Benefit concert raises funds for disaster relief
Responding to the great humanitarian need created by
three recent natural disasters, Yale and New Haven community musicians
performed a special benefit concert in Sprague Hall on May 21. The concert,
called "Help Can't Wait," raised $10,000 and the proceeds were given
to major charities providing services to the victims of the earthquakes in
China, the typhoon in Myanmar, and the recent tornadoes in the United States.
Performers included the Yale-New Haven Chinese School Children's Chorus and
members of the Yale Philharmonia, Yale Concert Band, Yale Symphony, Yale Glee
Club, Yale Cellos, and student and faculty soloists from the School of Music.
This was the third "Help Can't Wait"
concert organized by musical organizations at Yale. The first was in response
to the tsunami and earthquakes in Southeast Asia and the Pacific in 2004, and
the second benefited victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Alumnus wins the Pulitzer prize in music
David Lang ’83MusAM has won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize
in music for his piece, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the children's story by
Hans Christian Andersen. The piece was commissioned by Carnegie Hall and
premiered in October 2007 at Carnegie's Zankel Hall in a performance with
sopranos Miriam Andersen and Bente Vist, tenor Christopher Watson, and
bass-baritone Jakob Bloch Jespersen. Lang's music has been performed by
ensembles as varied as the New York Philharmonic and the Kronos Quartet. He is
renowned for his work with the experimental collective Bang on a Can, which he
founded with two other Yale composers, Michael Gordon ’82MusM and Julia Wolfe
’86MusM. David Lang was visiting professor of composition at the Yale School of
Music in 2006.
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