Morris Gray Reading (1947)

Introduction (T.S. Eliot)

We Are Harvard

Composer: Basque Melody, arr. Edgar Pettman
Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director


The Angel Gabriel From Heaven Came

Composer: Cornish Carol, arr. John Rutter
Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director


Sans Day Carol

Composer: French Carol, arr. Mack Wilberg
Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director


Ding Dong! Merrily On High

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, March 7, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — Dare We Speak of Joy | Memorial Church

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, November 21, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — Living Thankfully in the Reign of Christ | Memorial Church

The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes's sermon on Sunday, November 14, 2010 in the Memorial Church.

Peter J. Gomes — When We Remember | Memorial Church

The Listening Booth is a digital audio archive featuring highlights from the Woodberry Poetry Room, one of the largest repositories for literary recordings in the country. We welcome you to sample this selection or explore the Listening Booth itself, with readings by W. H. Auden, Amiri Baraka, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, E. E. Cummings, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Claudia Rankine, Adrienne Rich, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, and more.

“American Arithmetic” Natalie Diaz

1976 Modern Language Convention: Special Session on Elizabeth Bishop (December 28, 1976)

"In the Waiting Room" Elizabeth Bishop

“Why’s/Wise 1” Amiri Baraka

As the country’s first library of voices, the Woodberry Poetry Room helped create some of the earliest recordings of such writers as Ralph Ellison, Robert Frost, Audre Lorde, Vladimir Nabokov, Sylvia Plath, and T. S. Eliot. We invite you to listen to one of the most rare recordings in the archive: T. S. Eliot’s first known poetry recording—produced at Harvard in 1933 and re-released as a Harvard Vocarium LP in 1951. With thanks to the Eliot Foundation for their generous permission.

Harvard Vocarium Recording (1951)

"Gerontion" T. S. Eliot

"A Song for Simeon" T. S. Eliot

"Triumphal March" T. S. Eliot

"Difficulties of a Statesman" T. S. Eliot

"Journey of the Magi" T. S. Eliot

"The Hollow Men" T. S. Eliot

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" T. S. Eliot

On the 100th Anniversary of explorer Ernest Shakleton’s colossal failure to traverse Antarctica, professor and historian Nancy Koehn explains how Shackleton’s extraordinary crisis leadership ensured the survival of his crew. Listen for story of the Endurance expedition and lessons from the HBS case study. 

Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival | Harvard Business School

Composer: Franz Biebl — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Ave Maria

The Reverend Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith's sermon on the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, Sunday July 12, 2015, in the Memorial Church.

The Rev. Dr. Lucy A. Forster-Smith — The Eyes of the Heart | Memorial Church

In episode seventeen we talk with Jennifer Listgarten of  Microsoft Research New England about her work using machine learning to answer questions in biology. We take a question from a listener about the development of computational biology and Ryan gives us some great advice on how to get into grad school (Spoiler alert: apply to the lab, not the program.)

Machine Learning in Biology and Getting into Grad School

In episode nineteen we chat with Hugo Larochelle, Ryan introduces us to autoencoders, plus we tackle the question of what is standing in the way of strong AI.

Strong AI and Autoencoders

Composer: Edward Elwyn Jones — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Suo Gân

Composer: Daniel Pinkham  — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Gloria In Excelsis Deo (from Christmas Cantata)

Composer: Charles Wood — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

Composer: John Rutter — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

All Bells in Paradise

Composer: John Henry Hopkins, Jr., arr. Steve Pilkington — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director

We Three Kings

Dr. Rebekka Lee, ScD, and the Harvard Prevention Research Center aim to find community-based solutions to obesity through interventions around nutrition and physical activity with local children in after-school programs.

Teach Them Young: Addressing the Childhood Obesity Epidemic Through After-School Programs

John F. Kennedy recording for public speaking class at Harvard, 1937. Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives.
 
John F. Kennedy’s short speech was recorded on an aluminum phonograph disc during the 1937-38 fall term session of English F, a course on public speaking taught by Frederick Clifton Packard, Jr. Kennedy, then a sophomore at Harvard College, briefly discusses the appointment to the Supreme Court of Hugo Black and the subsequent scandal after it was revealed that Black had been—and possibly still was—a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

Courtesy of the Harvard University Archives (HUM 258, Box 1).

Audio recording of John F. Kennedy student speech in Harvard College English F, 1937,  'Hugo Black.'

John F. Kennedy recording for public speaking class at Harvard, 1937

Morning Prayers service with speaker Mike Ranen, Resident Dean of Freshmen for Ivy Yard, Freshmen Dean's Office, Harvard College, October 16, 2017

Mike Ranen PhD ’08 – October 16, 2017 | Morning Prayers

Composer: attributed to John Francis Wade; descant by David Willcocks; organ interludes by John Ferris — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director. 107th Annual Christmas Carol Service, December 2016.

Adeste Fideles

Composer: French melody, harmonized by Edward Shippen Barnes — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director. 107th Annual Christmas Carol Service, December 2016.

Angels We Have Heard on High

Composer: Felix Mendelssoln; adapted by William H. Cummings; descant by David Willcocks — Performed by the Harvard University Choir; Edward E. Jones, Director. 107th Annual Christmas Carol Service, December 2016.

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company, was one of Europe’s largest coal users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy services. How did it engineer that monumental change? Mark Kramer discusses how CEO Francesco Starace’s vision of sustainability drove innovation and fostered a completely new enterprise around developing and promoting renewable energy.

How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader

In 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., soon to be Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, delivered a speech to the Harvard Law School forum.

Martin Luther King Jr., 1962 - Harvard Voices

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. At this Democracy Seminar sponsored by the Ash Center, political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new approach for responding to these issues called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that while the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or other discriminatory viewpoints.

When the State Speaks What Should It Say? | AshCast

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