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Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Yale Philharmonia Apr. 5

Guest conductor Peter Oundjian leads the Yale Philharmonia Apr. 5

Concert features American works of Rouse, Barber, Copland, and Adams The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale with its principal guest conductor, Peter Oundjian, on Friday, April 5, 2013. The program highlights American music from the past hundred years, from Aaron Copland to John Adams. The concert takes place at 8 pm in [...]


St. Lawrence String Quartet performs Mozart, John Adams, and more April 3

St. Lawrence String Quartet performs Mozart,  John Adams, and more April 3

Adams composed his String Quartet expressly for SLSQ The Yale School of Music presents the St. Lawrence String Quartet in concert on Tuesday, April 3. “The St. Lawrence,” writes The New Yorker, “are remarkable not simply for the quality of their music making, exalted as it is, but for the joy they take in the [...]


Yale Philharmonia and Oundjian perform Bruch, Adams, Tchaikovsky Oct. 21

Yale Philharmonia and Oundjian perform Bruch, Adams, Tchaikovsky Oct. 21

Violinist Soo Ryun Baek performs Bruch’s “Scottish Fantasy” The Yale School of Music presents the Philharmonia Orchestra of Yale in a concert featuring music by Max Bruch and John Adams along with Tchaikovsky’s Second Symphony on Friday, October 21, 2011 at 8 pm in Woolsey Hall (500 College Street, New Haven). Peter Oundjian, music director [...]


Composer John Adams to lecture on campus Oct 28-29

New Haven, Conn. — Master American composer John Adams will deliver the 2009 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 28 and 29 at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street.  His first talk, “Doctor Faustus and His Composition: Reflections on Thomas Mann’s Fictional Composer,” will be held on October 28, and his second, “Doctor [...]