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David Brensilver
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May 14, 2012 11:50 am
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For the second consecutive year, Music Haven has been named a National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards finalist. A dozen organizations will be selected from a group of 50 finalists to “receive a $10,000 grant and the opportunity to visit the White House and accept the award from First Lady Michelle Obama,” according to the National Arts and Humanities Youth Program Awards website, which indicates that “awardees also receive a full year of capacity-building and communications support, designed to make their organizations stronger.”
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David Brensilver
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May 9, 2012 10:26 am
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Long Wharf Theatre announced on Monday that it had received a $10,000 award from the National Corporate Theatre Fund for the creation of “a striking video created by Long Wharf Theatre’s education (department) illustrating the importance of arts education,” according to a press release. The release explained that “NCTF’s member theaters” — of which Long Wharf is one — “were challenged to submit a video outlining why theater and arts education is critical for student success, taking arts education out of abstract terms and personalizing the impact. … Long Wharf Theatre’s entry was selected from a field of seven finalists.”
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David Brensilver
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May 4, 2012 11:07 am
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Left to right: Theatre 4 stage manager Sarah Iannarone, Mariah Sage, director Maryna Harrison, Jane Tamarkin, and Rebecka Jones (seated)
Theatre 4’s world-premiere production of George Brant’s Salvage, which runs through Sunday at The Gallery at UpCrown Studios, will be staged as part of the New York International Fringe Festival in August.
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David Brensilver
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May 3, 2012 1:02 pm
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Music Haven Executive Director Tina Lee Hadari with a student
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced $77.17 million in arts grants. Among the recipients of the NEA’s “Art Works” grant-funding program are Music Haven and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, each of which has been awarded $25,000. For Music Haven, according to the NEA’s website, the funding will “support a free, year-long, after-school music residency of the Haven String Quartet. Program components include twice-weekly instrumental music lessons, bi-monthly workshops, and mentoring from college students studying music.”
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David Brensilver
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Apr 26, 2012 11:03 am
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Robert Matthews and Janky Patel
Students at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale University School of Art collaborated recently on a project that yielded an exhibition of posters designed “to educate and motivate broad sectors of society about some of today’s pressing health issues,” according to a Yale University news release. While the posters are no longer on display at the School of Art, they are viewable in a slideshow format on the School of Public Health website.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 25, 2012 1:27 pm
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Playwright Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas, which was debuted in 2008 at Long Wharf Theatre, is scheduled to receive its New York premiere later this year.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 19, 2012 10:46 am
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The 2011 Run for the Music
Amy Etra Photo
Last year, the New Haven Symphony Orchestra organized a “Run for the Music” to help fund its “education and community engagement programs,” as the New Haven Independent reported. The 5K fund-raising event in East Rock Park was conceived by the organization’s sponsorship and promotions director — and longtime jogger — Elizabeth Meyer-Gadon.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 17, 2012 11:06 am
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Composer Kevin Puts, who earned a master of music degree in 1996 from the Yale School of Music, has won a Pulitzer Prize for his opera Silent Night, which was “commissioned and premiered by the Minnesota Opera in Minneapolis on November 12, 2011,” according to a press release issued on Monday by Columbia University, which administers the prestigious awards.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 11, 2012 8:53 am
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In May 2011, the Yale Center for British Art launched an online catalogue that gives “visitors to the museum’s redesigned and expanded website … the ability to search across the center’s entire collection of paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, rare books, manuscripts, and works in the reference library,” as Christine Saari reported for the New Haven Independent.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 10, 2012 12:40 pm
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Joshua Borenstein
Long Wharf Theatre will use a $224,500 grant from the Werth Family Foundation “to fund the development of a substantially expanded in-school residency program” over the next four years, the organization has announced.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 4, 2012 12:58 pm
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NMS students perform at The Space
For the 16th consecutive year, Neighborhood Music School held a fundraising “Performathon,” proceeds from which will go into the organization’s financial-aid coffers. While the event took place March 29 through April 1, Alice-Anne Harwood, the school’s development director, said donations will be collected through April 16.
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David Brensilver
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Apr 3, 2012 10:54 am
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2011 festival interns
Staffers from the International Festival of Arts & Ideas are inviting potential employees, sponsors, and vendors to an April 9 meeting to discuss what the organization’s website describes as a “wide range of involvement opportunities.”
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David Brensilver
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Mar 27, 2012 11:20 am
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Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky
The New Haven Museum has named Margaret Anne Tockarshewsky its new executive director. Tockarshewsky began working in that capacity on February 1, according to a press release issued by the organization.
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David Brensilver
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Mar 22, 2012 4:17 pm
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Christopher Theofanidis
Composer and Yale School of Music faculty member Christopher Theofanidis has been named the winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ 2012 Wladimir and Rhoda Lakond Award, a $10,000 prize “given to a promising mid-career composer,” according to an announcement by the academy.
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David Brensilver
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Mar 21, 2012 1:45 pm
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Joey Brink, who graduated from the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science in 2011, recently used what he learned in college to make his pursuit of a lifelong hobby a little bit easier. Brink is a carillonneur — that is, one who plays the carillon.
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David Brensilver
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Mar 14, 2012 1:17 pm
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Amy Meyers
Amy Meyers’ directorship of the Yale Center for British Art will continue through 2017. Yale University announced last week that Meyers “has been reappointed to a third, five-year term … effective July 1, 2012.”
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David Brensilver
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Mar 13, 2012 11:43 am
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Rep. Rosa DeLauro
A resolution introduced last week in the U.S. House of Representatives “(expresses) support for designation of the week of March 12, 2012, through March 16, 2012, as National Young Audiences Week.”
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David Brensilver
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Mar 7, 2012 1:30 pm
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Master printer James Reed with artist Ann Chernow.
The West Haven Council on the Arts wants to know how a proposed arts center in the neighborhood could best serve area artists. The organization is scheduled to host a forum on Friday March 9, through which it hopes to receive such feedback. The event is being billed as a “cultural happy hour” at which master printer James Reed, who operates the Bridgeport-based Milestone Graphics printing studio, will speak.
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David Brensilver
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Mar 1, 2012 2:30 pm
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In 2010, Miya, a patient at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital, creates art, even while receiving treatment
The Child Life Arts & Enrichment Program at Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital has been renamed Arts for Healing, according to the program’s February newsletter.
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David Brensilver
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Feb 23, 2012 12:12 pm
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Ryan Johnstone, a trombonist who earned a master of music degree from the Yale School of Music in 2005, has been named the Texas Music Educators Association’s Phi Beta Mu Young Bandmaster of the Year. Johnstone is the band director at Aledo Middle School in Texas.
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David Brensilver
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Feb 16, 2012 2:34 pm
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Four Yale School of Music pianists will perform later this month at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, D.C., as part of the organization’s Conservatory Project.
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David Brensilver
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Feb 15, 2012 3:20 pm
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The New Haven Free Public Library is accepting submissions for its annual poetry competition, the theme of which, this year, is “New Haven + reading legacies.” The submission deadline is March 1. Winners will receive $100 cash awards at an April 1 event at the library and have their poems published in the New Haven Review.
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David Brensilver
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Feb 9, 2012 3:03 pm
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Laura Adam.
Student musicians from Daniel Hand High School in Madison and Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven will share the Woolsey Hall stage on April 12 for a performance of Yale School of Music composer Christopher Theofanidis’ Rainbow Body, thanks to a partnership between the New Haven Symphony Orchestra and Webster Bank called the Webster Bank Music Exchange Program.
