Photos: Music in Schools and Class of 1957
While in town for their 55th reunion, members of the Yale College Class of 1957 had lunch with young students from New Haven’s John C. Daniels School. The two groups joined together to celebrate YSM’s Music in Schools Initiative, which is supported by the class. The young musicians performed for the Class of ’57 and [...]
Class of 1957 celebrates Music in Schools Initiative with young students
Last Friday, while in town for their 55th reunion, members of the Yale College Class of 1957 had lunch with young students from New Haven’s John C. Daniels School. The two groups joined together to celebrate YSM’s Music in Schools Initiative, which is supported by the class. Michael Yaffe, the associate dean of the School [...]
Yale College Class of 1957 receives award
The Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) recently awarded its Outstanding Class Volunteer Engagement and Leadership Award to the Yale College Class of 1957. In its citation, AYA praised the Class “for conceiving and funding the Class of ’57 Music Endowment to enable Yale to share its resources in support of music education for urban public [...]
Music in Schools program featured on Channel 3 WFSB “Cool Schools” segment
Music and Film program featuring Yale composers and performers working with students at John C. Daniels School and Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School The Music and Film program, part of Yale’s Music in Schools initiative sponsored by the Yale School of Music and the Yale Class of ’57 Outreach Program, was featured recently on [...]
Lucia Brawley to give keynote address
Lucia Brawley, an actress, writer, and outspoken advocate of arts education, will give the keynote address at Yale’s 2009 Symposium on Music in Schools. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Brawley has also studied at Harvard University and Trinity College (Dublin). She regularly blogs about arts education for the Huffington Post. Her stated [...]
Share the Music comes to city schools
(originally published in the Yale Daily News)
Frances Sawyer Yale Daily News 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 [...]
Yale announces 2009 Symposium on Music in Schools
The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce the second biannual Symposium on Music in Schools for June 10-11, 2009. Sponsored by the Yale College Class of 1957 and the Yale School of Music, the Symposium is part of the Music in Schools project, initiated by the Class of ’57 in honor of their [...]
