by | Mar 1, 2011 4:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Tom Hanks
Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks has accepted an invitation from Yale College seniors to speak during this year’s Class Day ceremonies, according to Yale University Press Secretary Thomas Conroy.
by | Feb 24, 2011 2:16 pm | Comments (0)
Hillhouse Opera Company plans to produce four 10-minute operas by young people suffering from mental illness. With space reserved at the Yale Medical School for May 6 performances, the company has launched an online campaign to raise $5,000 toward the project’s $20,000 estimated budget.
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by | Feb 23, 2011 8:43 am | Comments (0)
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Hannah Lash
The American Academy of Arts and Letters has bestowed awards on four Yale School of Music composers. Dan Visconti and Jay Wadley each received a $15,000 Charles Ives Fellowship, while Christopher Cerrone and Hannah Lash, along with four other composers, received Charles Ives Scholarships in the amount of $7,500. A panel of Academy members chaired by Yale School of Music composition professor Ezra Laderman awarded 15 composers a total of $165,000.
by | Feb 17, 2011 1:45 pm | Comments (1)
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Local playwright Aaron Jafferis’ Stuck Elevator, a recent project of the Yale Institute for Music Theatre that received a workshop reading at the 2010 International Festival of Arts & Ideas, has been accepted to the 2011 Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.
“The artists and plays selected this season are among the most dynamic, diverse and innovative that Sundance Institute has supported in its 30-year history,” Philip Himberg, producing artistic director of the Institute’s Theatre Program, said in a press release.
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by | Feb 16, 2011 12:25 pm | Comments (0)
In a season of state budget misery, New Haven got a first look Wednesday morning at the governor’s proposed new spending plan — and seemed to find a bounty of good news for both city government and local arts groups.
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by | Feb 14, 2011 3:07 pm | Comments (0)
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Natalie Forbes, who’s served as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra’s executive director for six years, will step down on May 31, the organization announced today.
“I want to explore some other career options,” Forbes said Monday.
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by | Feb 10, 2011 4:11 pm | Comments (0)
Local artists have until Monday to express their interest in working with Brooklyn-based painter James Esber on a novel community project.
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by | Feb 8, 2011 2:58 pm | Comments (0)
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James Bundy will remain dean of the Yale School of Drama and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre through at least 2017. Bundy, a Yale School of Drama graduate whose current tenure began in 2002, was appointed by Yale University President Richard Levin to a third consecutive five-year term, which is scheduled to begin on July 1, 2012.
by | Feb 7, 2011 7:32 am | Comments (11)
State Sen. Paul Doyle, D-Wethersfield.
State Sen. Paul Doyle, D‑Wethersfield, has introduced legislation that would undo a longstanding requirement that state-funded building projects include an allocation for artwork.
by | Feb 2, 2011 5:13 am | Comments (9)
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Performances of Baroque-era music typically feature works by composers whose names are familiar even to first-time concertgoers. Orchestra New England‘s upcoming BaroqueFest 2011 concert program would be no different were the name Shafner not included alongside those of Bach, Telemann, and Vivaldi.
While those composers have been gone for more than two centuries, Noah Shafner hasn’t yet reached his teenage years. Still, the 10-year-old composer’s music has been described as “brilliant.”
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