“Objects are messy,” says Yale art historian Edward S. Cooke Jr. Specifically, unlike objects typically called “fine art,” the stories of functional objects, such as furniture, textiles, and ceramics, are often neither chronological nor limited by a...
More than century ago, a teenager named Helen Hagan arrived on the Yale campus as a student at the Yale School of Music (which then offered undergraduate degrees). But she already had plenty of experience performing before audiences in New Haven.
Hagan...
Yale faculty members Daphne Brooks and Braxton Shelley recently won top prizes from professional musical societies for their groundbreaking music scholarship.
Brooks was awarded the Music in American Culture Award from the American Musicological Society...
When Yale School of Music student Ilana Zaks performs her Master of Musical Arts recital at Sprague Hall this week, it will not be a typical concert experience.
For starters, she’ll begin the recital in the hall’s balcony with her audience seated on the...
Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never...
In the early, most isolating days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Alicia Schmidt Camacho, head of Ezra Stiles College, sent and received poetry from her students as a way of staying connected during a period of remote learning. She noticed that one poet whose...
Hilary Hahn, a violin virtuoso and multi-Grammy winning artist, will visit the Yale campus twice this spring to work with student musicians and composers as an artist-in-residence at Timothy Dwight College.
During the short-term residency, Hahn hosted...
There’s an intersection on the Yale campus that always fills senior Sarah Tang with delight.
It’s where College, Grove, and Prospect streets meet on Science Hill. She particularly loves the view of Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona (SSS) Hall, a Neo-Gothic...
A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola. Cécile Fromont, a professor in the history of art in Yale’s...
