The Gitameit Voices, the choir of the only community music school in Burma, will give a concert with Yale student groups on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange St.According to concert organizers, Gitameit Voices is the first...
Yale University Bands and Rap Group 4PEACE are soliciting high school students from Connecticut schools to submit lyrics over backbeats provided by hip-hop artists 4PEACE.The student who writes the best rap with a positive message will perform at Yale...
Yale University will hold its fourth annual Italian film festival, “Italian Cinema: New Directors, New Directions,” April 23–26, in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. All screenings are free and open to the public.The films, in Italian...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
Two performances of “Giasone,” the best-known opera by Italian composer Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), will be the centerpiece of an international Cavalli conference taking place at Yale April 30–May 2. The opera and conference are presented by the Yale...
Led by conductor Simon Carrington, Yale Schola Cantorum, the chamber choir of the Institute of Sacred Music, will give two performances of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, on April 24 and 25.Both performances, the choral group’s final concerts of the season,...
The art of ketubah — the marriage contract Jewish law requires a groom to provide for his bride on their wedding day — is featured in a new exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library.The ketubah is intended to protect the woman by establishing the man’s...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
Peter Millard, architect and retired member of the faculty of the Yale School of Architecture, died on March 30, at Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Connecticut. He was 84 years old. Millard, who earned a bachelor’s degree in architecture from Yale in...
Yale University has completed construction of a new ultra-green building—designed to use 50 percent less energy than a comparably sized modern building—for its School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). Kroon Hall achieves its remarkable...