Arts Spectrum 2002/03

Fall 2003
Focus on: Music at Harvard

Views from the Podium: "Students here approach their extracurriculars with a drive and a standard that makes it easy to forget they're not professionals..." (Read More...)

How Music Matters: "What Harvard doesn't have is a regular system of granting academic degree credit for music lessons and for participation in ensembles..." (Read More...)

Taking Note: "The study of music is also the study of history, language, science, and a whole host of other disciplines. It's exciting to see and learn what Harvard students bring to music-making from their outside studies and interests..." (Read More...)

Year in Review 2002/03

Council on the Arts Awards Student Art Prizes: Each year the Council on the Arts, a standing committee of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, recognizes undergraduate excellence in the arts with four arts prizes... (Read More...)

The Year in Dance: The Dance Program has continued to expand its pedagogical offerings and raise the bar for dance production values... (Read More...)

The Year in Ceramics: Handbuilding, wheel-throwing, figurative sculpture, and mosaic murals... (Read More...)

Spring 2003
Focus on: Visual Arts at Harvard

Rhythm, Tension, Energy, and Beauty: "I think a lot of students come to my class at first to have fun. They think it’s going to be a release from term papers and lab projects. But then they see that learning how to draw is a real challenge." (Read More...)

Student Voices: 'Thinking creatively in the artistic sense teaches a general way of synthesizing different ideas that translates well into othere fields. An understanding of space, which we deal with constantly, is as important as the scientific... (Read More...)

Winter 2002/03
Focus on: Dance at Harvard

'Without Dance in my life, I would be lost': Students' skills, academics, and life itself enhanced by dance. 'As far as shaping my academic experience I can say that when one feels good, one is able to think, be creative in solving problems, be open to new perspectives...(Read More...)

Body to Brain: Connecting Dance and the Curriculum "There is no question that my Dramatic Arts course is reaching an entirely different population than our non-credit program...The credit classes give us the time to cover theoretical aspects of teh field of dance. (Read More...)

Fall 2002
Focus on: Drama at Harvard

Taking Stock with John Rockwell: I live in New York; first hand, except for a few American Repertory Theatre (ART) performances over the years and Sweeney Todd and Macbeth at this year's ARTS FIRST festival (Read More...)

A Conversation with Robert Woodruff: As someone who creates things in an institutional context, my role is to push the institution until it almost breaks in order to achieve what it needs to achieve. (Read More...)

No one can predict the future, but Lee Mingwei’s new work will encourage viewers to try. (Read More...)

The Arts Spectrum focuses on a wide range of issues and events in the arts, educational policies of the University, and significant people in the Harvard arts community.

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