November 2015 Archives

In conjunction with the new exhibition, "“How right they are to adore you!”: The Song of Songs Interpreted Through Fine Printing", the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is presenting a talk by artists Robin Price and Barbara Benish. It will take place in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall on Tuesday, November 10 at 3:00 pm. The artists will speak about their ten-year collaboration on a forthcoming (2016) edition of "The Song of Songs".

Price and Benish previously collaborated on "The Book of Revelation" (R. Price, 1995). This new edition will feature Benish’s images interspersed with English and Hebrew text on eight scrolls (one for each chapter of The Song of Songs and each one several feet long). Price and Benish will discuss their ideas for approaching this sacred text, the selection of an English translation, their visual research of historic and contemporary Judaica, other influences on the imagery and structure, and more considerations in the making of this book art object.

The lecture is sponsored by the Yale University Library Bibliographical Press. Join us after the talk to print your own keepsake on an Albion hand press.

Questions? Contact Jae Rossman, Director, The Bibliographical Press, and Associate Director, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at jae.rossman@yale.edu

The library has a one-month trial to the medici.tv database, an online database of classical (as well as some world music and jazz) music videos.  The database is open to all students, faculty, and staff.

medici.tv boasts a collection of 1500 classical music videos of ballets, concerts, operas, documentaries, artist profiles and educational programs making it the largest online classical music video library in the world.  Each year, several hundred new programs are added to the catalog.  From films about the current music scene to archival footage from the 1950s, medici.tv offers a wide-ranging film and performance experience.

medici.tv presents annually more than 100 live broadcasts of concerts, festivals, and competitions from around the world.  Recent streams have included concerts from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Mexico City, Paris, and Shanghai. Recent festivals and competitions have showcased the Salzburg Festival and the Verbier Festival in the Swiss Alps, as well as the Tchaikovsky Competition from Moscow and St. Petersburg, and the Chopin Competition from Warsaw (which is not yet out on DVD).

Artists include past greats such as Maria Callas, Leonard Bernstein, and Vladimir Horowitz, to present: Gustavo Dudamel, Joyce Di Donato, and Evgeny Kissin.  Educational programs such as lectures or masterclasses are presented by Anner Bylsma, Yvonne Loriod, Alfred Brendel, Boris Berman, Bernard Haitink, Simon Carrington, Pierre Boulez, and Nicholas Harnoncourt.  There’s even a masterclass from Yale with Dawn Upshaw.

The catalog can be browsed by composer, performer, director, type of performance, or musical period, or searched by work or composer.

medici.tv is compatible with Mac or PC, is available in high definition, and through mobile or tablet apps.

Please send your feedback about this database to Ruthann.mctyre@yale.edu.  Questions or difficulties? Contact Suzanne.Lovejoy@yale.edu, 203-432-0497, Music Library ML112.

In conjunction with the new exhibition, "“How right they are to adore you!”: The Song of Songs Interpreted Through Fine Printing", the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library is presenting a talk by artists Robin Price and Barbara Benish on Thursday, November 10 at 3:00 pm in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall. They will speak about their ten-year collaboration on a forthcoming (2016) edition of "The Song of Songs".

Price and Benish previously collaborated on "The Book of Revelation" (R. Price, 1995). This new edition will feature Benish’s images interspersed with English and Hebrew text on eight scrolls (one for each chapter of The Song of Songs and each one several feet long). Price and Benish will discuss their ideas for approaching this sacred text, the selection of an English translation, their visual research of historic and contemporary Judaica, other influences on the imagery and structure, and more considerations in the making of this book art object.

The lecture is sponsored by the Yale University Library Bibliographical Press. Join us after the talk to print your own keepsake on an Albion hand press.

Questions? Contact Jae Rossman, Director, The Bibliographical Press, and Associate Director, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library at jae.rossman@yale.edu.

Image by Barbara Benish.

All are welcome to join us for a book talk on Monday, November 9 at 4:30 pm in the Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall. In "The Worldmakers", Ayesha Ramachandran, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale and the Director of Graduate Studies, reconstructs the imaginative struggles of early modern artists, philosophers, and writers to make sense of something that we take for granted: the world, imagined as a whole. Once a new, exciting, and frightening concept, “the world” was transformed in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. But how could one envision something that no one had ever seen in its totality? "The Worldmakers" moves beyond histories of globalization to explore how “the world” itself—variously understood as an object of inquiry, a comprehensive category, and a system of order—was self-consciously shaped by human agents. Gathering an international cast of characters, from Dutch cartographers and French philosophers to Portuguese and English poets, the book describes a history of firsts: the first world atlas, the first global epic, the first modern attempt to develop a systematic natural philosophy—all part of an effort by early modern thinkers to capture “the world” on the page.

All are welcome to join us on Thursday, November 5 at 4:00 pm for an opening lecture and reception for the opening of the exhibit "Out of the Desert: Resilience and Memory in Japanese American Internment” in the Sterling Memorial Lecture Hall & Memorabilia Room. The reception will feature remarks by historian Gary Okihiro and guest of honor, Yonekazu Satoda. A viewing of the exhibition and a light reception will follow. 

Drawing from Sterling Library’s Manuscripts and Archives and the Beinecke Library's Collection of Western Americana, the exhibition highlights Yale’s extensive collection of materials related to the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Rich in internee correspondence, artwork, and literature, it underscores the importance of everyday creative production and alternative narratives of internment.

Gary Y. Okihiro is professor of international and public affairs and the founding director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at Columbia University. Professor Okihiro is the author of ten books and one of the founders of the fields of Asian American and comparative ethnic studies. He is the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Studies Association and the Association for Asian American Studies.

Yonekazu Satoda was a 20-year-old senior at the University of California, Berkeley awaiting his graduation in the spring of 1942 when Executive Order 9066 resulted in the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. Satoda was subsequently incarcerated at Fresno Assembly Center and Jerome War Relocation Center in Denson, Arkansas. Throughout his internment, Satoda kept a journal. The diary, along with his original diploma mailer, are featured in the exhibit. 94-year-old Satoda and his family will be visiting from California for the exhibit’s opening.