Upcoming events 2008-9
COMING SOON:
Sophomore Welcome Concert given by new members of Adams House, as well as musicians from Junior & Senior years - Wednesday, OCTOBER 29th @ 8pm in the LCR
Adams Talent Show April 28 in the LCR @ 8pm. Featuring lots of acts and music from within Adams!
The Adams Library Recital Series continues in the Spring Semester, and will take place at 8pm on Friday nights in the library.
(i) April 3
Beethoven "Rasomovsky" quartet Op. 49 No. 1
(ii) April 10
Quintette pour instruments a vent
(iii) April 24
J .S. Bach solo violin sonata No. 3
(iv) May 1
Shostakovitch string quartet No. 3 in F
Please contact David Trippett if you are interested in performing at any of these events
Want to be involved? Want to have your music performed? Want to perform? Anyone can do these things by emailing David and Paula and joining the committee!
Adams Music Society
Adams Music is Your Music!
We are a vibrant student-run society and offer performance spaces for all kinds of musical groups and performers. Using three central venues: the Lower Common Room, the Upper Common Room, and the Pool Theater we aim to present a varied and exciting program of events each semester. For details of what we have in store see the upcoming events over to the right.
We are glad to offer opportunities to anyone wishing to stage a concert, organize jam sessions, showcase their talent and, of course, to those wishing to join the committee!. If you love music, of whatever kind, and are interested in running your own event(s) and see your ideas come to fruition then join the Adams music society! For information on how to get involved go here
All room booking go through our wonderful House Administrator Sophia Chaknis
Practice rooms
We have two designated music rooms with pianos, a newly-renovated Steinway grand in the LCR and a chamber organ. For information about practice facilities at Adams and how to book them go here.
Adams Organ
The Andover pipe organ located in the LCR is a fantastic, fun and enjoyable instrument. Please bring it to life with silent films, with Bach ("switched-on" Bach too), with songs, with whatever you like. It's here for your use, and we are the only Harvard house with an organ. If you know how to use the stops, bellows and keyboard, just ask the superintendent for the keys. If you would like a tutorial, send me an email, call me on 3-3430 or drop by Clav-32.
Links
Visit the music department homepage
Are you interested the Alexander Technique for musicians? Here is a local teacher ... and here is a page specifically for musicians
For more information on music within the Harvard community, for grant applications, and for lists of teachers in the Cambridge / Boston area please visit the Office for the arts.
Need to find a teacher near Harvard? Browse the OFA lists
Would you like Harvard to subsidise your music lessons? If so, then check out the subsidy program here
Fancy a trip to the Boston Symphony Orchestra? Browse their 2008-2009 schedules at BSO.
Want free tickets to BSO? Then take advantage of the BSO ticket subsidy for undergrads by sending an email to ofa@fas.harvard.edu stating your full name, class year, and email address so that you can be added to the notification email list. You will then receive emails a week before a subsidised concert.
Resident Tutors
Matthew Corriel
corriel@fas.harvard.eduMusic and Drama
C-16 | 3-7423
Hi Adams! I grew up in Nanuet NY, a small town 19 miles northwest of New York City. I was Adams '05 - living in C44, B32 and B12 – and graduated from the Literature Department with a focus on French-speaking literatures, notoriously writing my thesis on Jackson Browne and T.S. Eliot. Since graduation, I've been living in Boston and working as a musical theatre songwriter and music director. Three of my musicals were written and produced (in MA, CT, and NY) in the two years since graduation, and I've music directed with Camp Broadway, Boston Children's Theatre, and the Hasty Pudding. I'm thrilled to be drama and BGLT tutor in Adams this year, so come talk to me about any and all things drama, be they the joys and dramas of the theatre or the joys and dramas of gay and lesbian life. Other favorite topics of discussion include Moliere, the worthiness of bringing non-traditional figures into the academic spotlight, putting the B in BGLT, chocolates, living your dream, and vespa scooters. I write from home, so in the words of Three's Company, come and knock on my door. There will likely be Entenmann's.
David Trippett
trippett@fas.harvard.eduMusic
Clav 32 | 3-3430
Hi there! I'm a pianist, a fifth year doctoral student in Music History, and love listening to, and working with music of all kinds. I studied in England (the "other" Cambridge...) and Germany, and enjoyed traveling all around Europe when I was an undergrad (e.g. all the way to Helsinki to see Wagner's Ring cycle under Leif Segerstam!), so do come and exchange travel stories with me. Aside from academia and piano practice, I love movies, Kandinsky & Klee, ballet and 19thC German literature. My research is on German Romantic opera and political history, so I'm always happy to chat about Wagner or have a Vormaerz / Nachmaerz debate with you. My wife, Paula, is a singer, and together we'll be offering various musical events through the year in Adams (check the Adams website for more details). Musical or not, we'd love to meet you, so come by Clav-32 anytime, have some tea, and say hello!
Paula Trippett
pauladownes@yahoo.co.ukMusic, House Librarian
Clav 32 | 3-3430
Originally from the UK, my husband and I met at Cambridge University, UK, where I gained a Masters degree in Music, and a Post Graduate Certificate in Music Education. I then lived in London for three years, where I taught music at a girls high school in London and sang professionally both as a soloist and in groups such as the 'Sixteen'. I also studied for a Diploma in Opera at London University, and I am now working as a professional singer in the Boston area, singing as a soloist with the Materworks Chorale, Chorus Pro Musica, with opera companies, and in groups such as the Handel and Haydn Society and Emmanuel Music. I also teach music, singing, violin and piano to young children for the New School of Music in Cambridge. My other hobbies include playing the violin, viola, and piano, reading, chatting, and drinking coffee and tea. Stop by and experience English accents, classical music, and fresh coffee!
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