As a teenager in the army learning the French horn, Willie Ruff ’53M, ’54 M.M. was taught that “music don’t mean a thing unless it tells a story.” Though he will retire this May after 46 years on the School of Music faculty, the 85-year-old Ruff says he...
This month faculty and students from Yale School of Architecture will join their Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli counterparts in creating a vision for the first cross-border Peace Park to be established in the Middle East.On May 12, the joint teams...
The School of Music and the Office of Development at Yale University have announced the joint appointment of Betsy Carr as Director of Development for the School of Music. Carr, who had served in Yale’s development office for six years before leaving in...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present two performances of the opera “Orfeo,” by Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), on April 18, at 5:15 p.m., and on April 19 at 2 p.m. Free and open to the public, the performances will take place in Trinity...
To celebrate the establishment of the Hines Endowed Fund for Advanced Sustainability in Architectural Design, Yale School of Architecture will host a major symposium on April 4–5 reexamining fundamental assumptions of sustainable design.Titled “...
An exhibition showcasing the artist’s vision of modern architecture, lectures by Pritzker Prize winners Richard Meier and Frank Gehry, and symposia on sustainable architecture and the university as architectural patron are among the free and public events...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that Robert A.M. Stern has agreed to serve a third five-year term as dean of Yale School of Architecture, effective July 1, 2008.In making his announcement, Levin cited Stern’s “unprecedented...
Three of America’s foremost architects, all of whom have served as deans of the Yale School of Architecture, will participate in a symposium on the architecture and design of Yale libraries on November 30.The event, which is free and open to the public,...
Visitors to an upcoming demonstration/exhibit at the Yale School of Art, 1156 Chapel Street, will be able to observe the creative process unfolding as a group of artists figure out how to “make do” with a material of their choice, and then later see the...
The nature of religious architecture in the contemporary age is the focus of two events being held at Yale this week.A conference titled “Architecture for Worship in the 21st Century” will take place Thursday–Friday, October 25–26, at the Institute of...
