“The Fifth Annual Harvard-Yale Cantata”Feinstein’s / 54 Below  Thursday, September 12

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From: Jazz Promo Services
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If I recommend this show, you can rest assured that it’s worth catching, since my cynicism re higher education is well known (thank you Malcolm Gladwell) and I don’t have anything like a horse in this race. (In fact, I don’t know whom to root for; in this respect, the contest of Harvard vs. Yale strikes me overall as oddly reminiscent of the Iran-Iraq war.) However, I have seen at least two of the previous four evenings of this competition, and in spite of my general apathy regarding the overall concept, I’ve found it to be an enjoyable and stimulating evening of song, artfully presented by those two highly-sagacious hosts Tom Toce and Victoria Ordin. Considering that Leonard Bernstein and Alan Jay Lerner both went to Harvard and Cole Porter famously attended Yale, maybe there’s something to this Ivy League jazz after all.
 

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