Music and the Black Church News

Congratulations to Braxton Shelley who has been promoted to the rank of full professor at Yale University.

Yale’s Oral History of American Music collection recently added three Grammy-winning artists to its roster of interviews.

The culminating event of the ISM’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

The program burst into the spotlight Friday evening with an exuberant celebration of gospel music at the College Street Music Hall.

In November 2022, the ISM welcomed Donald Lawrence to campus for a gospel concert and master class with students.

Eight leading music and arts ministers from around the country explored tradition and innovation in Black sacred music.

Yale Institute of Sacred Music was thrilled to host the legendary Clark Sisters for a concert, symposium, and masterclass. 

In April, 2023, the Yale Institute of Sacred Music hosted the legendary Clark Sisters for a concert, symposium, and masterclass.

Yale Divinity and ISM students will have the opportunity to be coached in voice, keyboard, and percussion by three new artists-in-residence.

The Clark Sisters add their voices to the library’s growing collection of taped interviews with prominent figures in gospel music.

To mark the season of Lent & Black History month, the concert explored one of many musical journeys of a people stolen from their land who find them.

In the early 1890s, Dvořák, was introduced to Black American spirituals by the American composer Harry Burleigh.