The Yale School of Architecture (YSoA) will pay homage to renowned architect and planner Kevin Roche in a series of free and public events that include the first comprehensive retrospective exhibition of his work ever mounted (February 7–May 6), a...
Distinguished cultural historian Gary Tomlinson will deliver the opening 2011 Shulman Lecture in Science and the Humanities on February 3, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street. His talk, “Paleolithic Formalism and the Emergence of Music,” will...
From its earliest days as a group of 13 men from the Class of 1863 to its current incarnation as an 80-voice chorus of men and women, the Yale Glee Club has been performing for audiences throughout the nation and around the world.Now, to mark its century-...
Robert Storr has been reappointed as dean of the Yale School of Art, announced President Richard C. Levin.The Dean begins his second five-year term July 1.“Dean Storr is valued for his refreshing and exciting vision for the school and for opening the...
One of the world’s foremost collections of its kind, the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, housed at 15 Hillhouse Ave., regularly provides a setting for concerts of early music by prominent performers and provides audience members with an...
Music lovers all over the world celebrated Franz Schubert’s 214th birthday on January 31. On Wednesday, February 23, music lovers in Connecticut can celebrate again when the renowned pianist Emanuel Ax gives an all-Schubert recital presented by the Yale...
Genre-defying American poet and critic Susan Howe has been named the 2011 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.Announcing the poet’s selection for the Bollingen Prize, the judges wrote, “In more than three decades of writing,...
There will be a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “B-Minor Mass” by the renowned Bach Collegium Japan on Saturday, March 26, to benefit Yale’s relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in Japan.Conducted by the founder of the Collegium, Masaaki...
Renowned British historian Sir David Cannadine will give a lecture on the artistic pursuits of Winston Churchill at the Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street, on Thursday, April 21, at 5:30 p.m.Cannadine’s lecture, titled “Painting as a Pastime...
The new All-City Band — a collaborative venture of Yale School of Music and New Haven Public Schools (NHPS) — will make its debut performance on Tuesday, May 10, at 7 p.m. in Sprague Hall, 470 College St.The new band is one of several projects to grow out...
