Yale Bulletin and Calendar

May 18, 2001Volume 29, Number 30



A partial view of one of the massive bells of the Harkness Tower Carillon. Friday night performances on the carillon are a summer tradition.



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 (see above).


Norfolk Chamber Music Festival

Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate, Norfolk, CT (on Rte. 272, just south of Rte. 44)

Dates: July 6-Aug. 25

Tickets: $12, $20 and $30; $5 for persons aged 8-25; free for children 8 and under

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 will be offered at the picturesque Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate during the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music's 61st season.

This season's highlights include "Viva Vivaldi," which will give listeners the opportunity to hear music that was contemporary when Yale was founded in 1701; a Heifetz Centennial; a Verdi Centennial; "Klezmer Madness!," a celebration of the music of European Jewry; and "Norfolk Ballroom," during which the Music Shed will be converted to an old-fashioned dance hall.

Festival performers include eighth blackbird, the Tokyo String Quartet, the Panocha Quartet, baritone William Warfield, violinists Erik Friedman and Syoko Aki, pianists Joan Panetti, Claude Frank and John O'Conor, oboist Richard Killmer, clarinetist David Krakauer and bassoonist Frank Morelli.

Concert-goers are invited to come early and picnic or stroll the grounds of the 70-acre Stoeckel Estate.


Summer Carillon Concerts

Old Campus (between High and College, Chapel and Elm streets)

Dates: Friday evenings, June 22-Aug. 17

Time: 7 p.m.

Admission is free

Info.: Catey Bradford or Ken Shevlin, (203) 432-2309

Concert-goers are invited to bring a picnic dinner and lawn chairs or blankets to hear artists play the 54-bell carillon in Harkness Tower. In case of rain, an indoor listening space will be provided in Phelps Hall. This year's concert schedule is as follows:

June 22 -- Peter Langberg, Logumkloster, Denmark

June 29 -- Sally Slade-Warner, St. Stephen's Church, Cohasset, Massachusetts

July 6 -- Robin Austin, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey

July 13 -- Judson Maynard

July 20 -- Peter Bremer

July 27 -- Helen Hawley

Aug. 3 -- Roy Lee '01, Yale

Aug. 10 -- Dan Kehoe, Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut

Aug. 17 -- Ellen Espenschied, Yale


Yale Summer Chorus

Concert date: July 25

Info.: (203) 436-4136 or e-mail douglas.brown@yale.edu

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

Sponsored by the Yale Glee Club, it will be directed by Douglas Brown MUS '99. The chorus will perform in a concert on Wednesday, July 25, at 8 p.m. The program will feature Ralph Vaughan Williams' choral masterpiece "Dona Nobis Pacem."

The first rehearsal is Monday, June 18, at 7 p.m. in Rm. 201 of Hendrie Hall, 165 Elm St. Rehearsals will be held on Mondays and Wednesdays (except July 4), 7-9 p.m., until the concert.


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

New center supporting legal reform in China

Team finds 'surprising ability' in bone marrow cells

Notable speakers will highlight this year's Commencement

Manipulating molecules through nanotechnology

Developing lightweight batteries for field missions

Summertime at Yale


ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Devoted Yale alumnus and benefactor John J. Lee dies

Noted legal scholar and humanist Charles L. Black Jr. dies

Commencement Information


MEDICAL NEWS

Graduate School to honor outstanding faculty mentors

Architecture students rise to the task of making a home

Psychologist Edward Zigler is lauded for lifetime achievements

Men's golf team to compete in regional championship

Yale recognized as 'good neighbor'

New 'Smile Carts' honor Yale nurse practitioner and the memory of alumnus

Grant to fund F&ES scholarships

YUWO scholarships to further studies and enhance careers awarded to Yale affiliates

Commencement Concert to mark closing of Morse Recital Hall for renovations

Yale senior's essay on life in New Haven wins first Hegel Prize



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