Fourth Symposium on Music in Schools to take place June 6–9, 2013
Fifty Yale Distinguished Music Educators Announced The fourth Symposium on Music in Schools will take place at the Yale School of Music June 6–9, 2013. Supported by the Yale College Class of 1957, the Symposium is a core program of the Music in Schools Initiative honoring outstanding public school music teachers from around the United [...]
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 [...]
Michael Yaffe receives national award
National Guild Service Award recognizes exceptional long-term achievement in community arts education The Yale School of Music is pleased to announce that Associate Dean Michael Yaffe was honored with the National Guild Service Award this past Saturday, November 11. Conferred by the National Guild for Community Arts Education, the award recognizes individuals who have given [...]
Michael Yaffe on arts education
An Emotional Education through Music These remarks are adapted from a talk given on August 18 at the final event of the second annual Morse Summer Music Academy on August 18. The Academy’s 51 students, who are in grades 5 through 11 in the New Haven Public Schools, undertook four weeks of intensive music instruction [...]
Morses visit the Morse Academy
Enid and Lester Morse ’51 today visited the School of Music to attend a concert by students in the Morse Summer Music Academy. After performances by a clarinet ensemble, a saxophone quintet, and a solo flutist, the audience heard something new: Academy student Jose Meza had written a piece dedicated to the Morses, to thank [...]
Morse Summer Music Academy begins second season
Today was the first day of school for fifty-one young musicians in the Morse Summer Music Academy. Now in its second year, the Morse Academy at the Yale School of Music offers intensive music instruction for students in grades 5 through 11 in the New Haven Public Schools. The 2011 Morse Academy runs from July [...]
In Memoriam: Dr. Regina Warner
Dr. Regina Lilly-Warner, a long-time advocate for music in the public schools of New Haven and beyond, passed away on Monday, January 17, 2011. She is survived by her husband, Dr. Charles E. Warner, who served over three decades in the New Haven Public Schools before his retirement in 2010, and their three children. Regina [...]
Dantes Rameau ’07MM receives $25,000 AOL grant
AOL Inc., as part of its 25th anniversary “Project on Creativity,” announced 25 grants of $25,000 each for creative work. The winners, including Dantes Rameau ’07MM, were chosen from over 9,000 applicants. The judges included Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art; entrepreneur Andy Spade; and Tim Armstrong, Chief Executive Officer of [...]
New Morse Summer Academy gets underway at the School of Music
Musical talents of 42 New Haven students nurtured through free summer music academy Cultivating the musical talents of New Haven students is the focus of a new Yale School of Music program making its debut this summer July 26 through August 30. The Morse Summer Music Academy at YSM is designed to nurture creativity and [...]
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 [...]
