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September 19, 2019
The Gilmore Music Library is pleased to announce that it is now providing significantly enhanced online streaming access to audiovisual materials in its Special Collections, including Historical Sound Recordings (HSR) and Oral History of American Music (OHAM). Working with the consulting and...
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September 19, 2019
This year marks 50 years since Oral History of American Music (OHAM) was founded in 1969 by Vivian Perlis. Various celebrations of this anniversary are planned throughout the academic year. Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media is hosting a two-week long installation of pieces created by...
September 18, 2019
Join us for a 50th anniversary screening of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Robert Redford and Yale School of Drama alumnus Paul Newman, and directed by Yale College grad George Roy Hill. The screening will be followed by a discussion with Wesleyan's Joel Pfister. "Butch and Sundance"...
September 6, 2019
Join us for an evening of films and filmmakers in honor of the anniversaries of coeducation at Yale College and the Yale graduate schools. Directed by Yale Women: A Celebration of Women Filmmakers at Yale presents films made by Yale alumnae, from pioneering animator Mary Ellen Bute '26 DRA, to...
September 6, 2019
Join us for a 30th anniversary screening of Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing, followed by a discussion with Yale's Daphne Brooks, Aimee Cox, and Daniel HoSang. The Oscar-noinated screenplay by Lee sets tensions to boil on a hot Bed-Stuy day. Siskel and Ebert both named it the best film of 1989, and...
August 29, 2019
Join us for a free 35mm screening of Sally Potter's Orlando, starring Tilda Swinton in the gender-bending title role. Adapted from a novel by Virginia Woolf, this two-time Oscar-nominated drama spans centuries, and takes its hero/heroine from the English countryside to Constantinople. Featuring...
From Prodigy to Priestess: Clara Schumann at 200
August 27, 2019
On September 13, 2019, we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Wieck Schumann (1819–1896), one of the most brilliant and influential musicians of the nineteenth century. Beginning as a dazzling child prodigy and ending as a black-clad “priestess” of high art, she was in the...

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