020 Feb 01
Film Screening: Blackmail
7:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge
Released to accommodate unconverted theaters, the silent Blackmail is leaner than the sound version and all the more disquieting for its subtle shifts in perspective. A documentary-style prologue establishes the rule of law in swift, precise strokes, but culpability ultimately proves elusive after a young woman grabs for a kitchen knife to defend herself from a darkly intimated rape. No sooner has the woman’s policeman boyfriend determined to cover up her crime than a supremely confident blackmailer materializes at the family shop. Hitchcock...
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2019 Dec 04
Lunchtime Organ Recital: Carson Cooman
12:15pm to 12:45pm
Location: 
The Memorial Church Sanctuary, Cambridge
Thirty minutes of organ music will be performed on the Fisk and Skinner organs of The Memorial Church of Harvard University. Free and open to the public.
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2019 Nov 17
Blodgett Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet
3:00pm
Location: 
John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join the Parker Quartet for an afternoon of music on Sunday, November 17. The program includes Mozart, String Quartet in D major, K499 "Hoffmeister"; Kirchner, String Quartet #1 (1949); Schubert, and Cello Quintet in C Major (with guest cellist Roman Borys).
Free tickets will be available through the Harvard Box Office beginning November 3.
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2019 Oct 27
2019 Bands of the Beanpot
3:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Join us for the 2019 Bands of the Beanpot Concert, featuring the bands of Harvard University, Northeastern University, Boston University, and Boston College.
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2019 Oct 11
2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary
8:00pm
Location: 
Sanders Theatre, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge
Harvard University Bands presents 2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary. This concert will feature Harvard Monday Jazz Band, Harvard Wind Ensemble, and the Harvard Band. Guest Soloist, Boston Symphony Tubist, Mike Roylance.
Cost: $10; free with Harvard ID
Purchase tickets through the Harvard Box Office.
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2019 Oct 09
Tunes at Noon: Club Passim Edition
Repeats every week every Wednesday until Wed Nov 20 2019 .
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Harvard Commons, Smith Campus Center, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Enjoy lunch or a study break in the Smith Campus Center! Stop by Harvard Commons every Wednesday to hear live music from Club Passim, a local folk music organization based in Harvard Square.
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2019 Sep 25
Sydney Conservatorium Composing Women
12:30pm to 2:15pm
Location: 
Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston
From an exploration of musical memories to a work that draws from the intricate patterns of stuttered speech, excerpts of four new works for solo flute will be presented in a lecture-performance format featuring four flute students of Professor Claire Chase: Jessica Shand, Mai Nguyen, Jennifer Wang and Taiga Ultan. Chase and guest composer Liza Lim will moderate a discussion with...
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2019 Sep 20
Blodgett Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet
8:00pm
Location: 
Paine Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge
Join the Harvard Music Department for an evening of music by the Parker Quartet.
The program includes Shostakovich String Quartet #11 in F minor, Opus 122; Dvorak, String Quartet in G major, Opus 106; Shostakovich, String Quartet #9 in E-flat Major, Opus 117.
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2019 Sep 20
Concert for One
Repeats every day until Sun Sep 29 2019 .
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
12:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: 
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Concert for One will pair individual listeners with solo musicians for 60 seconds of focused live performance and concentrated listening, fostering intimate connections between performers and audience members. Performances will take place inside a temporary art installation on the Science Center Plaza featuring an interactive lobby and performance space that will have just enough room for two chairs, two people and an instrument.
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2019 Jul 25
The Harvard Summer Pops Band: Musical Moments
4:00pm
Location: 
Tercentenary Theatre, Harvard Yard, Cambridge
The Harvard Summer Pops Band, now in its 47th year, is pleased to present the outdoor concert Musical Moments. The ensemble is conducted by the Director of the Harvard Band and Wind Ensemble, Mark Olson.
The Harvard Summer Pops Band is comprised of approximately 130 members including students attending Harvard Summer School, area college students and community members of various ages.
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2019 Jul 11
Summer Thursdays on the Plaza
Repeats every week every Thursday until Thu Aug 08 2019 .
5:00pm to 7:00pm
5:00pm to 7:00pm
5:00pm to 7:00pm
5:00pm to 7:00pm
5:00pm to 7:00pm
Location: 
Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge
Enjoy summer evenings with live music and fun for all ages at Summer Thursdays on the Plaza! 
Play on the lush green lawn beneath the shade structure, dance through bubbles, get creative with chalk drawings, and play a wide assortment of lawn games. Plus, enjoy live music from the community from 5:30pm–6:30pm.
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