Author Archives: Sarah Swong

Culture

A^2 to remix a capella
By Sarah Swong April 24, 2013 • 0
A group of musicians plans to reinvent live a cappella performance with the help of sound manipulation software.
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Culture

‘Orlando’ highlights role of Greek chorus
By Sarah Swong April 17, 2013 • 0
"Orlando" explores questions of professional, gender and romantic identity through the story of a man who turns into a woman during a life that spans five centuries.
Painter Odili Donald Odita discussed how color can express different racial identities at an Ezra Stiles Master’s Tea on Tuesday.
Culture

Expressing the human condition through color
By Sarah Swong April 10, 2013 • 0
Contrary to his appearance, an artist dressed in a monochromatic scheme of dark blue denim spoke about the expressive range of color at an Ezra Stiles Master’s Tea on Tuesday.
“Abyss” seeks to enliven the audience’s experience of classical music through story- telling, dance, acting and circus performance.
Culture

In ‘Abyss,’ an ‘Odyssey’ of sight and sound
By Anya Grenier and Sarah Swong March 27, 2013 • 0
A new show this weekend asks audiences to imagine the end of the world as part of a journey through classical music.
Culture

Organ recital highlights Yale’s strength
By Sarah Swong March 7, 2013 • 0
On Friday, Michael Salazar MUS ’13 will perform his degree recital on one of the world’s finest organs — the Newberry Memorial Organ in Woolsey Hall.
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Culture

Undergrad opera breaks new ground with ‘Castor et Pollux’
By Anya Grenier and Sarah Swong February 20, 2013 • 0
Nearly 70 Yale College students will come together this week to resurrect a show last performed in America before most of them were born.
Construction on Hendrie Hall will begin in May 2014. Renovations will include new practice rooms and a student lounge.
University

Hendrie to see 2014 renovation
By Sophie Gould and Sarah Swong February 18, 2013 • 0
Four years after the onset of the recession prompted Yale to halt plans for the renovation of Hendrie Hall, administrators said they hope construction will begin in May 2014.
Culture

Yale Opera takes on bel canto
By Anya Grenier and Sarah Swong February 13, 2013 • 0
Yale Opera will perform Vincenzo Bellini’s “I Capuleti e i Montecchi,” its first bel canto opera, this weekend at the Shubert Theater.
Cantata Profana features atypical combinations of instrumentalists and vocalists from the School of Music, Institute of Sacred Music and Yale College.
Culture

Musicians launch large chamber music collective
By Sarah Swong February 1, 2013 • 0
On Saturday night, an unusually large chamber music collective will give its debut performance.
Culture

Tokyo Quartet leaves behind legacy
By Sarah Swong January 23, 2013 • 0
On Tuesday night, the legendary Tokyo String Quartet gave its final New Haven performance after 37 years at the School of Music.
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Culture

Large gift enables Yale Bands’ professional development
By Sarah Swong January 15, 2013 • 0
At the end of last semester, an anonymous donor gave a significant gift to the Yale Bands endowment to encourage undergraduate ensembles to have first-person contact with professional musicians.
Yale Concert Band and Yale Jazz Ensemble perfom a tribute to Cole Porter and Glenn Miller at Woolsey Hall in 2010.
Culture

Students aim to develop jazz culture
By Sarah Swong December 6, 2012 • 0
Late on Saturday night, computer science professor and Saybrook College Master Paul Hudak, New Haven bassist Jeff Fuller and Harvey Xia ’16 came together as jazz musicians.