Two performances of “Giasone,” the best-known opera by Italian composer Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676), will be the centerpiece of an international Cavalli conference taking place at Yale April 30–May 2. The opera and conference are presented by the Yale...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...
Yale University will hold its fourth annual Italian film festival, “Italian Cinema: New Directors, New Directions,” April 23–26, in the Whitney Humanities Center auditorium, 53 Wall St. All screenings are free and open to the public.The films, in Italian...
Yale University Bands and Rap Group 4PEACE are soliciting high school students from Connecticut schools to submit lyrics over backbeats provided by hip-hop artists 4PEACE.The student who writes the best rap with a positive message will perform at Yale...
The Gitameit Voices, the choir of the only community music school in Burma, will give a concert with Yale student groups on April 27 at 7:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 292 Orange St.According to concert organizers, Gitameit Voices is the first...
A symposium examining the work of 1981 Pritzker Prize laureate James Stirling will take place May 9–10 at the Yale School of Architecture, where the influential architect taught in 1959 and from 1966 to 1984.Titled “James Stirling, Architect and Teacher...
An estimated 1,000 high school students from seven Connecticut cities gathered in Woolsey Hall on May 6 for a rap concert with the message of non-violence and respect. The event, titled “Rap for Justice,” included performances by the Yale Concert Band,...
Fifty music educators from schools around the country will be honored for their outstanding work June 10–11 at the second biennial “Symposium on Music in Schools” hosted by Yale School of Music.The symposium will include a keynote address by arts activist...
Yale School of Drama has announced that the New Theater, a 200-seat state-of-the art performance venue located at 1156 Chapel Street, was renamed the Frederick Iseman Theater in a dedication ceremony on May 30.The renaming of Yale’s premier “black box”...
The Yale School of Music will host the premiere of two films — one live-action, one animated — that were made by New Haven public school students through the support of the Yale Music in Schools Initiative.The movies will be screened on June 12 in Sprague...