Wei-Yi Yang, Karen von Kunes explore Czech music and literature April 1
Wei-Yi Yang, a member of the School of Music faculty, and Karen von Kunes, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, will present “Leoš Janáček & Milan Kundera: a confluence of Czech music and literature” on Monday, April 1. Yang will perform Janáček’s rarely-played piano cycle On an Overgrown Path, written 1900–1912, alongside [...]
Concerts & master classes with clarinetist Charles Neidich, pianist Robert Levin
The Yale Collection of Musical Instruments presents clarinetist Charles Neidich and pianist Robert Levin in a series of performances, master classes, and workshops next week. The duo will perform a program featuring works by Robert Schumann (1810-1856), Clara Schumann (1819–1896), and Johannes Brahms (1833–1897). Those performances take place Sunday, December 2 at 3 pm and Monday, December 3 at [...]
Willie Ruff to lecture on jazz legend Oscar Pettiford May 13
Willie Ruff, Professor of Music and the Director of the Duke Ellington Fellowship at Yale, will present “Blues in the Closet,” a musical portrait of the legendary bassist and cellist Oscar Pettiford, on Sunday, May 13 at 3 pm. Pettiford, born in 1922 in Oklahoma to parents of African American and Native American ancestry, is [...]
Elena Sorokina to lecture on Russian piano culture
The piano department of the Yale School of Music presents a lecture by Elena Sorokina on Wednesday, Feb. 23. Sorokina, the head of the department of Russian music history at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, will speak on Russian Piano Culture during the Silver Age (1890-1910). The event will take place Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at [...]
“If you arrange it, they will listen”: a talk by Benjamin Verdery
New York City Classical Guitar Society presents the talk on July 1 at 7 pm Our monthly event for July will be feature Benjamin Verdery in a talk entitled “If You Arrange It, They Will Listen!” Ben has arranged music from Mozart to Hendrix for the guitar, and in this talk he will share his [...]
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 [...]
Alfred Brendel lecture with musical examples
Unique program by legendary pianist on November 11 will be followed the next day by a public master class The Horowitz Piano Series at the Yale School of Music presents a lecture by the eminent pianist Alfred Brendel on Wednesday, November 11 at 8 pm in Sprague Hall. Titled “On Character in Music,” the lecture [...]
