Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
Paul McCartney long ago made himself a household name through his songs. On Thursday he came to Yale to talk about where they came from.
In a wide-ranging and informal conversation about his bestselling book “The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present,” the former...
While drafting his plans for the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), architect Louis Kahn made the building’s roof integral to its design.
The acclaimed architect, who called the roof of the iconic modernist building its “fifth elevation,” aimed to...