music

The Yale Slavic Chorus presents a performance by Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble - Songs of Sustenance from Balkan, Baltic, Caucasian, Mediterranean, and Slavic Lands.

Kitka is an ensemble from Oakland, CA that specializes in folk music of Georgia, Armenia, the Balkans, and Ukraine.

This very special performance is sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speaker Series, the Institute for Sacred Music, the REEES Program at the Yale MacMillan Center, the Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Dept. of Music.

Free Advance Registration: tinyurl.com/kitkayale

Mention of Greek religious music more often than not conjures up liturgical music–singing to be precise, chanting, monophonic or in unison, neumes, modes, an archaic idiom and, its raison d’être, the Word of God. Parallel to liturgical music but independent from it, flourished for centuries an equally rich and long tradition of popular religious songs. Their composition, transmission, orchestration, musical and poetics meters, linguistic idiom as well as the lyrics themselves, are consonant with the Cypriot oral tradition of music and singing.

Bulgarika in concert

Come and enjoy live Bulgarian music and learn traditional Bulgarian line dance from the finest professionals!
Donka Koleva - vocals
Nikolay Kolev – gadulka
Temelko Ivanov – kaval
Nikolay Kodzhabashev – tambura
Marin Chalamov - tupan

Location: Provost’s House
35 Hillhouse Ave

Co-Sponsored By the Bulgarian Cultural Center in CT Roden Krai; First Year Seminar Program; European Studies Council of the Yale MacMillan Center; and the Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies Program

This 2-day convening aims to explore the ongoing impact of Iberian histories in South Asia in shaping identities, social distinction, histories of merchant and commercial capitalism. We bring to the longue duree inquiry of Luso-Hispanic globality (15th century and beyond), a unique focus on histories of music and performance in South Asia and the Americas, particularly Brazil.

October 12-13, 2023
This two-day symposium brings together thinkers and writers engaged in the history and life of Vilnius to reflect on the role, space, and place of the city and its peoples. Vilnius encompasses centuries-long historical, cultural, and political significance to many nations of Central and Eastern Europe including Lithuanians, Poles, Jews, Belarusians, and others. The goal of the Vilnius 700 symposium at Yale is to reach for a better understanding of Vilnius both as a place and as an idea, a city with a multiplicity of peoples and voices – a wealth of polyphony.