Yale School of Music

BMOP Residency Culminates for Norman

Tue, 21 May 2013 11:13:20 -0400

The piece is really an exploration of the way people play their instruments. Oftentimes it pushes into strange and new ways to play instruments or unusual ways to play the instruments. I also thought a lot about the orchestra as an instrument and how an orchestra is played and how it has all these interwoven parts that play with each other or against each other.

I’m also very interested in this physical act of playing an instrument and what it looks like physically and how when we go to an orchestra concert it’s not only an auditory medium, it’s something we look at.

Normally when we think of play it’s a very fun word and sort of whimsical but I was also thinking of these other more dark aspects of the word play. The idea of manipulation like someone played someone else, almost a kind of puppet and puppet master kind of way that someone is fooling someone else.

Mount Rushmore

Mon, 13 May 2013 10:40:33 -0400

Mount Rushmore:

A new recording of music by Michael Daugherty ‘82MMA, ‘87DMA, with Grammy Award-winning organist Paul Jacobs ‘02MM, ‘03AD among the featured performers.

Naxos Records presents the latest release from composer Michael Daugherty (b. 1954); a compilation of three world premieres for orchestra and choir. The works combine to form a fascinating look at several important centerpieces of what is referred to as, “The Greatest Generation,” the period of American history between the Great Depression and World War II.
…The three subjects featured on this recording make for an absorbing look at the current musical compositions from this University of Michigan professor

Caroline Shaw, a North Carolina native not looking to be called a composer, wins music's Pulitzer

Thu, 09 May 2013 14:49:38 -0400

Caroline Shaw, a North Carolina native not looking to be called a composer, wins music's Pulitzer:

It is unorthodox music, and Shaw, though an accomplished violinist and singer, is an unorthodox choice for the Pulitzer. After all, she shapes her pieces in large group settings, a context that’s contrary to the Pulitzer’s aim of honoring a single individual’s masterpiece. And she prefers not to call herself a composer, either. During our interview, she refers to herself once by the dreaded term, then immediately backtracks: “Ah, I didn’t just use that word.”

Stoltzman, Kohji Taylor join ECMP for McKinley world premiere

Tue, 07 May 2013 10:54:22 -0400

Stoltzman, Kohji Taylor join ECMP for McKinley world premiere:

World-renowned clarinetist Richard Stoltzman and virtuoso violinist Andrew Kohji Taylor will join the Essex Chamber Music Players May 19 at 2 p.m.…
Stoltzman, McKinley, and Finegold were in the same Yale School of Music graduate class. Taylor is a Yale School of Music graduate as well.

ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:56:56 -0400

ConcertoNet.com - The Classical Music Network:

To revise Beecham on Wagner, a night of Hindemith music isn’t half as bad as it sounds…
Yet students–from Germany to Turkey to Yale University, where he taught–revered him. And the Yale School of Music gave him all due honors last night in the beautiful Weill Concert Hall.

'Battle Hymns' review: war transcended

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:43:01 -0400

'Battle Hymns' review: war transcended:

“Battle Hymns” has its share of magical moments, including a gorgeous and all-too-brief passage in which members of the children’s chorus hum with their hands over their mouths to produce a Ligetiesque swirl of sound… “Battle Hymns” concludes on a transcendent note, with a surrealist and practically wordless setting based on Foster’s “Beautiful Dreamer.” Suddenly, all the regimentation of the staging is jettisoned, as the performers mill about the space singing suspended harmonies at the edge of audibility. The effect is intoxicating and powerful.

yaleuniversity: Photos of Yvette Mattern’s night rainbow laser...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:41:43 -0400

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yaleuniversity:

Photos of Yvette Mattern’s night rainbow laser light sculpture beaming across New Haven, CT in celebration of the Elm City’s 375th birthday.

The display will run from dusk to 1am until April 27th. Learn more: nightrainbownewhaven.com.

Do you have a photo of the night rainbow? Share it with us at socialmedia@yale.edu, or tag it with #NHV375!

"Hindemith: Master and Prankster" at Weill Recital Hall

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:01:13 -0400

"Hindemith: Master and Prankster" at Weill Recital Hall:

An April 28 concert devoted to Hindemith at Weill Recital Hall will recall his pranks and provocations.
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On April 28 the Jasper String Quartet will cast aside its customary aesthetic standards when it performs Hindemith’s “Dutchman” at Weill Recital Hall as part of a Yale in New York concert devoted to “Hindemith: Master and Prankster.” Hindemith, who died 50 years ago this December, was a serious composer and one of the 20th century’s most influential. A prodigious writer who often dashed off a composition between stations on a train journey, he left a catalog cluttered with occasional pieces and musical jokes, among them the mock military string quartet “Minimax,” named after a brand of fire extinguisher, which will also be part of the concert.

Cliburn Confidential: Lindsay Garritson | Van Cliburn | Dallas-Fort Worth Lifestyles News | S...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:41:55 -0400

Cliburn Confidential: Lindsay Garritson | Van Cliburn | Dallas-Fort Worth Lifestyles News | S...:

Best concert memory: “…one that is very special to me is when I played the Brahms D minor [piano concerto] for the first time with orchestra about a year and a half ago,” she says. “It was memorable not only because I love that piece so much, but because I played it with the Yale Philharmonia as winner of my school’s concerto competition. Therefore, I was playing with a stage full of all my friends and colleagues, and that in itself is an incredible feeling.”

Caroline

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 11:43:00 -0400

Caroline:

Caroline Shaw ‘07MM is different in many ways from previous Pulitzer Prize winners, but it is the sense of enjoyment in being a part of something bigger than oneself that, in my humble opinion, makes her stand out.

He Soars In Sor's Footsteps | New Haven Independent

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 14:40:52 -0400

He Soars In Sor's Footsteps | New Haven Independent:

Ruiz, a 25-year-old Puerto Rican native currently stationed at the Yale School of Music, plans to display, and discuss, his encounters with Latin American and Spanish musical tradition at the Saturday performance at Fair Haven’s Bregamos Theater (which you enter on Blatchley Avenue between State and Peck Streets). The free performance starts at 3 p.m. It is sponsored by a local not-for-profit Latino youth organization called Pequeñas Ligas Hispanas de New Haven. (Call 203-787-3848 for event details.)

Remembering Gustav Meier's 41 seasons

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:11:24 -0400

Remembering Gustav Meier's 41 seasons:

A love of teaching also led him to conducting programs at some of America’s most prestigious music schools and conservatories: Yale University, the University of Michigan, Eastman School of Music in Rochester and Tanglewood…

It was the Yale job that led Meier to Bridgeport in 1972.

Yale in New York Performs String Music from Three Centuries - Feast of Music

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:20:44 -0400

Yale in New York Performs String Music from Three Centuries - Feast of Music:

Despite being only two hours away on the Metro-North Railroad, theYale School of Music is often glossed over by its Manhattan-based brethren when it comes to recognizing the best music programs of the Metro NYC area. Thankfully, the Yale in New York series strives to rectify that problem, importing the finest of the school’s students, faculty, and alumni to Carnegie Hall’s Zankel Hall four times per season.

The Sounds of Silence

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 12:55:45 -0400

The Sounds of Silence:

In the latest installment of the Cliburn at the Modern series, the Zen works of composer Christopher Theofanidis inhabit a mystical space between sound and silence.

Yale in New York Presents SERENADE & METAMORPHOSIS at Carnegie Hall Tonight

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 11:00:52 -0400

Yale in New York Presents SERENADE & METAMORPHOSIS at Carnegie Hall Tonight:

The Yale School of Music’s acclaimed YALE IN NEW YORK series presents “SERENADE & METAMORPHOSIS,” the third of four evenings in its 2012-2013 season, tonight, April 12, 2013 at 7:30PM in Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall.

Yale in New York surveys some of the important contributions to the canon of string serenades and works for similar string ensembles…. This program pairs Richard Strauss’s profound Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings with a world premiere Yale commission by Yale School of Music graduate Matthew Barnson, entitled The Rule and Exercises of Holy Dying (Memento Mori after Gerhard Richter), scored for the same instrumentation as the Strauss. The balance of the program celebrates Tchaikovsky’s popular 1880 Serenade for Strings.

Yes! yaleuniversity: It is spring time - finally - in New...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:29:31 -0400

Yes!

yaleuniversity:

It is spring time - finally - in New Haven.

Photos: Michael Marsland.

Tune In To The Color Of Baritone Soul

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:26:07 -0400

Tune In To The Color Of Baritone Soul:

For the 30th time, one of New Haven’s musical events of the year will bring a flood of cellos onstage—amid a swirl of color. The occasion is the annual Yale Cellos concert at Sprague Hall (470 College St.), which takes place Wednesday at 8 p.m. It’s an exceptional event for two reasons.

We’re already sold out for the Yale Cellos’...

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:03:25 -0400

We’re already sold out for the Yale Cellos’ 30th-anniversary concert tomorrow.

Yale composer's exotic works get airing at Modern's Cliburn series

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 10:48:00 -0400

Yale composer's exotic works get airing at Modern's Cliburn series:

The most unusual music heard in this city each season emanates from the Cliburn at the Modern series at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The series’ season ended on Saturday afternoon and, as usual, there was music that virtually no one in the audience had heard before.

The featured composer this time was Christopher Theofanidis, a native Texan now on the faculty at Yale. He was present to speak about, as well as listen to, his music. This aspect of the series is one of its most entertaining attributes…

The Yale Cellos take a well-deserved bow in Sprague Hall

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:47:00 -0400

The Yale Cellos take a well-deserved bow in Sprague Hall:

NEW HAVEN — If his students reflected the personality of their master professor, Aldo Parisot’s Yale cellists would be irreverent, charming, demanding and outrageously skilled.

The latter is a given. As they prepare for the milestone 30th anniversary Yale Cellos Concert, Wednesday at 8 p.m. at Sprague Hall, Parisot took a few minutes between rehearsals and nursing his aching back, to talk about that milestone.