Evan Johnson
EVAN JOHNSON
Soloists and chorus shine at YSO concert Saturday

The Yale Symphony Orchestra, led by Shinik Hahm, and a stage packed with choristers rattled the ceiling of Woolsey Hall Saturday night. The YSO’s rendition […]

February 11, 2002

EVAN JOHNSON
New student ensemble for 20th century music shines

Although it’s easy not to notice, Yale College has many performance groups for classical music; the Yale Symphony Orchestra and the Bach Society Orchestra are […]

December 12, 2001

EVAN JOHNSON
YSO opens season with mixed success

The Yale Symphony Orchestra, led by Shinik Hahm, performed their first concert of the season Saturday night. The result was a questionable assembly of the […]

November 12, 2001

EVAN JOHNSON
Yale composers perform new orchestral works

The Yale School of Music’s “New Music New Haven” concert series opened its season Thursday night in Woolsey Hall with a safe and predictable program. […]

October 26, 2001

EVAN JOHNSON
‘Faust’ condemned to mediocre opera

Music that is often less than profound, an orchestra that sounded too small for its role, even an unwell leading man — for all these […]

April 9, 2001

EVAN JOHNSON
YSO delivers powerful performance

Is Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem liturgical music or grand opera? By 1873, when the agnostic composer of larger-than-life music dramas completed his tribute to the memory […]

March 26, 2001