Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
“You sell 3 million copies, you become a role model,” hip-hop artist Chris “Ludacris” Bridges said Thursday afternoon. The 60 Branford College students, who had waited in line for tickets a day earlier, gathered in Master Steven Smith’s living room for a Master’s Tea with the legendary rapper. Ludacris told the audience about his rise to stardom and discussed...
Elis were not the only students to hear from Christopher “Ludacris” Bridges on Thursday. Before yesterday’s widely anticipated Branford Master’s Tea, the Grammy winning rapper and actor appeared at a private event organized by Ward 22 Alderman Greg Morehead with over 50 New Haven high school students. The event, held at the Rose Center in Dixwell, was...
John Mangan, the Graduate School’s assistant dean of administration, will leave Yale in June to join the Curtis Institute of Music as vice-president and dean. Mangan will oversee the academic, musical studies and performance curricula at Curtis, succeeding Robert Fitzpatrick. Prior to becoming Yale’s assistant dean, Mangan served as the dean of Jonathan Edwards...
The funk rock band N*E*R*D, the remix artist Girl Talk and the rapper Wale are slated to perform at Spring Fling next month, the News has learned. The Yale College Council and the Yale Student Activities Committee, which plan the annual concert, have not yet announced this year’s performers. But the three musical acts are listed on the Web site of Pollstar, a trade...
Uncertain economic prospects have cast a cloud of paranoia over Audubon Street, the epicenter of New Haven’s arts scene. Located off Whitney Avenue, Audubon Street claims to be New Haven’s arts district, home to the Neighborhood Music School, the Creative Arts Workshop and the Education Center for the Arts. With private donations drying up and enrollments dropping...
When director Peter Jackson asked Howard Shore to compose the score for “The Lord of the Rings” film trilogy, Shore studied J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy world before beginning four years of writing music. At a Master’s Tea Tuesday afternoon, Shore shared insights about composing, orchestrating, conducting and producing more than ten hours of music to accompany “The...
James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Diana Krall — these are but a few of the world-famous musicians who have collaborated with Yo-Yo Ma, the celebrated cellist who will perform next Tuesday at the 44th Presidential Inauguration. Kevin Olusola ’10 would like to see his name added to that list, and he is nerve-wrackingly close. At the end of December , Olusola entered...
When Austin Kase ’11 was a high school student in New Jersey, he noticed the dearth of musical instruments at public schools. To fill the void, he launched Share the Music, a program that accepts donated instruments and places them in music classrooms. Recently, Share the Music became an official undergraduate organization, collaborating with other Yale groups, such as...
In an e-mail to Davenport College students announcing discount tickets to the Connecticut Folk Festival, Master’s assistant Barabara Munck included a brief schedule. Next to the headliner’s name, she felt compelled to add a qualifier: “Steve Earle (a legend!).” She wasn’t wrong — the folk rocker has been one of most influential figures in modern country —...
The Professors of Bluegrass are a motley crew, but they have no relation to the heavy-metal band. Their name not withstanding, only two of the seven are actually professors. Their titles and professions range from the next provost of Yale College to Saybrook College junior to artisan woodworker. The seven members sit around a table in Yale College Dean Peter Salovey’s...
Early Friday afternoon, a hard decision had to be made: With 24 hours till stage time, and rain clouds on the make, should the Connecticut Folk Festival go ahead with its Saturday open-air venue in Edgerton Park, or retreat to the weather-protected auditorium of the Southern Connecticut State University? The director of the festival, Barbara Manners, considered her...
Rich chords cresendoed beneath the emerald and gold ceiling of Woolsey Hall as Jessica French MUS ’08 struck at the ivory keys of the organ during her senior recital. Immediately, the audience was swept into the notes of Charles Tournemire’s “Victimae Paschali” that sounded from the majestic pipes. French was taken on a different musical journey, enveloped in a...
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