40-Year Celebration Events
Celebrating 40 Years at Yale
March 29 - May 3, 2014
Music ~ Worship ~ Arts
Performances
Yale Schola Cantorum and Juilliard 415 with members of Yale Baroque Ensemble
J.S. Bach: St. John Passion*
Masaaki Suzuki, conductor
April 4 Friday | 7:30 PM
Alice Tully Hall, NYC
Tickets at lincolncenter.org
April 5 Saturday | 8 PM
Woolsey Hall
Preconcert talk by Markus Rathey at 7 PM
Link to more information about the “J.S. Bach: St. John Passion”
Guest Artist: Nepathya
Balivadham Kutiyattam: An Enactment of Sanskrit Drama
April 6 Sunday | 8 PM
Mainstage Theatre, Cooperative Arts & Humanities High School
Presented in collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies, with support from the Lex Hixon Fund and the South Asian Council
Link to more information about the “Balivadham Kutiyattam: An Enactment of Sanskrit Drama” performance
Yale Camerata and Glee Club
Music of Haydn and Honegger
Marguerite L. Brooks and Jeffrey Douma, conductors
April 13 Sunday | 4 PM
Woolsey Hall
Link to more information about the “Music of Haydn and Honegger” performance
Yale Schola Cantorum
Harmoniemesse*
Music of Haydn, Mozart, and Mendelssohn
David Hill, conductor
May 2 Friday | 7:30 PM
St. James Church
865 Madison Ave., NYC
Link to more information about the May 2nd performance
May 3 Saturday | 5 PM
Woolsey Hall
Link to more information about the May 3rd performance
*presented with members of Yale Baroque Ensemble with support from Yale School of Music
Religion and Film
I Can Do Bad All by Myself
April 3 Thursday |7:30 PM
Whitney Humanities Center
Link to more informaion about “I Can Do Bad All by Myself” performance
Films at the Whitney, supported by the Barbakow Fund for Innovative Film Programs at Yale, and presented with the Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion, the Program in American Studies, the Film Studies Program, and the Department of Religious Studies
Lectures, Readings, and Symposia
Lost/Found in Translation: Crossing Contexts in Music, Worship, and the Arts
ISM Fellows Symposium
March 29 Saturday | 1 – 6 PM
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Rm 317
Link to more information about the “Lost/Found in Translation: Crossing Contexts in Music, Worship, and the Arts” performance
Fanny Howe
Film Color: A Story in Black and White
The Lana Schwebel Memorial Lecture
April 3 Thursday | 5:30 PM
ISM Great Hall
Yale Literature and Spirituality Series
Link to more information about the “Yale Literature and Spirituality Series” performance
The Passion in Context
An afternoon symposium
Presenters: Peter Hawkins, Michelle Karnes, Vasileios Marinis, Christoph Wolff
April 5 Saturday | 1 – 5 PM
Linsly-Chittenden Hall
Followed by the preconcert talk and Schola Cantorum performance of the St. John Passion in Woolsey Hall Link to more information about “The Passion in Context symposium”
Markus Rathey
Between Divine Glory and Human Suffering: Music and Drama in Bach’s St. John Passion
April 5 Saturday | 7 PM
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall
Preconcert talk followed by Schola/Juilliard performance
Link to more information about the “Between Divine Glory and Human Suffering: Music and Drama in Bach’s St. John Passion” performance
Baby Varghese
Liturgy and Symbolism: Syriac Perspective
April 7 Monday | 4:30 PM
ISM Great Hall
Liturgy Symposium Series
Link to more information about the “Liturgy and Symbolism: Syriac Perspective” performance
Spencer Reece
The Road to Emmaus
poetry reading followed by book signing
April 10 Thursday | 5:30 PM
Marquand Chapel
Yale Literature and Spirituality Series
Link to “Yale Literature and Spirituality Series”
Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium
An afternoon symposium
Presenters: Nina Glibetic, Vasileios Marinis, Robert Nelson, Stefano Parenti, Gabriel Radle, Robert F. Taft, Elena Velkovska
April 24 Thursday | 12:45 – 5:15 PM
ISM Great Hall
followed by a reception in the ISM Gallery of Sacred Arts
Link to more information about the “Liturgical Space and Time in Byzantium” event
Interdisciplinary Considerations: The Context of Slow Dancing
Panel discussion centering on David Michalek’s film installation
Panelists: Joseph Roach, moderator; Paul Bloom; Emily Coates; David Michalek, and others.
April 30 Wednesday | 4 – 6 PM
Yale University Art Gallery Auditorium
Exhibitions
Visions of the Sacred
Puppets and Performing Arts of South and Southeast Asia
curated by Kathy Foley
April 3 – June 20, 2014
Whitney Humanities Center
Link to more information about the “Visions of the Sacred: Puppets and Performing Arts of South and Southeast Asia” event
Presented in conjunction with the Nepathya performance on April 6, in collaboration with the Whitney Humanities Center, with support from the Lex Hixon Fund and the Department of Religious Studies
Reception
April 8 Tuesday | 5 – 7 PM
Whitney Humanities Center
George Kordis: Light and Rhythm
Byzantine Icons in the Postmodern World
April 14 – 25 (closed Easter)
ISM Gallery of Sacred Arts
Link to more information about the “Light and Rhythm Byzantine Icons in the Postmodern World” event
David Michalek: Slow Dancing
Film installation
April 30 – May 4 | 8 – 11 PM
Cross Campus
Link to more information about the “Slow Dancing Film installation”
Interdisciplinary panel discussion April 30