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Next year promises to be artistically and intellectually stimulating -- and diverse. Watch for the full calendar of events in your mailboxes this summer. Meanwhile, to whet your appetite, below are a few of the highlights we have in store for you; more are being added continually!
The Year in Preview
- A Pan-Baltic choral festival will begin in September with two performances by visiting choirs from Estonia: The Orthodox Singers directed by Valery Petrov on September 25 and Heinavanker on September 27. In January, Paul Hillier, of the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir and Ars Nova Copenhagen, will guest conduct the Yale Schola Cantorum in a program to include Estonian music.
- The Institute will present a performance of Sufi poetry and whirling dervishes in Battell Chapel on October 26.
- On November 23, Dame Gillian Weir will perform on the Newberry Organ in Woolsey Hall as part of the Great Organ Music at Yale series. In the spring, David Yearsley will perform on the Krigbaum Organ in Marquand Chapel. Recitals by Yale faculty artists Thomas Murray and Martin Jean are also on the roster.
- Yale Schola Cantorum will present its annual Chiaroscuro concert entitled Venetian Vespers and Savage Altars in New Haven and New York in November. Simon Carrington will conduct.
- In December, the Yale Camerata, directed by Marguerite L Brooks, will perform all six cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in Battell Chapel over two days, preceded by a daylong symposium for the general public entitled “The Christmas Oratorio in Context” (chaired by Prof. Markus Rathey), exploring both the historical context of Bach’s composition and our own understanding of Christmas as a cultural phenomenon. Additionally, there will be a preconcert talk before each of the performances exploring musical aspects of Bach’s piece.
- Robert Alter will give the first Lana Schwebel Lecture in Religion and the Arts, reading from his passionate and poetic translation of the Old Testament as part of the Yale Literature and Spirituality Series on December 8. Jacqueline Osherow will also give a reading in the fall.
- On March 1, Nicholas McGegan will conduct the Yale Camerata and Schola Cantorum in a program of Haydn, Mendelssohn, and Handel as a culmination to his weeklong residency at Yale.
- Yale Schola Cantorum, conducted by Simon Carrington, will present Bach’s monumental B-minor Mass in April.
- The works of Japanese artist Soichi Watanabe will be displayed as part of the exhibition series. Watanabe is the 2008-09 artist in residence at the Overseas Ministries Study Center. There will also be an exhibition of works by John August Swanson in the fall.
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