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May 4, 2020
ISM Fellows program manager Eben Graves and Mark Roosien—current ISM fellow, and scholar of liturgical and ritual studies—discuss how liturgies respond to natural disasters....
Charles Krigbaum
May 1, 2020
The ISM is saddened to learn that Charles Krigbaum, the eminent organist and Professor Emeritus of Music at Yale University, died peacefully at his home in Massachusetts on...
Marquand Chapel empty
April 28, 2020
by Silvia Gosnell. Rarely does so much of humanity share such similar circumstances of external life as we do at the present moment. In the context of covid-19, our lives in...
Marguerite L. Brooks
April 27, 2020
The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is delighted to announce that the National Collegiate Choral Organization (NCCO) has established the Marguerite L. Brooks...
April 27, 2020
ISM Fellows program manager Eben Graves and Sumarsam—current ISM fellow, expert in Indonesian music, theater, and gamelan, and professor of music at Wesleyan University—...
Abdul-Rehman Malik
April 20, 2020
ISM Director Martin Jean and Abdul-Rehman Malik , journalist, educator, and cultural organizer, discuss Ramadan in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic. Video goes live on...
April 19, 2020
Professor Vasileios Marinis, author of Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium, shows what a mosaic from the Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas can tell us about Easter in the...