On April 14th MURAL SPEAKS! rolls into Harvard Square:
https://www.facebook.com/muralspeaksharvard
On May 3rd I will be shaking the branches at Arnold Arboretum:
Follow that Fragrance! Chasing Lilac History
Ben Miller, Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and Team Lilac
Location: Hunnewell Building
White lilacs and Rachmaninov are connected how? What villainous role did lilac blooms play on the old “Batman” TV show? Can you name the Walt Whitman lilac poem not addressing President Lincoln’s assassination? This year at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, fellow Ben Miller and four Harvard College research partners (Theodore Delwiche ‘17, Sarah Blatt-Herold ‘18, Christine Legros ‘17, Ian Van Wye ‘17) have been harvesting material for a book-length lyric essay about the lilac aura, and ways it has filtered through their own lives and cultures around the globe. In this lively program, “Team Lilac” will present an array of poems, songs, monologues and visual art celebrating the lavish, mysterious, and ever-enduring charisma of Syringa vulgaris.
Ben Miller, author 