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...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
If it weren’t for the fact that one weekend of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) is taking place on Yale’s West Campus, Yale staff member Andrea Miller might not be making new art.
Miller spent much of her adult life working full-time as a fiber...
As part of its 100th-year celebration, the Yale Concert Band will open its season with a concert featuring a duo of pieces from 1918 and will play a piece in honor of Leonard Bernstein, who shared a birthday with the band (also 1918).
At a certain time in his life, Yale School of Music graduate Daniel Juarez M.M. ’02 aspired to a successful career as an opera star. These days, however, he measures success a bit differently.
Today, he says, he has the “best of both worlds”: a job at...
To celebrate Yale’s hosting of City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) on the West Campus, all members of the campus community are invited to a special Preview Day on Friday, Oct. 26, when they can view the works of over 200 artists — as well as special events and...
It begins with a bike tour on the East Coast Greenway and ends with a performance by the Grammy-nominated Cuban timba group Tienpo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In between, there will be circus acts; storytelling; discussions about art,...
The annual month-long arts festival known as City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) will kick off with an opening reception on Oct. 4, and the work of dozens of Yale-affiliated artists will be on view.
Yale is a major sponsor of CWOS, Connecticut’s leading visual...
The Fountain of Youth may be a myth or a metaphor, but in early November, visitors to City-wide Open Studios (CWOS) at Yale’s West Campus will have the opportunity to take a short journey in search of the fabled source of eternal youth.
Along the way,...
Three School of Drama departments — Stage Management, Technical Design & Production, and Theater Management — have eliminated the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) requirement for prospective applicants.
The GRE is a standardized exam typically...