Composer Jeanine Tesori and singer Dawn Upshaw join Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences as professors in the practice — bringing both boundary-pushing expertise and a commitment to mentoring the next generation.

The Lincoln Center’s season long celebration of Tesori and her work “centers around the theme of making connections—between artists, audiences, and the arts organizations that make up Lincoln Center.”

In a new book, Yale’s Michael E. Veal draws on the language of architecture and photography to show how John Coltrane and Miles Davis transformed modern jazz.

In his new book, Braxton Shelley, Associate Professor of Music, of Sacred Music, and of Divinity, explores Bishop G. E. Patterson’s eternal transmission of the sacred through Black Pentecostal music-making.

Undergraduates explored topics ranging from modern opera to heavy metal in three new courses offered through Yale’s Associates in Teaching program.

Michael E. Veal has been appointed the Henry L. and Lucy G. Moses Professor of Music, the appointment was effective Feb. 20.