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-...
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...
World-renowned conductor Masaaki Suzuki will conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum and an orchestra composed of Baroque ensembles from Yale and Juilliard, in a free performance of J.S. Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion on May 6.The performance marks the...
Students at Yale School of Art — consistently ranked as one of the top two fine arts schools in the nation — will open their studios to the public this year on Sunday, May 15, 12 noon to 6 p.m.The annual event showcases the work of an elite and...
Scholars, artists and other individuals around the world will enjoy free access to online images of millions of objects housed in Yale’s museums, archives, and libraries thanks to a new “Open Access” policy that the University announced today. Yale is the...
Fifty outstanding music educators from across the nation will converge on the Yale campus on June 9 for a three-day symposium celebrating their individual achievements and looking toward new horizons in music education.Coinciding with the opening of the...
The stage of the Summer Cabaret at Yale will transform back and forth between Prospero’s fantastical island to a lovesick forest to the battlefields of England as an ensemble of actors performs a rotating repertory of three works by Shakespeare this...