Far Afield

This event is a celebration of music by John Eaton, and of the composer’s eightieth birthday year. The retrospective will include works for soloists and ensemble, including Mass II and El Divino Narciso, as well as songs for voice and piano. Carmen Helena-Tellez will be the music director.

We are pleased to announce that the fiction writer and 2010 Visiting Artist Natalie Haney Tilghman will receive a 2015 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, which is given annually to six women writers who demonstrate excellence and promise in the early stages of their careers.

Yale University Press has published Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, a wide-ranging study by Frank M. Snowden (2003 Resident) that illuminates the connection between epidemic diseases and societal change.