In 1973, after the Union Theological Seminary’s School of Sacred Music, in New York City, closed its doors, the Indiana-based Irwin-Sweeney-Miller Foundation offered a grant to relocate the school to the campus of Yale University.
José García-León once gave a master class in piano to students in Buenos Aires — from his studio in New York. His piano was digitally synchronized with the one the students were playing, so that he could hear what they were playing on his piano and see...
Darwin Armenta, a senior at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, spends most Tuesday evenings rehearsing with a mariachi band. He grew up listening to the music, a distinct Mexican folk genre that combines brass and strings, at...