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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
On Oct. 18, the Australian Chamber Orchestra performed “The Four Seasons and the Ottomans” at the New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall. The performance revived Vivaldi’s masterpiece alongside the original compositions created and performed by Joseph Tawadros, an Egyptian Australian composer, and his brother. As the title suggests, the performance was an encounter that transcended cultures and time.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
On Oct. 24, the Woodberry Poetry Room’s T.S. Eliot Memorial Reading was held in the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, spotlighting Cecilia Vicuña’s creative work. As a Chilean poet, artist, pacifism activist, and filmmaker, and the winner of Premio Nacional de Artes Plásticas 2023, Vicuña shared her poetry in an immersive way, dealing with topics such as war, destruction, and eroticism. Rosa Alcalá, a poet and translator, gave an introduction of Viscuña’s career and artistic work.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
“Flying Flowers and Scattered Snow” (飞花散雪), a title captured from an ancient seven-character Tang dynasty poem, was performed in the courtyard of the Harvard Art Museums by the Chinese calligraphy artist Wang Dongling on Sept. 27. The performance was sponsored by Shining (Christina) Sun, a Ph.D. student at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
The Harvard Art Museums welcomed back students for the 2024-2025 academic year with its fall exhibition “Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation,” which debuted on Sept. 13. The exhibition was curated by Busch-Reisinger Museum’s Curator Lynette Roth, Busch-Reisinger Museum’s Curatorial Fellow Peter Murphy, and Senior Curatorial Assistant for Special Exhibitions and Publications in the Harvard Art Museums’s Division of Modern and Contemporary Art Bridget Hinz.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
The Lowell House Opera premiered Benjamin T. Rossen ’23’s “The Unknowable, An Operatic Ballet in Two Acts” on Feb. 9 and 10 in Sanders Theatre. Founded in 1938, the Lowell House Opera casts emerging young professionals within Harvard and the Greater Boston Area in high-quality performances.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
The Handel and Haydn Society held its annual “Messiah” concert on the weekend of Thanksgiving at Symphony Hall as a Christmas oratorio for the holiday season. The concert was directed by Handel and Haydn Society’s new artistic director Jonathan Cohen, featuring soprano Joélie Harvey, countertenor John Holiday, tenor Stuart Jackson, and bass-baritone José Coca Loza, along with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra and Chorus.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
thecrimson.com | S. Mac Healey |Adelaide Parker |Dailan Xu
Twelve Harvard students and alumni were named as Schwarzman Scholars. Harvard produced the most Schwarzman Scholars of any other institution in this year's class of awardees. By Michael GritzbachBy S. Mac Healey, Adelaide E. Parker, and Dailan Xu, Crimson Staff WritersTwelve Harvard students and alumni were selected as Schwarzman Scholars on Wednesday, representing Harvard’s largest cohort since the scholarship’s founding in 2015.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
On the evening of Oct. 28, cultural historian and classical music critic Jeremy A. Eichler delivered a lecture on the life of Richard Strauss and his composition “Metamorphosen,” a piece written for 23 solo strings that was reduced to six people for this performance. The Borromeo String Quartet and friends at the Goethe Institute performed this piece.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
“La Cenerentola” is not a Cinderella story one would expect when walking into the Emerson Majestic Theatre, with its antique balcony boxes and domed ceiling. After a splendid overture conducted by David Angus, in which the strings build the show’s tension and the flute introduces its magical quality, the red curtain reveals two social media influencers with excessive makeup, dazzling ring lights, flip flops, and garish pajamas.
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Nov 6, 2023 | 
thecrimson.com | Dailan Xu
How should one reckon with America’s troubled history? In her newest memoir “To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul,” Tracy K. Smith ’94 delves into the past through the lens of her family history with lyrical and moving language. The scent of the red dirt and sunflowers of Alabama prevails throughout the memoir with a documentary-like quality. After graduating from Harvard College and completing an MFA at Columbia University, Smith pursued a career as a poet and essayist.
