Yale Bulletin and Calendar

August 30-September 6, 1999

Volume 28, Number 2

Concert celebrates new year at the School of Music

Once again the School of Music will open the new academic year on a musical note when it holds its traditional Convocation and Concert at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 2, in Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall, corner of Wall and College streets.

Although the festivities are designed to introduce the Yale community to the school's new students and faculty, they are also open to the public free of charge.

The performers will include noted faculty artists Claude Frank on piano, David Shifrin on clarinet and Jesse Levine on viola, as well as many of the school's outstanding young performers.

The program includes "Velocities" for marimba solo by Joseph Schwantner, who will serve as professor of composition at Yale this year.

Other featured works on the program will be Mozart's Rondo in A minor, Schubert's "The Shepherd on the Rock" for soprano, clarinet and piano, and the first movement of Dvorak's Piano Quartet in E-flat.

During the program, Music School Dean Robert Blocker will present the first Gustav Stoeckel Award to Professor Emeritus Richard F. French.

French, who will present an address at the convocation, served on the School of Music faculty from 1973 to 1985. He continued to serve on various committees after his retirement, and is returning to the School of Music this year to teach a course on Mozart's operas.

During the convocation, Blocker will also present the school's Cultural Leadership Citation to Denise and Stephen Adams.

For further information about the event, call 432-4158.

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