Daniel S. Godfrey, professor of composition in VPA’s Setnor School of Music, was one of two conductors in a concert by the Yale Russian Chorus Alumni at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Litchfield, Conn. Included on the program were Russian Orthodox liturgical repertoire and Russian folk songs, with settings and arrangements by Arkhangelsky, Bortniansky, Grechaninov, Mickiewiscz, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsokov. Godfrey’s conducting of the concert finale brought a packed house of 800-plus to its feet.
Syracuse Stage announced an exciting new cast and creative team for “The Hello Girls,” with music and lyrics by Peter Mills and book by Peter Mills and Cara Reichel. Featuring fresh orchestrations, new staging and reworked material, this new production…
The Department of English in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) is embracing innovative approaches to media engagement. One such method is called videographic criticism, a growing scholarly practice that uses sound and moving images (video) to explore and…
From “yeet” to “social distancing,” new words and phrases constantly emerge and evolve in American English. But how do these neologisms—newly coined terms—gain acceptance and become part of mainstream dialect? We interviewed Christopher Green, associate professor of linguistics in the…
The University Art Museum has received a monumental gift of more than 80 traditional Indian patachitra scrolls, significantly expanding its collection of South Asian art and material culture. The scrolls were donated by Geraldine Forbes, Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita at…
In a prestigious international honor, a project by three students from the School of Architecture has been selected for inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025, currently on view in London. The work, titled “Evolving an Urban Ecology,” was…
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