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...
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...