Updated: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 5:44pm
It is Tuesday morning at John C. Daniels Magnet School. Class is in session and the building is quiet, save for faint music echoing down the sunshine-flooded halls. Inside the music auditorium, more than a dozen sixth-grade students perch in front of music stands, flutes, clarinets and trumpets in hand. Some play Brahams, others Christmas carols. Music classes like this...
As details have emerged in recent weeks about the Yale Philharmonia’s trip to the Beijing Olympic Games this summer, School of Music officials are seeking to put the tour in the context of an “arts march for peace.” “If one looks at artistic enterprises at their very best notion, the arts do offer hope and can build bridges of understanding,” School of Music...
While David Lang’s MUS ’83 compositional style may be decidedly contemporary, his composing efforts have won recognition from an award steeped in tradition. Lang was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Music on Monday for his composition titled “The Little Match Girl Passion.” The piece, which was first performed at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 27, 2007, was inspired by the...
Raga enthusiasts and curious students got their fill of the traditional Indian musical idiom during a Saturday performance by world-renowned sitar player Ustad Shahid Parvez Khan. Parvez, accompanied by tabla player Aditya Kalyanpur, serenaded over 300 members of the Yale and New Haven community during a benefit concert in Battell Chapel. The Yale Raga Society, a newly...
The Yale Concert Band played the first half of a concert exchange program with the historically black Morgan State University this weekend, marking an effort by band leaders to bring together musicians of different backgrounds. Saturday’s concert at the Baltimore school was Morgan State’s first concert exchange with an Ivy League school and the first time any school...
For Bryan Senti MUS ’09, watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood as a child has always been “a weird memory.” “It was always a very transcendental experience,” Senti said, referring specifically to the show’s “Neighborhood of Make-Believe” segment. “I was always in total suspense. It was a very surreal, early-Tim Burton experience.” So when Senti set...
Now that long-time Yale Jazz Ensemble director Dave Brandenburg ’92 is being replaced by a Yale School of Music graduate student, the YJE will just have to play it by ear. Thomas C. Duffy, director of Yale Bands, said the decision to place the YJE under student direction has nothing to do with the quality of the ensemble or the band’s financial situation. Instead, he...
The ornate and sometimes-forgotten sounds of the Baroque era are being revived at Yale. The Yale Baroque Orchestra will make its debut performance at Trinity Lutheran Church on the corner of Orange and Wall streets at 7 p.m. on Tuesday. Featuring the students of Music 227, “Rhetoric and Early String Performance,” accompanied by harpsichord players from Music 226...
Strains of “Apples and Bananas” and “Down by the Bay” floated through a crammed Sudler Hall on Friday night as hundreds of Yalies gathered to relive a part of their childhoods and “shake their sillies out” during “An Evening with Raffi.” “I told my mom I was coming to hear Raffi perform, and she started crying,” Andy Shumaker ’10 said. “I was a...
No one understands existential angst like Bonnie “Prince” Billy, aka Will Oldham. Who is he? What should he do with himself? In forging his identity, should he incorporate a little Bjork, or R. Kelly? Or both? While Billy may not know the answers, he seems hopeful that he can figure it out through covering other people’s songs. And yodeling. In a world of...
The title of Levon Helm’s new album — “Dirt Farmer” — captures the last few years of the former Band drummer’s life. No, Helm is not a down-and-out agriculturist, but he has had enough trials and tribulations of late to draw comparisons. Diagnosed with throat cancer in 1998, Helm was told that he might never speak — let alone sing — again. The hefty cost...
From the concert halls of Europe, Severin von Eckardstein will bring his virtuoso musical talents to New Haven for a piano recital at Morse Recital Hall as a part of the Horowitz Piano Series. Von Eckardstein’s name may not sound familiar to the casual music follower here in the United States. That is not for a lack of talent — von Eckardstein is a professional...
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