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Yale School Of Music
The Yale School of Music (often abbreviated to YSM) is one of the 12 professional schools at Yale University. It offers three graduate degrees: Master of Music (MM), Master of Musical Arts (MMA), and Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA), as well as a joint Bachelor of Arts—Master of Music program in conjunction with Yale College, a Certificate in Performance, and an artist diploma. Yale is the only Ivy League school with a separate school of music; the university also has a separate Department of Music in the Division of Humanities of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The School of Music originated in 1855 with a gift of $5,000 from Joseph Battell and conferred its first degrees in 1894; it has a separate endowment, and as a result of a 2005 gift waives tuition and gives students maintenance grants. José García-León, formerly dean of academic affairs and assessment at Juilliard, succeeded Robert Blocker as dean of the Yale School of Music in fall 2023. Buildings * Albert A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the last two being outer garments), originating in Europe. The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full achievement (heraldry), heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest (heraldry), crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to the armiger (e.g. an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation). The term "coat of arms" itself, describing in modern times just the heraldic design, originates from the description of the entire medieval chainmail "surcoat" garment used in combat or preparation for the latter. Roll of arms, Rolls of arms are collections of many coats of arms, and since the early Modern Age centuries, they have been a source of information for public showing and tracing the membership of a nobility, noble family, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Yale University Collection Of Musical Instruments
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Yale was established as the Collegiate School in 1701 by Congregationalist clergy of the Connecticut Colony. Originally restricted to instructing ministers in theology and sacred languages, the school's curriculum expanded, incorporating humanities and sciences by the time of the American Revolution. In the 19th century, the college expanded into graduate and professional instruction, awarding the first PhD in the United States in 1861 and organizing as a university in 1887. Yale's faculty and student populations grew rapidly after 1890 due to the expansion of the physical campus and its scientific research programs. Yale is organized into fifteen constituent schools, including the original ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Perry Lafferty
Perry Francis Lafferty (October 3, 1917 – August 25, 2005) was an American television producer and network television executive who produced several television programs, including the CBS programs ''All in the Family'', '' M*A*S*H'', '' Maude'' and ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show''. With NBC, he produced the 1985 television movie '' An Early Frost'', one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV/AIDS. Early years Lafferty was born in Davenport, Iowa on October 3, 1917. He graduated from Davenport Central High School in 1935 and was inducted into the school's Hall of Honor in 2009.Wundram, Bill"3 selected for Central High School Hall of Honor" '' Quad-City Times'', March 16, 2009. Accessed April 23, 2009. He graduated from the Yale School of Music and was trained in piano. When he was 12 years old, Lafferty began playing piano on Saturdays on radio station WKBF in rock Island, Illinois. During World War II, Lafferty served in the U.S. Army Air Force. Care ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Henry-Louis De La Grange
Henry-Louis de La Grange (26 May 1924 – 27 January 2017) was a French musicologist and biographer of Gustav Mahler. Life and career La Grange was born in Paris, of an American mother (Emily Sloane, daughter of Henry T. Sloane) and a French father, , who was a senator, one-time government minister, and vice-president of the International Aviation Federation. Henry-Louis studied the humanities in Paris and New York and literature at Aix-en-Provence University and at the Sorbonne. From 1946 to 1947 he studied at the Yale University School of Music and subsequently, from 1948 until 1953, privately in Paris – piano under Yvonne Lefébure and harmony, counterpoint, and analysis under Nadia Boulanger. La Grange began working as a music critic in 1952, writing articles for the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and ''The New York Times'', and the magazines ''Opera News'', '' Saturday Review'', ''Musical America'', and ''Opus'' in the United States, and ''Arts'', ''Disques'', ''La R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Paul Jacobs (organist)
Paul Jacobs (born 1977) is an American organist. He is the first organist to receive a Grammy Award. Jacobs is currently the chair of the Juilliard School's organ department and is considered "America’s premier organ performer…." Biography Paul Jacobs began piano lessons at age five and organ lessons at age 12 in his hometown of Washington, Pennsylvania. At age 15 he was appointed head organist of Immaculate Conception Church, a parish of over 3,500 families. Jacobs then attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, double-majoring in organ (studying with John Weaver) and harpsichord (with Lionel Party), while serving as organist at the Washington Memorial Chapel in Valley Forge National Historical Park. During his final semester as an undergraduate student, he performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach several times, including once in an 18-hour non-stop marathon concert in Pittsburgh on the 250th anniversary of the composer's death (July 28, 2000). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Queen Elisabeth Competition
The Queen Elisabeth Competition (, ) is an international competition for career-starting musicians held in City of Brussels, Brussels. The competition is named after Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of Belgium, Queen Elisabeth of Belgium (1876–1965). It is a competition for Classical music, classical violinists (since 1937), pianists (since 1938), singers (since 1988) and cellists (since 2017). It also used to hold international competitions for composers from 1953 to 2012. The Patron is Queen Mathilde of Belgium. Since its foundation it has been considered one of the most challenging and prestigious competitions for instrumentalists. In 1957 the Queen Elisabeth Competition was one of the founding members of the World Federation of International Music Competitions. History Eugène Ysaÿe, Belgian concert violinist, wanted to set up an international music competition for young virtuosi showcasing their all-round skill, but died before he could do so. Queen Elisabeth, patroness of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
University Of British Columbia
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a Public university, public research university with campuses near University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada. With an annual research budget of $893million, UBC funds 9,992 projects annually in various fields of study within the industrial sector, as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. The Vancouver campus is situated on the University of British Columbia Vancouver, Point Grey campus lands, an unincorporated area next to the City of Vancouver and the University Endowment Lands.Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act (No. 3)', S.B.C. 2001, c. 44. The university is located west of Downtown Vancouver. UBC is also home to TRIUMF, Canada's national Particle physics, particle and nuclear physics laboratory, which boasts the world's largest cyclotron. In addition to the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the Stuart B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Manhattan School Of Music
The Manhattan School of Music (MSM) is a private music conservatory A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department (of a larger i ... in New York City. The school offers Bachelor's degree, bachelor's, Master's degree, master's, and doctoral Academic degree, degrees in the areas of Classical music, classical performance, jazz performance, Contemporary classical music, contemporary performance, Musical composition, composition, and conducting, as well as a bachelor's in musical theatre. Founded in 1917, the school is located on Claremont Avenue in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of New York City, adjacent to Broadway (Manhattan), Broadway and 122nd Street (Manhattan), West 122nd Street (Seminary Row). The MSM campus was originally the home to The Institute of Musical Art (which later became J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
David Fung
David Fung (born 1983) is a concert pianist. Fung was born in Sydney, Australia. Early life and education Fung attended James Ruse Agricultural High School in Sydney, where he received the James Ruse Medal for Dux and the Medal for Music. He graduated with a Universities Admission Index of 100 and earned a scholarship to study the M.B.B.S. at the University of New South Wales. Following two years of medical school, Fung left to pursue an education and training in music. Musical education and training In 2002, Fung won the ABC Symphony Australia Young Performers Awards, after four rounds of competition which culminated in his performance of Rachmaninoff's ''Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'' with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra during the concerto finals at the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. He has subsequently appeared with the major orchestras of Australia and recorded a CD with the ABC Classics label. Deciding to pursue a career in music, Fung transferred in 2003 to the Colbu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto
Juan Carlos Fernández-Nieto (born January 26, 1987) is a Spanish-American pianist. He was described by Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung as "A musical sculptor who chisels out melodic lines with sharp contours". and "He set off a firework on the 88 piano keys which excited the audience in the Kulturzentrum right from the start" Early life and education Fernández-Nieto was born in Salamanca, Spain, the eldest of three children. Due to his father's job, the family moved often. Days after his birth, they relocated to Figueras. There here spent his first years of life and his first language was Catalan. After his family moved to Valladolid, he started to show interest in music. He began studying piano and violin at the age of four, and gave his first concert at seven. At the age of 11 Fernández-Nieto started to take classes with Julia Díaz-Yanes, and in 2003 began studying under Claudio Martínez Mehner at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Castilla y León in Salamanca. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Dominick DiOrio
Dominick DiOrio (born 1984) is an American composer and conductor. He is Professor of Music (Choral Conducting) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and serves as the conductor of NOTUS, the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, the fourth person since its founding in 1980. He is currently the artistic director of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia. Career DiOrio earned his BM in composition from Ithaca College and his MM and DMA in conducting from the Yale School of Music. His dissertation research on Krzysztof Penderecki’s '' St. Luke Passion'' was published in the Choral Scholar. DiOrio has made notable contributions to choral music in the United States as an educator, a conductor, and a composer. Educator From 2009 to 2012, DiOrio served as the director of choral activities at Lone Star College-Montgomery. In 2012, he was appointed to the faculty at Indiana University. In 2014, Indiana University awarded DiOrio the Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. Conduc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Robert Dick (flutist)
Robert Dick (born January 4, 1950) is a flutist, composer, teacher, inventor, and author. His musical style is a mix of classical, world music, electronic and jazz. 2014, the National Flute Association awarded Dick its Lifetime Achievement Award. The ''New York Times'' said his “technical resources and imagination seem limitless" while ''JazzTimes'' called him “revolutionary.” Dick invented the "glissando headjoint" a custom flute modification allowing the player to achieve effects similar to the whammy bar of an electric guitar. Early life and history Robert Dick was born and raised in New York City. He began playing the flute in the fourth grade, after hearing the piccolo on the radio in the Top 40 hit “Rockin’ Robin". His primary teachers were Henry Zlotnik, James Pappoutsakis, Julius Baker and Thomas Nyfenger. As a teenager, Dick wanted to become an orchestral flutist, and played first flute in the Senior Orchestra at the High School of Music and Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
