Events

Weekend Matinee: The Place Promised in Our Early Days

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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Concert: Parker Quartet

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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Concert: Pedro Memelsdorff

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.

Learn more about Concert: Pedro Memelsdorff.

Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands

Location:

Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston

Join Scullers Jazz Club for the Third Annual "Battle of the Big Bands" with the Harvard and Yale Jazz Orchestras with Special Guests, Saxophonists Wayne Escoffery and Yosvani Terry!

Harvard's Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band...

Harvard Wind Ensemble Spring Concert

Location:

Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Cambridge

Join the Harvard Wind Ensemble for their spring concert on February 28.

Learn more about the Harvard Wind Ensemble.

Open Rehearsal of "Messe en cantiques"

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.

Learn more about Open Rehearsal of "Messe en...

Parker Quartet: Spectrum

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet returns to the Harvard Ed Portal February 26 as part of their 2019-2020 season. Join us for an evening of classical music that explores 300 years of the string quartet genre, and its history of inspiring great composers to create their most personal and dynamic works. Covering a wide spectrum of artistic thought and expression, from humor and mysticism to a holy song of thanksgiving, the program will highlight select works from this exciting and unique medium. All are welcome!

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Film Screening: Blackmail

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...

Lunchtime Organ Recital: Carson Cooman

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.

Learn more about Lunchtime Organ Recital: Carson Cooman.

Blodgett Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet

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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Faculty Recital: Claire Chase

Location:

ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston

The ArtLab presents Claire Chase's Density 2036, part vi. A recital of new music commissioned for flute featuring Constellation Chor, the New York City based vocal performance ensemble.

2019 marks the is sixth year of Claire Chase's Density 2036, a 23-year project to commission an entirely new body of repertory for solo flute each year until the 100th anniversary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5.

Claire Chase will perform new works by Olga Neuwirth, Phyllis Chen, Pamela Z, Nathan David, Marcos Balter and Sarah Hennies...

The Intersection of Music, Medicine, and Innovation with Longwood Symphony

Location:

Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Kresge Way, Boston

Enjoy a performance by the Longwood Symphony conducted by Ronald Feldman followed by a panel discussion by some of the Musical Medical Stars! The panel discussion will be around the intersection between Music and Medicine and Innovation.

Panelists:

Lisa Wong, MD (violin); Milton Pediatric Associates, HMS, CHB, MGH, BWH; Assistant Co-Director, Arts and Humanities Initiative at Harvard Medical School

Leonard Zon, MD (trumpet); Director, Stem Cell Program, Boston Children’s Hospital; Grousbeck...

A Far Cry Presents: The Golden Age of Film Noir

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Three-time Grammy nominated chamber orchestra A Far Cry returns to the Harvard Ed Portal for a cross-disciplinary exploration of Film Noir. Experience a whole evening of music written at the heydey of the Hollywood era: sumptuous, deeply felt, and acquainted with darkness, even psychosis.

Join A Far Cry for an open rehearsal and discussion that will preview the ensemble’s upcoming concert, American Noir, explore popular films of the era, and shed light on the composers behind the music: Jewish immigrants whose style set the tone for a generation of film music that...

2019 Bands of the Beanpot

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.

Learn more about 2019 Bands of the Beanpot.

2019 Montage Concert: Celebrating the Harvard Band’s 100th Anniversary

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.

Tunes at Noon: Club Passim Edition

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.

Learn more about Tunes at Noon: Club Passim Edition.

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Sydney Conservatorium Composing Women

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...

Kick-Off the ArtLab: Opening Celebration

Location:

Harvard ArtLab, 140 N. Harvard St., Allston

Join the Harvard ArtLab, Harvard’s new laboratory for art and research, for an opening celebration on September 21! Allston-based tap dance company Subject: Matter will kick off the celebration with a performance beginning promptly at 10:00am accompanied by a live jazz band. Visitors can have their portrait taken by Boston-based photographer OJ Slaughter and experience the ArtLab’s sound studio and A*, the multi-channel art installation by Harvard Film Study Center Fellow Andy Graydon.

This event is free and open to the public!

If you have any questions, please...

Blodgett Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet

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.

Learn more about and register for Blodgett Chamber Music Series: Parker Quartet.

Concert for One

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.

Concert for One is free and open to the public, no reservations or tickets required.The performer’s name, instrument, and what...

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