[POSTPONED] Harvardwood Salon with TV Lit Manager Zadoc Angell AB '03 (Echo Lake Entertainment)
On the evening of April 30th, attend an intimate event with Zadoc Angell AB '03, TV Literary Manager and Partner at Echo Lake Entertainment. Ask questions about his past and present as an agent, manager, and pilot-writing teacher at UCLA. Limited to 12 attendees, this event is not to be missed!
$15/attendee
Attendees will cover their own food & drink at dinner
The Harvardwood Salon Series gives attendees the unique opportunity to engage in in-depth discussion with the featured guest in an intimate setting. Salons are only open to Harvardwood Members & Friends. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to find out how you may attend.
Zadoc Angell AB '03
(TV Lit Manager & Partner, Echo Lake Entertainment)
Zadoc Angell began his career as a TV Literary Agent at Paradigm, where he worked for seven years. Transitioning to TV Literary Management five years ago, Zadoc joined forces with manager Dave Brown and grew a team of literary managers which they brought with them to Echo Lake in 2013.
Angell's journey to Hollywood is not a conventional one. Growing up on a 400-acre dairy farm in rural upstate New York, Zadoc and his sister Amy were integral to his parents' family-run business. The son of a minister and a local politician, Angell pursued his academic and creative endeavors to Harvard University, where he graduated in 2003 with a Bachelor's Degree in Visual & Environmental Studies: Film.
In addition to being a full-time manager, Angell teaches classes in pilot writing at UCLA. Check out Angell's recent Final Draft interview here. In 2019, Zadoc was honored as one of Variety's New Leaders—and the only literary manager—in the Agents, Managers & Lawyers category.
If you're interested in attending this Harvardwood Salon, please read the information below carefully and follow the steps.
1) You must be a dues-current Harvardwood Member or Friend. Not a member?
2) Complete this brief interest form so we can learn more about you and your interest in attending this event. Please log in to access the form. The deadline for the interest form is April 23, 2020.
3) You will be contacted by the Directors of Harvardwood Salons. If it is possible for you to attend, the Directors will send you the link to RSVP. If not, you will be placed on a waitlist. Capacity is extremely limited, and priority for future Salon registrations will be given to people who have previously been waitlisted in order to ensure equitable distribution among the membership.
This is a restricted event, and advance and approved registration completed per the steps above is required. Due to extremely limited capacity, no walk-ins will be admitted; anyone who is not registered will be turned away at the door.
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Harvardwood & the HCSC Attend The Planets by the LA Philharmonic [CANCELLED]
Join Harvardwood members and the Harvard Club of Southern California at LA's iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall for a concert featuring Harvard faculty members Claire Chase and Esperanza Spalding. Only 16 tickets are available (Harvardwood members & HCSC members receive discounted pricing), so RSVP at the bottom of this page soon. Tickets are located consecutively in Rows N and P of the terrace.
Tickets are $88/person for members and $110/person for non-members.
Each planet in Holst’s stirring suite of orchestral portraits takes its character from astrological descriptions, giving it a distinct, highly colorful profile, from the frighteningly war-bent Mars to the mysterious, ethereal Neptune. Our Principal Guest Conductor also shares a new concerto for flute and bass by Felipe Lara, a Brazilian-born composer based in Jersey City.
Program
- Felipe LARA Double Concerto (U.S. premiere, LA Phil commission)
- Intermission
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HOLST The Planets
Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Susanna Mälkki, conductor
- Claire Chase, flute (Harvard Faculty Member)
- Esperanza Spalding, bass (Harvard Faculty Member)
- Los Angeles Master Chorale
- Grant Gershon, Artistic Director
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Claire Chase is a soloist, collaborative artist, curator, and advocate for new and experimental music. Over the past decade, she has given the world premiere of hundreds of new works for the flute in performances throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and she has championed new music throughout the world by building organizations, forming alliances, pioneering commissioning initiatives, and supporting educational programs that reach new audiences. She was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2012, and in 2017 was awarded the Avery Fisher Prize.
In 2013, Chase launched Density 2036, a 23-year commissioning project to create an entirely new body of repertory for flute between 2014 and 2036, the centenary of Edgard Varèse’s groundbreaking 1936 flute solo, Density 21.5. Each season as part of the project, Chase premieres a new program of commissioned music, with six hours of new repertory created to date. In 2036, she will play a 24-hour marathon of all of the repertory created in the project. Chase will release world premiere recordings of the first four years of the Density cycle in collaboration with the producer Matias Tarnopolsky at Meyer Sound Laboratories in Berkeley, California.
A deeply committed educator, Chase was named Professor of the Practice in the Department of Music at Harvard University starting in 2017. She is also the co-artistic director, with her longtime collaborator Steven Schick, of Ensemble Evolution, a three-week intensive workshop for emerging musicians at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity in Canada. In 2014, Chase was named an inaugural Fellow at Project&, a Chicago-based organization founded by Jane M. Saks that addresses cultural production with social impact. Chase collaborated with Project&, the composer Marcos Balter, and the director Douglas Fitch on the creation of Pan, an opera for solo flute and an all-ages ensemble of community members, which Alex Ross of The New Yorker called “art as grassroots action.”
Chase co-founded the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2001, described as the United States’ “foremost new-music ensemble” (The New Yorker), and she served as its artistic director until 2017 and as an ensemble member on performance and education projects on five continents. ICE has premiered more than 800 works since its inception and has spearheaded an artist-driven organizational model that earned the Ensemble the Trailblazer Award from the American Music Center in 2010 and the Ensemble of the Year Award in 2014 from Musical America Worldwide. The ensemble can be heard in dozens of recordings on the Tzadik, Mode, Naxos, Bridge, New Amsterdam, New Focus, Samadhi Sound, and Nonesuch labels, as well as via its own online, streaming video library of live performances, DigitICE. Chase currently serves on the Ensemble’s board of directors.
Chase grew up in Leucadia, California, with the childhood dream of becoming a professional baseball player before she discovered the flute. She received her B.M. from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music in the studio of Michel Debost. She lives in Brooklyn.
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From the beginning of her life to her current success as a creative musician, ESPERANZA SPALDING has charted her own course. The young bassist/vocalist/composer was one of the biggest breakout stars of 2011 – not just in jazz, but in all genres of music. Her 2011 Grammy for Best New Artist was unprecedented – the first time a jazz musician had won the award – but Spalding continues to make the unprecedented the norm.
Born in Portland, Oregon, Spalding grew up in a single-parent home and learned early lessons in the meaning of perseverance and moral character from the role model whom she holds in the highest regard to this day – her mother.
But even with a rock-solid role model, school did not come easy to Spalding, although not for any lack of intellectual acumen. She was both blessed and cursed with a highly intuitive learning style that often put her at odds with the traditional education system. On top of that, she was shut in by a lengthy illness as a child, and as a result, was home-schooled for a significant portion of her elementary school years.
However, the one pursuit that made sense to Spalding from a very early age was music. At age four, after watching classical cellist Yo-Yo Ma perform on an episode of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the roadmap was suddenly very clear. “That was when I realized that I wanted to do something musical,” she says. “It was definitely the thing that hipped me to the whole idea of music as a creative pursuit.”
Within a year, she had essentially taught herself to play the violin well enough to land a spot in the Chamber Music Society of Oregon, a community orchestra that was open to both children and adult musicians. She stayed with the group for ten years, and by age 15 she had been elevated to a concertmaster position.
But by then, she had also discovered the bass, and all of the non-classical avenues that the instrument could open for her. Suddenly, playing classical music in a community orchestra wasn’t enough for this young teenager anymore. Before long she was playing blues, funk, hip-hop, and a variety of other styles on the local club circuit.
Berklee College of Music was the place where the pieces all came together and doors started opening. After a move to the opposite coast and three years of accelerated study, she not only earned a B.M., but also signed on as an instructor in 2005 at the age of 20 – an appointment that has made her one of the youngest faculty members in the history of the college. She was the 2005 recipient of the prestigious Boston Jazz Society scholarship for outstanding musicianship.
Spalding has gone through several phases, which have been well documented during her brief recording career. Her journey as a solo artist began with the 2006 release of Junjo, on the Spanish label Ayva Music, which featured pianist Aruán Ortiz and drummer Francisco Mela. She presented the many different sides of her writing on Esperanza, her 2008 international debut recording for Heads Up, which quickly topped Billboard’s Contemporary Jazz Chart and became the year’s best selling album worldwide by a new jazz artist. Numerous awards and appearances followed, including an invitation by President Barack Obama to appear at both the White House and the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, and an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman that found Letterman and bandleader Paul Shaffer proclaiming the young musician the “coolest” guest in the three-decade history of the program.
“The objective of Esperanza was to show many sides of my musical personality,” Spalding explains; “but I also imagined that my next records would be built around a more concrete project-concept.” What followed, Chamber Music Society from 2010 and her newly released Radio Music Society, made it clear that her initial triumphs were just the beginning.
Returning to her ever-expanding book of musical sketches, “taking my notes and organizing them into something coherent,” Spalding began with Chamber Music Society, the 2010 release on which the bassist was joined by longtime colleagues Leo Genovese (keyboards) and Terri Lyne Carrington (drums), plus percussionist Quintino Cinalli, vocalists (including the legendary Milton Nascimento) and a string trio (arranged by Gil Goldstein and Spalding). The disc was another instant chart topper and gained multiple awards, none more imposing than the Best New Artist Grammy.
Spalding’s latest release, Radio Music Society, expands the cast to include, among many others, jazz legends Joe Lovano, Jack DeJohnette, and Billy Hart; hip-hop giant Q-Tip, Algebra Blessett, Lalah Hathaway, Gretchen Parlato, and Lionel Loueke, among an array of notable vocalists; and Portland mentors Janice Scroggins and Dr. Thara Memory, as well as the horn section of Memory’s American Music Program ensemble.
Spalding continues to spread her message around the globe. In addition to over 110 Chamber Music Society concerts, she still found time to tour with Joe Lovano’s US 5, perform at Rock In Rio with Milton Nascimento, play at Prince’s “Welcome 2 America” tour, and join Wayne Shorter in celebrating Herbie Hancock’s 70th birthday at the Hollywood Bowl. As Jeff Baker of The Oregonian once raved of her electrifying talent, “This was about art, performed at the highest level by someone with the vision, talent, and determination to make it happen”.
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[POSTPONED] Harvardwood Presents KENT GARRETT: "The Last Negroes at Harvard"
It was the Fall of 1959. Eisenhower was President. And 18 "Negro boys" arrived at Harvard for their freshman year, the first to be admitted under what was later to be called Affirmative Action. By the time they graduated in 1963, they were "African Americans". And they had changed Harvard and Harvard had changed them. Kent Garrett was one of those 18. In his 
new book, THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever, written with his partner Jeanne Ellsworth, Garrett talks about his own experiences and those of the other 17, and follows all 18 through their time at and after Harvard.
Documentary filmmaker Kent Garrett worked for three decades in network news. He was a Producer with The CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, and then, for ten years, was a Senior Producer with NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. He was a Producer for PBS's Black Journal. He has also been News Director for a Fox Affiliate station in Binghamton, and today does a daily news show on WIOX radio in Roxbury, NY. For ten years he ran an organic dairy farm in upstate Duchess County. Garrett has won two Emmy awards and a Peabody award.
Garrett will be in conversation with his partner and co-author Jeanne Ellsworth. Ellsworth has a PhD in History of Education, and has devoted her life to teaching, everywhere from elementary schools and colleges to prisons.
The doors will open at 6:30 pm and the evening will begin with a wine and cheese reception. The talk will begin promptly at 7:00 pm. THE LAST NEGROES AT HARVARD: The Class of 1963 and the 18 Young Men Who Changed Harvard Forever will be available for purchase, and a booksigning will follow the talk.
Advance registration is REQUIRED. No tickets will be sold at the door. If you're bringing guests, please email us the names of your guests (for Building Security) at nyc@harvardwood.org
The Coronavirus situation has forced us to postpone this event. We look forward to rescheduling it as soon as it makes sense to do so.
Special thanks to Haynes and Boone, LLP
and to Andy Goodwin and the Plymouth Hill Foundation
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[POSTPONED] Harvardwood Salon: How to Impress—or Be—a Network Exec - with Adam Wolman AB '88
On the evening of May 13th, attend an intimate dinner with Adam Wolman, AB '88, a former current & development executive at ABC and MTV who co-ran the Disney-ABC Writing and Directing Programs. These days Adam is a documentary producer, creative consultant, and Harvardwood board member to boot!
Interested in learning what network execs are really thinking about when you're pitching, about his time at HBO Digital, or any insights he may have from being married to a showrunner? Sign up now!
$15/attendee
Attendees will cover their own food & drink at dinner
The Harvardwood Salon Series gives attendees the unique opportunity to engage in in-depth discussion with the featured guest in an intimate setting. Salons are only open to Harvardwood Members & Friends. Please scroll to the bottom of this page to find out how you may attend.
Adam Wolman AB '88
Adam consults for companies and individuals creating content for all media. Comedy, drama, reality, documentary — name the format and Adam's tried to be of service in helping tell a compelling story. Sometimes this turns out great and other times meh, but so far, happily, nothing he's worked on has been a total disaster.
In his first outing as a documentarian, Adam recently produced and co-wrote Tested, a film about the controversy over diversity at NYC's specialized high schools (Stuyvesant, Bronx Science, Brooklyn Tech). The film premiered at DOC NYC and was named one of the best of the fest by the Village Voice, then screened at the White House. Unfortunately the screening did not convince our then-president to ignore the 22nd Amendment and run for a third term, so here we are.
As the #2 exec at HBO Digital, Adam developed short-form series for HBO’s digital platforms. As Executive Consultant, Disney/ABC Television Group, he was brought on to help launch ABC’s award-winning Micro-Mini Series; the position was expanded to include sharing oversight of the Disney/ABC Writing and Directing Fellowships and other programs designed to find and mentor diverse talent. Previously, Adam was VP, Original Series, Current and Development for MTV, where he was exec in charge of production on several series. He also served at ABC Entertainment as Director, Comedy Series Programming, and as Program Analyst at CBS Productions despite his childhood fear, still simmering today, of the CBS eye logo.
Before moving to L.A., Adam worked as an independent producer in Boston and in Massachusetts politics as a lobbyist and speechwriter for Mass Citizen Action. At Harvard he was a WHRB radio news editor/anchor who sometimes got to partner with the far-more-talented Scott Horsley, now NPR's White House correspondent. Adam sang in the Glee Club and with the Din & Tonics. He also acted in a couple of shows, including that Hasty Pudding thing, before exiting stage left with a degree in Linguistics and Psychology.
Back to the future: These days Adam still sings, tries to fight the power as VP Communications for the Pali Dem Club, co-chairs Human Rights Watch L.A.'s film club committee, and lives more or less harmoniously with his TV writer/producer wife Eileen Heisler and their twin boys and their two cats.
If you're interested in attending this Harvardwood Salon, please read the information below carefully and follow the steps.
1) You must be a dues-current Harvardwood Member or Friend. Not a member?
2) Complete this brief interest form so we can learn more about you and your interest in attending this event. Please log in to access the form. The deadline for the interest form is May 5, 2020.
3) You will be contacted by the Directors of Harvardwood Salons. If it is possible for you to attend, the Directors will send you the link to RSVP. If not, you will be placed on a waitlist. Capacity is extremely limited, and priority for future Salon registrations will be given to people who have previously been waitlisted in order to ensure equitable distribution among the membership.
This is a restricted event, and advance and approved registration completed per the steps above is required. Due to extremely limited capacity, no walk-ins will be admitted; anyone who is not registered will be turned away at the door.
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[POSTPONED] Harvardwood Presents "FATTY" ARBUCKLE: Scandal and Achievement
In 1921, at the age of 34, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle was one of Hollywood's greatest stars. A mentor to Buster Keaton and a collaborator of Charlie Chaplin, Arbuckle made some of the most wildly popular film comedies of the day. In 1918, Paramount gave him a contract for what at the time was an amazing $3 million to make 18 short films over 3 years. And then scandal 
struck. All at once, his acting career was over. His films were banned from the theaters, and to this day are known only to the relatively small coterie of silent film buffs. But now, finally, interest is reviving in Arbuckle's work. And a notable step in this revival is the appearance of Steve Massa's new book, REDISCOVERING ROSCOE: The Films of "Fatty" Arbuckle. In this talk, Massa will discuss the scandal and its aftermath as well as Arbuckle's artistic achievement. And, to make that achievement unmistakable, we will screen several of Arbuckle's finest short comedies.
Steve Massa is a major authority on Arbuckle's work and on silent film comedy in general. His previous books include SLAPSTICK DIVAS: The Women of Silent Comedy; LAME BRAINS AND LUNATICS: The Good, the Bad, and the Forgotten of Silent Film Comedy; and MARCEL PEREZ: The International Mirth-Maker.
Massa will be interviewed by Robert Tevis. Tevis writes a monthly column for Classic Images on film and film history. His articles and reviews have appeared in Films of the Golden Age, Screentalk, and Written By.
REDISCOVERING ROSCOE: The Films of "Fatty" Arbuckle will be available for purchase, and a booksigning will follow the event.
Advance registration is REQUIRED—no tickets will be sold at the door.
DRESS CODE: Business Casual is fine for the event itself, but if you are thinking of staying for dinner (the Pub at The Lambs will accept credit cards), JACKETS & TIES will be required for men. No denim, sneakers, or such.
This is a joint event with THE LAMBS.
Due to the Coronavirus situation, this event is now POSTPONED. It will be rescheduled as soon as it is realistic to make plans.
Special thanks to Andy Goodwin and the Plymouth Hill Foundation
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[POSTPONED] Harvardwood Presents Pianist ROSA ANTONELLI: "Bridges"
Rosa Antonelli, one of Argentina's leading pianists, is especially celebrated for her performances of the classical piano music of Latin America. Antonelli knew Piazzolla and others of these composers personally, and she plays this repertory with deep love and a very special warmth and understanding.
When she gave the first of her two solo recitals in Carnegie Hall's main Stern Auditorium, Joe Franklin wrote, "On October 15 in Carnegie Hall, a star was born. Her name is Rosa Antonelli." And the legendary critic Harris Goldsmith wrote of her playing, "She is a dyed-in-the-wool Romantic Lyricist. Her always aurally beautiful and caressing pianism uses a lot of color via the sustaining pedal; she molds phrases with enormous flexibility, and there was never a hint of harsh, ugly or astringent glint to her lush singing tone . . . Antonelli's inward poetry forced me to rehear, and revalue, Piazzolla's Tangos, which she infused with an eloquence and inner communication." Donald Vroon of American Record Guide has called Antonelli's Chopin playing "Utterly perfect—playing, pacing, sounds."
This special private invitation-only concert for Harvardwood members and friends celebrates the release of Antonelli's new CD, BRIDGES. Chopin was the teacher of Georges Mathias, who was the teacher of Alberto Williams, who taught the great Argentine composer Alberto Ginastera, who in turn was the teacher of Astor Piazzolla, and in BRIDGES Antonelli plays the music of each of these, making the chain of connection one that can be experienced through the music itself. Jacqueline Kharouf wrote in her review in Fanfare, "I will listen to this album for many years, and always with a sense of deep gratitude and admiration." BRIDGES has been nominated for the SoloPiano Album of the Year Award.
For this concert, Rosa Antonelli's program will include music by Chopin and Piazzolla and others.
A reception with wine cheese will follow the performance.
Advance registration is REQUIRED. No tickets will be sold at the door.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: We urgently need three volunteers to arrive at 6:15 to carefully roll the piano (it's on wheels--no lifting involved) from the room where it normally lives to the nearby room where the performance will happen, and then, after the performance, to carefully roll it back to it's original location. These volunteers will get into the concert for free, of course! If you'd like to volunteer, email Spence Porter at nyc@harvardwood.org . Thanks!
Due to the Coronavirus situation, this concert has been postponed. We will reschedule it as soon as rescheduling makes sense.
The exact address of the concert will be listed in the confirmation email that you receive soon after you register.
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Harvardwood, HAE, & First-Gen Harvard Alumni Present: Storytelling by Harvard Alumni
True stories told live on stage without notes (à la The Moth) by Harvard alumni!
Interested in participating as a performer? Please learn more here.
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