In memoriam: composer and conductor Buryl Red, 77
Buryl Red ’61MM, a conductor, producer, and arranger known world-wide as the musical director of The Century Men and composer of the 1972 classic Celebrate Life, died April 1. Red, 77, was born in Little Rock, Ark., and studied at Baylor and Yale Universities. Described by the Washington Post as “uncommonly creative,” Red’s extensive body of [...]
In memoriam: Dave Brubeck, 91
On December 5 the music world, and in particular American music, lost one of its great artists. Dave Brubeck‘s distinctive voice changed the landscape of jazz in this country and beyond. One of Brubeck’s lifelong friendships was with Aldo Parisot, Professor of Cello of Yale and one of Yale’s longest-serving faculty members. This relationship began [...]
In memoriam: John Warner Swallow
John Swallow, Professor Emeritus of Music, died Saturday, October 20, 2012 after a long illness. In a message to the School, Dean Robert Blocker wrote of the community’s “admiration and affection” for Professor Swallow, who came to the School of Music in 1965 as a Lecturer of Trombone. Swallow retired in 2001 as Professor of Trombone, [...]
In memoriam: Richard Warren, Jr.
Richard Warren, Jr. (1937–2012), the curator of the Historical Sound Recordings Collection and the American Musical Theatre Collection at the Gilmore Music Library, died Sunday, October 7, 2012 at Yale New Haven Hospital following a stroke. He was 75. Robert Blocker, Dean of the School of Music, said, “The recent loss of Rich Warren came as [...]
Obituary: Lili Chookasian, contralto, faculty member
Lili Chookasian, a renowned contralto who sang at the Metropolitan Opera and taught at the Yale School of Music, died peacefully in her sleep on April 10, 2012. Chookasian was born in Chicago, on August 1, 1921 and celebrated her 90th birthday last summer. In her career, she appeared with many of the world’s major [...]
A Message from the Dean
Dear Colleagues and Friends, It has been a great comfort to me to observe how our community has come together and sustained each other since John Miller’s death Thursday morning. Thank you for the many ways you have reached out to the YSM community with your expressions about John and the enormous influence he had [...]
In memoriam: Violinist and conductor Sidney Harth, former faculty member
Violinist and conductor Sidney Harth died on February 15, 2011 in Pittsburgh. He was 85 years old. Harth served on the faculty of the Yale School of Music for seventeen years; he also led the conducting programs at Mannes College of Music, University of Texas in Houston, and the Hartt College of Music. He was [...]
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 [...]
Obituary: Professor Emeritus Donald Currier, 91
Donald Currier, Professor Emeritus of Pianoforte at the Yale School of Music, died at Yale-New Haven Hospital on January 7th, 2010, after a brief illness. In his thirty-eight years on the Yale faculty, he was highly regarded as a teacher and consummate performer. According to Dean Robert Blocker of the Yale School of Music, “Don [...]
Obituary: Isabelle DeWitt, first editor of Music at Yale Magazine
Isabelle Hollister Tuttle DeWitt, the first editor of Music at Yale Magazine, died Saturday, September 26th at her home in New Haven, Conn. She was 82 years old. Mrs. DeWitt was born November 14th, 1926, in Boston, MA, to Isabelle Hollister Tuttle and H. Emerson Tuttle. She spent much of her childhood in New Haven, [...]
