Yale Bulletin
and Calendar

May 17-31, 1999Volume 27, Number 32


M U S I C

In addition to the following events, Yale will also be the site of a number of concerts offered as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.


Norfolk Chamber Music Festival
Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT (on Rte. 272, just south of Rte. 44)
Date: July 1­Aug. 21

Performances: Main events at 8 p.m.; Young Artist Recitals are offered Thursday evenings at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday mornings at 10:30 a.m

Tickets: $10­$36; $5 for young adults ages 18­25; free for chil- dren under age 18. (Members of the Yale community receive 50 percent off full-price tickets.) Admission to Young Artist Recitals is by donation.

Info., tickets and season brochures: (860) 542-3000; send e-mail to norfolk@yale.edu. or visit the website at www.yale.edu/norfolk

More than 30 concerts and recitals will take place during the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music's 59th year as a University program.

Featured performers include the New York Woodwind Quintet, Speculum Musicae, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Vermeer Quartet, jazz singer-pianist Valerie Capers and numerous Yale School of Music faculty members. Swing dancers Brian Gillie and Susan Olenwine will appear as part of a special event titled "Duke Ellington's Swingin' Centennial."

Other special events include an all-Beethoven weekend, "A Night at the Opera" and "Baroque Night." "Carnival of the Animals" offers children and their families a special concert experience followed by a petting zoo with live animals.

Concert-goers are invited to stroll the grounds of the 70-acre estate, visit its art gallery, picnic on the lawns and listen to music from the gazebo prior to performances.


Summer Carillon Concerts
Old Campus (between High and College, Chapel and Elm streets)
Dates: Friday evenings July 2­Aug. 20
Time: 7 p.m.
Admission is free
Info.: 432-2309

Concert-goers are invited to bring a picnic dinner and lawn chairs to hear guest artists from North America and Europe play the 54-bell carillon in Harkness Tower. In case of rain, an indoor listening space will be provided. Guest artists will include Daniel Kehoe of Trinity College in West Hartford, Connecticut, on July 9; George Matthew of Middlebury College in Vermont on July 30; and Todd Fair of the Netherlands Carillon School in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, on Aug. 20. The names of other guest artists and the dates they will perform will be announced in future issues of the Yale Bulletin & Calendar.


Yale Summer Chorus
Info.: 777-2014

The Yale Summer Chorus is open to all members of the University community without audition.

The chorus will be directed by Ellen Espenschied '97, who will graduate this month from the School of Music and Institute of Sacred Music. The chorus will perform in a concert on Wednesday, Aug. 4, at 8 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. The program will feature Randall Thompson's "The Peaceable Kingdom," Leonard Bernstein's "Chichester Psalms," C.H.H. Perry's "I Was Glad" and Edward Elgar's "Great is the Lord."

The chorus' Þrst rehearsal is on Wednesday, June 30. Rehearsals will be held 7­9 p.m. on Mondays and Wednesdays. There is a $10 registration fee for chorus members.


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T H I SW E E K ' SS T O R I E S

Commencement, 1999 Style
Facility to enhance strength in environmental sciences
Guide again taps Yale as a 'must-see' attraction
'Under My (Green) Thumb': Rolling Stones sideman talks about life . . .
Summertime at Yale
Endowed Professorships
City-Wide Open Studios celebrates work of Yale and area artists
A Conversation About Welfare and the Media
Eleven honored for strengthening town-gown ties
Special award, Jovin Fund commemorate student's good works
From design to construction, program gives architecture students . . .
Graduate students cited for excellence in teaching
1999 Commencement Information
Beinecke exhibition celebrates the art of collecting books
New line of Yale ties and scarves combine architectural elements . . .
Studio classes again to highlight annual festival of arts and ideas
Project X Update
Leffell to speak about surgery for skin cancer
Kaplan honored for his work with children
Guide shows motorists where to park downtown


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A musician tries to attract the attention of ducks at Yale's Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, home of the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival.