Before the Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO) performed in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory this summer during its first-ever Russian tour, music director Toshiyuki Shimada feared there would not be much of an audience.
The concert was scheduled for 3...
For now, Yale clinical faculty member Katherine Malensek isn’t bothered by the fact that the living room in her home is more art studio than sitting space.
More often than not, the room is littered with an easel, paints, crayons, and other supplies, as...
In the spring semester, Yale students will reconstruct a dance created by renowned choreographer Paul Taylor that has not been performed in four decades.
They will be guided in this effort by guest artists closest to the source — members of the Paul...
For more than three decades, members of the campus and wider communities have joined their voices with those of Yale Glee Club singers each December for the annual “Messiah Sing-along” in Battell Chapel.
It’s one of their favorite events of the year for...
Four Yale alumni — Michael Apuzzo ’05, Sidra Bell ’01, Emily Coates ’06, and Brian Seibert ’97 — will discuss their diverse career paths in the dance world on Monday, Jan. 22, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Center for Collaborative Arts & Media, 149 York St.
The...
Grammy Ward-winning saxophonist and Yale faculty member Wayne Escoffery will be featured in a free concert with the Yale Jazz Ensemble on Monday, Feb. 26.
The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will take place in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial...
While being honored March 8 by the International Festival of Arts & Ideas with its eighth Visionary Leadership Award, poet Claudia Rankine described an encounter that she said is not all that uncommon for her. A white man approached to her to tell her...
A bluegrass mandolin concerto, the world premiere of a new piece with the Fair Haven Middle School Band, and a special performance by the Yale Handbell Ensemble will highlight the Yale Concert Band’s spring concert on Friday, April 13.
The concert will...
For over a month, students, fellows, and staff members in Timothy Dwight College (TD) have enjoyed peering up toward the dining hall ceiling to look at two brightly colored quilts. Some even feel a little bit like they are being “watched over” by someone...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...