by | Aug 31, 2012 2:47 pm | Comments (0)
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Michael Horyczun
Fairfield University last week named as its new media-relations director Michael Horyczun, who brings to the role a background in journalism and experience in arts marketing.
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by | Aug 23, 2012 11:15 am | Comments (0)
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Ellen Battell and Carl Stoeckel
The Financial Times’ Harry Eyers has lauded the Yale Summer School of Music-Norfolk Chamber Music Festival for its staying power. In an Aug. 17 column in which he reflected on “ways of making a cultural legacy last,” Eyers cited the festival and the BBC Proms as examples of doing just that.
by | Aug 16, 2012 11:43 am | Comments (0)
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Murray Krugman
A student-run record label at the University of New Haven seems poised to become an invaluable resource for aspiring record producers and local musicians hoping to introduce themselves to wider audiences.
by | Aug 9, 2012 1:04 pm | Comments (0)
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Robert Stern, dean, Yale School of Architecture
The Yale School of Architecture will have a significant presence at the Venice Biennale’s 13th Annual Architecture Exhibition, which opens on Aug. 29 and continues through Nov. 25 in Venice.
by | Aug 7, 2012 10:56 am | Comments (0)
NHSO Photo
Laura Adam
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra has announced that it will partner with the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra and Alexion Pharmaceuticals to deliver a new, music-based curriculum, the “Alexion Toolkit for Interdisciplinary Learning,” to “25 schools served by the NHSO and WSO,” according to an NHSO press release.
by | Aug 2, 2012 1:53 pm | Comments (0)
An iPad painting by Raheem Nelson
New Haven resident Raheem Nelson, who graduated in 2007 from New York’s School of Visual Arts, will release his second book, Through the Elm to the Big Apple, tomorrow. The book, like his first, a comics collection called Little Robots (Vol. 1), features paintings created on an iPad.
by | Jul 25, 2012 3:37 pm | Comments (0)
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven has announced that its ANDI application is now available for the Android platform. The organization launched the ANDI iPhone application last year.
by | Jul 24, 2012 3:48 pm | Comments (0)
Photo by Michael Marsland/Yale University
Mary Miller
Yale University plans to use a $1.95 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to “broaden the scope of humanities teaching, learning and research,” according to a news release issued by the school on Monday.
by | Jul 23, 2012 3:35 pm | Comments (0)
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Burton Alter
The president of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s Board of Directors has been asked to join the leadership of the League of American Orchestras, whose website describes the organization as “the only national organization dedicated solely to the orchestral experience … (and) a nexus of knowledge and innovation, advocacy, and leadership advancement for managers, musicians, volunteers, and boards.”
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by | Jul 17, 2012 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
Eric Becker, who earned a master’s degree in 2006 from the Yale School of Public Health, is about to release a “video I want everyone in the world to see” — not because he filmed it, but because of what he filmed. Becker’s latest film, Honor the Treaties, is a 14-minute documentary about Seattle-based photojournalist Aaron Huey’s years-long experiences on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.
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by | Jul 13, 2012 1:22 pm | Comments (0)
For the second consecutive year, a New Haven-based spoken-word team, Verbal Slap, plans to compete at the National Poetry Slam, which will take place August 7 – 11 in Charlotte, N.C. As it did last year, the team is counting on donations to defray travel, food, and lodging costs associated with the trip.
by | Jul 12, 2012 11:48 am | Comments (0)
In January, the New Haven Independent reported on what the state Department of Economic and Community Development’s Office of the Arts described in a press release as “changes that will better integrate the state’s arts programs and economic development efforts.”
by | Jul 6, 2012 5:48 pm | Comments (0)
“Untitled (Mikael’s Foot),” 2012, by Sarah Muehlbauer
Graduates of the Yale University School of Art‘s photography program are showing their work at the Ana Tzarev Gallery in New York. “Group Portrait,‘“the 2012 Yale MFA Photography Thesis Show is on view through July 21, according to a Yale University news release, which indicates that “an informal discussion with the artists and art critic Rick Moody will take place at the gallery on July 12.”
by | Jun 28, 2012 5:12 pm | Comments (0)
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Pianist Melvin Chen
Yale College alumnus Melvin Chen has been named deputy dean of the Yale School of Music, according to a Yale University news release, which indicates that he taught at the school “from 2000 to 2005.”
by | Jun 28, 2012 1:33 pm | Comments (0)
David Harlan Photo
New Haven-based architect David Harlan has won the 2012 Alice Washburn House Award, a prize administered by the Connecticut chapter of the American Institute of Architects and Connecticut Magazine. The award, according to the AIA Connecticut website, recognizes “excellence in traditional house design. Focused on style, this awards program is about the thoughtful and delightful adaptation of tradition to address 21st century needs in residential form.”
by | Jun 21, 2012 2:39 pm | Comments (0)
Brittany Patton’s Dali
Brittany Patton, a senior at Joseph A. Foran High School in Milford, has won the Walnut Beach Arts Festival Student Art Contest for her mixed-media work Dali. Patton’s Overall Best in Show award earned her a $200 prize and the opportunity to paint a mural on the “Wall of Art” at the Walnut Beach Association’s annual Walnut Beach Arts Festival on August 5. The art contest, which is in its 14th year, was sponsored by the Milford Pediatric Group.
by | Jun 19, 2012 11:05 am | Comments (0)
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Michael Yeargan
Michael Yeargan, who graduated from the Yale School of Drama in 1972, has been named co-chair of the program’s design department, according to a press release issued by the school on Tuesday. Yeargan, who’s taught and worked at the Yale School of Drama since 1973, will assume his new role alongside Stephen Strawbridge on July 1, succeeding Ming Cho Lee.
by | Jun 13, 2012 3:07 pm | Comments (0)
Native New Havener Ben Allison, a composer and jazz musician who serves as a governor of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences’ New York chapter, weighed in earlier this month at a Capitol Hill hearing on the “Future of Radio.” Allison, who is scheduled to appear in a June 27 performance with poet Robert Pinsky at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, testified on June 6 before a subcommittee of the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
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by | Jun 12, 2012 11:23 am | Comments (0)
Michael Marsland/Yale University Photo
Caleb Madison
Television coverage of this summer’s Olympic Games in London will include a feature about Yale University sophomore Caleb Madison — because of his lexicographical accomplishments, not his athletic prowess. According to a Yale University news release, Madison’s “verbal feats include constructing crossword puzzles for The New York Times and defining new words like ‘bromance’ and ‘facepalm’ for the Oxford English Dictionary.”
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by | Jun 7, 2012 3:59 pm | Comments (0)
Long Wharf Theatre Photo
Kathleen Turner
Kathleen Turner, the Golden Globe-award-winning actress who’s appeared in such celebrated films as Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Prizzi’s Honor, and The Accidental Tourist, will direct and star in Jeffrey Hatcher’s adaptation of Frank Marcus’ The Killing of Sister George at Long Wharf Theatre this fall.
by | Jun 1, 2012 2:49 pm | Comments (0)
Harold Shapiro Photo
William Boughton
William Boughton, who began his tenure as music director of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra five years ago, will remain in that position at least through the 2016 – 2017 season, the organization has announced.
by | May 30, 2012 3:00 pm | Comments (0)
For the second consecutive year, aspiring and ascendant local filmmakers will have an opportunity to create work that could potentially be screened at the celebrated Cannes Film Festival. The catch: participants’ films have to be conceived and created in the course of 48 hours.
by | May 23, 2012 2:30 pm | Comments (0)
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Left to right: Michael Spaziani, Ryan Burns, Candice Edwards, Alan Mann, Bernadetta Cordaro, Elizabeth Kinder, and Christina DiMuro
The Clinton-based Opera Theater of Connecticut has announced the winners of the organization’s biannual Amici Vocal Competition, which was held on May 12. Baritone Michael Spaziani won a $250 first prize in the student division, and tenor Christopher Lucier won a $500 first-place award in the young professionals category.
by | May 22, 2012 11:42 am | Comments (0)
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Gustav Mahler
The New Haven Symphony Orchestra recently realized that it owns the rights to a piece of music that at one time was part of Mahler’s First Symphony.
According to San Francisco Symphony program notes, “The roots of his symphonic movement Blumine … stretch back to 1884, when it (or an earlier version of it) was one of seven movements of incidental music Mahler wrote to accompany … episodes from Der Trompeter von Säckingen … a popular, humorous epic poem by Victor von Scheffel. … Blumine next found a home in the early versions of Mahler’s First Symphony.”
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by | May 17, 2012 8:33 am | Comments (0)
The Connecticut Office of the Arts has announced the recipients of this year’s Artist Fellowship Awards. According to the COA’s website, “Grants in the amounts of $5,000 and $2,500 were awarded in the categories of craft, new media, painting, photography, sculpture/installation and works on paper. The single review criterion was artistic merit.”