Yale Divinity School-Notes from the Quad

Totally Brubeck: The Dave Brubeck Quartet and Yale Camerata in Woolsey Hall to Perform during Convocation and Reunions Week

On Monday, October 9, in its first concert of the season the first night of Convocation and Reunions week, The Dave Brubeck Quartet and full orchestra will perform Brubeck's Pange Lingua Variations with the Yale Camerata, directed by Marguerite L. Brooks., will perform Dave Brubeck's Pange Lingua with The Dave Brubeck Quartet and full orchestra. Russell Gloyd will conduct. The work, part of a canon of sacred works composed by the celebrated jazz icon, will form the second half of a varied program. The Quartet will present a more “traditional” selection of jazz favorites during the first part of the evening. The concert, sponsored jointly by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale Divinity School, begins at 8 p.m. at Woolsey Hall on the Yale campus in New Haven.

Dave Brubeck is a legendary figure in contemporary jazz. Winner of numerous awards, including the National Medal of the Arts and a Lifetime Achievement Grammy Award by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Mr,. Brubeck has enjoyed an extensive and varied career as a performer, recording artist, and composer. He has appeared with many jazz luminaries, including Duke Ellington, Stan Getz, Louis Armstrong, and Carmen McRae, as well as with his own Dave Brubeck Quartet. Perhaps best known for his secular jazz work, Dave Brubeck is also a prolific composer of sacred works, including To Hope! A Celebration (mass), Beloved Son (Easter oratorio), The Voice of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost oratorio), The Gates of Justice (on text drawn from the Old Testament and from writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.), and the Gregorian chant-inspired Pange Lingua, which will be performed at on the New Haven concert. In November 2004, in recognition of his body of sacred choral music, the University of Fribourg in Switzerland awarded him Brubeck an honorary doctorate in sacred theology, making him the first composer in any genre of music to be so honored.

Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale Camerata's approximately sixty singers are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. The Camerata performs a widely varied spectrum of choral literature, with a special commitment to choral music of our time.

General admission tickets ($15; $10 for students and seniors) for the October 9 concert are available at the Yale Concert Office, 203/432-4158 or online at www.yale.edu/music. For more information, call 203/432-5062.