CD to feature Bands Director Everett

The Boston Brass Series has just released All-American Trombone, a CD by the Harvard Wind Ensemble, Bands Director Thomas G. Everett, and Boston Symphony Orchestra principal trombonist Ron Barron. The disc includes the premiere recording of James Willey's Three Pieces for Trombone and Piano and the first commercial professional recording of William Goldstein's Colloquy for Trombone and Band. Also featured are works by Leonard Bernstein, Herbert L. Clarke, Arthur Pryor, and Alec Wilder.

Copies of the CD (#BB-1003, @ $16.50) are available from the Boston Brass Series, c/o Ron Barron, 18 Turner Terrace, Newtonville, MA 02160; 965-3957. For more information, contact the Wind Ensemble at 496-2263 (phone) or 496-DRUM (fax).

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Noma-Reischauer Prizes given for Japan-related work

The first Noma-Reischauer Prizes for best graduate and undergraduate essays in Japanese studies were awarded at the Edwin R. Reischauer/Kodansha Commemorative Symposium.

Christine Murasaki Millett, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, received $3,000 in the graduate category for her essay, "Pilgrimage in the Genji monogatari." Mark Freeman, a senior concentrator in East Asian studies, received the $2,000 prize in the undergraduate category for his essay, "The Traditional Expectation: The Rhetoric of Sacrifice in Postwar Japan."

George Packard, of Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies, who was a special assistant to Professor Reischauer when he was Ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966, was the keynote speaker at the symposium, held at the Reischauer House in Belmont.

Tadayuki Tashiro, vice president of Kodansha Ltd. Publishers, was on hand to present the awards.

For more information on prizes for 1997, call 495-3220.