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
Hey 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 keeping busy writing music and lyrics for musical theatre (at work on my sixth show now), and I've been lucky enough to have had some work published and performed across the country. I've also done plenty of music directing, including for the Hasty Pudding (stories abound), Camp Broadway's National Tour (stories abound), and the Boston Children's Theatre (stories, not so much). I lead a co-curricular seminar right here in Adams called "How Songs Work" which is open to everyone, even if you only want to drop by for a bit. So drop by - anytime. The door to C-16 is usually wide open, and 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, vespa scooters, and whatever's on your mind. I can also be a great resource for questions on working professionally in any aspect of the arts - if I haven't done it myself, I know someone well who has! So in the words of Three's Company, come and knock on my door. There will likely be Entenmann's.
Chip Lockwood
chip.lockwood@gmail.comFellowships and Music
C-33 | 3-2081
Hi Adams! I serve as a tutor in fellowships and music. Although I was
born and raised in Atlanta, I've spent most of the last nine years
here in frosty New England. In 2004 I graduated from Yale with a
degree in philosophy and spent past of the following year working in
the Netherlands at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former
Yugoslavia (try to say that five times fast!). Then, in 2005, I came
to Harvard to pursue a Ph.D. in the study of religion. I focus on the
relationship between religion, ethics, and politics in the modern
West, particularly in German thought. I've spent a good deal of
traveling in Germany and other parts of Europe, so I'm always happy to
chat about your past or upcoming travel adventures (and how to apply
for fellowships to fund study and travel!), as well as music, grad
school, religion, or anything else. Feel free to stop by C-33, where I
live with my girlfriend, Meghan.
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