This is from the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. What is does ought to be clear from the title.
What they are hiring is off another planet.
Welcome to Eleanor Craig, who will be spending time at the ISM this summer as a short-term fellow. Eleanor is postdoctoral fellow in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University.
At the ISM, Craig will be studying poet Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s papers at Beinecke Library for a book project on religion, ritualization, and decolonial feminist critique in Asian diasporic poetry.
Rudolf Nureyev and Miss Piggy This clip needs no introduction. Perhaps the most incongruous pairing ever captured on video, a love duet between Rudolf Nureyev and Miss Piggy singing Baby It’s Cold Outside. Nureyev doesn’t need to pantomime discomfort, he […]
From the Lebrecht Album of the Week: Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his last symphony with left hand alone. A heart attack in 1966, followed by several falls and fractures, left him heavily disabled. His solution was […]
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