PRISM the Newsletter of the ISM

May 14, 2024
Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) collection recently added three Grammy Award–winning artists to its roster of interviews: Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Richard...
May 8, 2024
The psalmist exhorts us to “make a joyful noise unto the Lord,” and on May 5 more than 1,000 people in Woolsey Hall raised their voices in jubilant noise. An ecumenical hymn...
May 3, 2024
The culminating event of the ISM’s 50th anniversary celebrations will take place at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5 in Woolsey Hall. The Rev. Dr. Barbara Brown Taylor and the Rev. Dr...
April 30, 2024
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music celebrated its 50th anniversary on April 27 in grand style. A glittering performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor provided the capstone to a...
April 30, 2024
This past semester, ISM faculty members Vasileios Marinis and Felicity Harley-McGowan taught a new course, Picturing the Bible in Early Christianity and Byzantium, in which...
April 30, 2024
Yale has a new professional choir, and it is well worth hearing. The Yale Consort sings evensong services at local churches, especially Christ Church at 84 Broadway. Most of...
April 28, 2024
Bryan Spinks, the Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor Emeritus of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology, has continued to stay busy with his research and teaching in spite...