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  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

  • Berklee’s “Music of Women Composers” Course: 8 Essays

Words

FUSION Presents a Raucous Night of Performed Poetry: Berklee’s Spoken Word & Slam Poetry classes and The Garden

The Slam poets represent a cross-section of the Spoken Word & Slam Poetry class, taught by Michael Heyman. This is brave, bold, head-on, powerpuffed, chuffed, exposed, raw, beautiful, hilarious, heartbreaking, and phantasmagoric poetry for the people that should hit you upside your noggin, downside your bean, and straight into your soulbone. Trigger warnings are assumed. The last six readers of the evening are all members of the Berklee/Boston Conservatory Poetry Club, The Garden (Judson Evans, faculty advisor), which has been a fixture on campus for over twenty years. Dylan Evers, Marc Monroe, and Abel Puerta are the three current leaders of the club, which gathers student writers weekly for evenings of readings, writing prompts, guest poets, and other events, including the recent “Poetry on the Spot” events where student poets produce improvised poems on a typewriter on request.

Camelot Vampires Unleashed: 12 Poems in Traditional Forms from Pat Pattison’s Poetry Workshop

Using Galaxy Clusters to Search for the Most Distant Objects in the Observable Universe

Dr. Felipe Andrade-Santos

Sharing the Darkness

Carolyn Forché

Well, What Would Lincoln Do?

John Burt

Caramel and Chocolate Can Both Have Sea Salt

Gabrielle Honore

Vajra (Water song)

Kevin O’Keefe

Music

Tuning in to Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony

Katherine Dacey

“Not since the first Manhattan performance of Parsifal [in 1903],” Time magazine declared, “had there been such a buzz of American anticipation over a piece of music.”[1] That piece was Dmitri Shostakovich’s Seventh Symphony, also known as the Leningrad, which American audiences first heard on July 19, 1942 over the NBC radio network. Premieres of earlier works such as George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and Porgy and Bess (1935) had enjoyed considerable newspaper coverage, but a symphony by the young composer laureate of the Soviet Union, written during the siege of Leningrad and introduced to millions of Americans by radio, merited even more extensive media attention. In the days leading up the premiere, newspapers and magazines published articles that followed a certain formula: they introduced Shostakovich to readers unfamiliar with his music; documented his struggle to complete the Seventh …

Two Essays on the Body—Love, Broken, Beauty.

by Brian Turner

Kinds of Blues: 3 Songs & 3 Poems

Cornelius Eady

The Superpower of Conducting: Women Rise to the Podium

Anna Rakitina, Assistant Conductor, Boston Symphony Orchestra

Ghost Session

Pete Mullineaux

Art

At Play: New Photographs

by David Hollender

 

Pastoral Mosaics: Journeys Through Landscapes Rural

Brian Michael Barbeito

ALLAMERICAN

Margo Davis

Bathtub Series

Eva Redamonti

The Art of Mali Olatunji: Painterly Photography from Antigua and Barbuda

by Mali Olatunji and Paget Henry

The Garden@FUSION

Visual Art

Poetry from The Garden

Film

Vinyasa for Two & The Waiting Room: 2 Plays by Naomi Leites

Black Lives Matter: What Would It Cost Us to Weep with Those Who Weep?

Ricky Staub & Aaron St. Jean

The First Assistant Director: Communicator-in-Chief on a Movie Set

Hristo Dimitrov

A New Lens on Old Film: A Twenty-Something’s Angle on Art House Cinema

Isabella Komodromos

GUADAGNINO – CINÉASTE DE AUTRE TEMPS, or the death of the auteur and rebirth of the artisan

Sean Brennan

Contemporary Television Series and Literature: An Intense, Transformative Embrace

Anna De Biasio

Features

Landscapes in the Time of Covid

Students of Professor Wayne Wild

Against The Odds: an Exploration of Bulgarian Rhythms

Vessela Stoyanova

New Faculty Fiction

Contests

Student Short Story Contest Winners

Student Creative Nonfiction Contest Winners

How the West Was Won: Berklee Alumni Careers Transformed in L.A. and Beyond

Archives

In memoriam, Henry Augustine Tate

Volume 3

Foggy Morning, Strathlachlan, Michael Russell

Volume 4

Interviews

FUSION Meets the Fuze

An Interview with David Fiuczynski

Interview with Silvina Moreno

Meaning Through Music: An Interview With William Ross

Michael Hazani

Events

An Evening of Poetry & Music

with Sara Pirkle Hughes, Neil Olmstead, and Ana Guigui

Indian FUSION Event: The Rasas of Incredible India

Photos from Celtic FUSION – Am Fuaran

A Celebration of the Music of Scotland

FUSION, Berklee’s global arts magazine, publishes writing in all genres, photography, video, and music by students, faculty, staff, and alumni from across the U.S. and our international communities. We feature distinguished guest artists, including three U.S. Poet Laureates, a U.K. Poet Laureate, National Book Award finalists, and writers whose awards include NEA, NEH, Guggenheim, and MacArthur fellowships, a PEN Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.