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During his first Convocation as the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of the Yale School of Music, José García-León told each member of the incoming class, “You are a member of one of the most prestigious music programs in the world, of a school with an incredible history of training musicians at the highest level. I encourage you to pause and reflect on all you have accomplished already, all that has brought you to this moment.”
In his 1912 report to the “President and Fellows of Yale University,” Dean Horatio Parker wrote that the School’s Samuel Simons Sanford Fellowship — given “to the most gifted performer who shall also have marked ability in original composition,” Parker explained — “was made this year for the first time to Helen Eugenia Hagan for a brilliant performance of an original concerto (first movement) for piano and orchestra. Ms. Hagan shows not only pianistic talent of rare promise but also clearly marked ability to conceive and execute musical ideas of much charm and no little origina...
On May 23, the School of Music held its first in-person graduation ceremony in two years.
Yale music teacher's chest pains became a year of battling COVID FacebookTwitterEmail Richard Gard, who has experienced the lingering health effects of COVID-19 after his hospitalization at Yale New Haven Hospital for COVID-19 in March 2020, is held by his wife, Evelyn, at their home in Beacon Falls on April 2, 2021.Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media NEW HAVEN — Richard Gard’s heart was racing; his chest hurt. He thought for sure he was having a heart attack. “My heart was just out of control,” Gard said. “Overnight I had a night where my heart was pounding out of my chest.” H...