Libby Van Cleve News Today

The late composer, whose work was often inspired by the California landscape, gets a memorial tribute.

Yale’s Interdisciplinary Program in Music and the Black Church unites scholars, practitioners, and students in study — and celebration — of Black sacred music.

Since Professor Braxton Shelley’s appointment to the ISM and Yale School of Music in July 2021, he has been collaborating with Libby Van Cleve, director of Yale Library’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection to establish a series of one-on-one interviews with leaders in gospel music.

Marshall, whose work introduced listeners to highly imaginative new soundscapes, taught composition at Yale as an adjunct faculty member. He was 80.

An influential figure in American experimental music, he was part of a group of composers who stripped music down to basic elements and used digital sounds.