School makes third round of alumniVentures grants
Dean Robert Blocker has announced the 2010–11 alumniVentures awards, the grants that the Yale School of Music offers to its alumni for projects that follow a single criterion: to advance the cause of music. The largest grant this year went to Kelly Dehnert ’86MusM, to support the only university-level band program in Malawi. Funds will be used to build new practice facilities for the band and provide for instrument repair. Another substantial grant went to Dantes Rameau ’07MusM to support the Atlanta Music Project. The year-round, five-day-a-week, after-school youth orchestra program targets at-risk youth from grades 1 through 12, and is modeled on Venezuela’s El Sistema program. Students are provided with instruments, instruction, classes, and performance opportunities. Sarita Kwok ’05MusAM, ’06ArtA, ’09MusAD, was chair of this year’s alumniVentures selection committee, whose other members were David Kurtz ’80MusM, Richard Lalli ’80MusAM, ’86DMA, Emily Payne Veletzos ’99MusM, and Robert Weirich ’76MusM, ’81DMA.
Yale in New York features early music
Early music has been a part of Yale’s musical life since Paul Hindemith founded the country’s first collegium musicum here in the 1940s. In recent years, it has taken on greater prominence, with more courses in performance practice and the establishment of the Yale Baroque Ensemble. The ensemble is a one-year intensive program of study on baroque strings for graduates of the School of Music. Now the Yale Baroque Ensemble, directed by Robert Mealy, will perform in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall, as part of the Yale in New York series, on Monday, April 25. The program, called Stylus Fantasticus, will feature avant-garde music from seventeenth-century Italy and Germany, including chamber sonatas in the “stilo moderno” by Dario Castello, Biagio Marini, and G. B. Fontana, along with ensemble sonatas by Antonio Bertali, Johann Schmelzer, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, and others.
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