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...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the creation of the Yale Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage, funded by a gift of $25 million from Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin ‘78. The Institute, to be housed on Yale’s...
Anne-Marie Soullière, Foundation President at Fidelity Investments, has agreed to serve as one of the Trustees for the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate in Norfolk, Conn.Soullière has served as chief executive of the Fidelity Foundations since 1987 and as a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
