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YSM Alum Wins Pulitzer

by David Brensilver | Apr 17, 2012 12:06 pm | Comments (0)

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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YCBA Partners With Google

by David Brensilver | Apr 11, 2012 9:53 am | Comments (1)

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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Long Wharf Gets $224K Education Grant

by David Brensilver | Apr 10, 2012 1:40 pm | Comments (0)

Long Wharf Theatre Photo 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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NMS Completes “Performathon”

by David Brensilver | Apr 4, 2012 1:58 pm | Comments (0)

NMS Photo 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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Festival Offers Seasonal Opportunities

by David Brensilver | Apr 3, 2012 11:54 am | Comments (0)

IFAI Photo 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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N.H. Museum Appoints New Director

by David Brensilver | Mar 27, 2012 12:20 pm | Comments (0)

New Haven Museum Photo 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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Academy Honors Composers

by David Brensilver | Mar 22, 2012 5:17 pm | Comments (0)

Bob Handelman Photo 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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Engineering Students Design Practice Carillon

by David Brensilver | Mar 21, 2012 2:45 pm | Comments (0)

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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YCBA Director Appointed To 3rd Term

by David Brensilver | Mar 14, 2012 2:17 pm | Comments (0)

Michael Marsland Photo 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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DeLauro Recognizes Young Audiences Week

by David Brensilver | Mar 13, 2012 12:43 pm | Comments (0)

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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