Rachel Fine, the executive director and CEO of the Los Angeles-based Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, has been named executive director at @Yale_Schwarzman Center.
news.yale.edu/2022/08/16/rac…
Last but certainly not least, in our #MeetOurAmbassadors series are @@nancyyoon & Lucy Tucker Yates. We are so thankful and proud to have 65 individuals, all titans within their communities, as champions of the arts. Stay tuned for more from our ambassadors throughout the season!
I sat down with Jaques Herzog to talk about new (Philly's Calder Gardens) and old (Dominus, Rehab) work, the dismal state of health-care architecture, and H&dM's upcoming show @royalacademy, among other subjects:
nytimes.com/2023/07/07/arts/…
Do you have tickets to a #Masterclass this summer at the #MusicAcademy yet? An opportunity to observe a one-on-one teaching session between teaching artist and fellow. Find one that interests you: musicacademy.org/calendar/
📷: Seth Parker Woods by James Napoli #Cello
Breaking my Twitter silence to share that I have left @KPCC. Thanks to all who listened to The Frame, Hollywood: The Sequel, or Retake. Life in public radio has been fulfilling and educational, having entered with no real radio experience (minus some bantering with @kimmasters)
Monuments help tell the American story.
The Mellon Foundation will award nine new grants to municipalities across the country to help transform our nation’s commemorative landscape. #MonumentsSummermellon.org/news/monuments-pr…
My string quartet "Star-Crossed Signals" performed by the "outstanding" @VeronaQuartet (NYTimes) comes out this weekend on their new album "Shatter" alongside works by Reena Esmail & Michael Gilbertson. Preorder here music.apple.com/us/album/sha…
@OjaiFestivals is a wrap, and it was beyond everything I could have hoped for. It takes a village to make a festival- and the Ojai village is one of the best. ❤️❤️❤️ more pics and thoughts to come!
Yale Dance Lab and Yale Symphony Orchestra's performance of Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) is now available to watch online!
youtu.be/mUGqOE6hAUA
Just NEVER get tired of @OjaiFestivals and will return every summer for the rest of time. (@wumanpipa is the Eddie Van Halen of the pipa. #rockstar )
`We can't just be in our ivory tower': the Italian conductor aiming to open up the Royal Opera House to everyone 🎉🎵
We're delighted to announce that @speranzascapp will join The Royal Opera as Principal Guest Conductor in 2025
Read her interview here: bit.ly/3X58vw5
Speranza Scappucci has been announced as @RoyalOperaHouse's first principal guest conductor since 1997 – making her the first to be appointed into the role in 25 years. 🎼
The Italian conductor will take up the position in September 2025, at the start of the 2025-26 season.
Oh wow, what a sad day. I just learned of the death of the venerable Corradina Caporello, Italian diction coach with whom I had the privilege of coaching so many roles including Violetta, Lucia, Contessa, Ilia, Donna Anna, Donna Elvira, and Musetta.