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Happy Pride Month! We’re celebrating with our newly updated playlist of recent and classic Nonesuch recordings by LGBTQ+ composers, performers, and allies, including k.d. lang, The Magnetic Fields, Caroline Shaw, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Mountain Man, Jeremy Denk, Nico Muhly, and more. You can hear it here.
Happy weekend! There are lots of great live events ahead around the world from Rhiannon Giddens, Jeremy Denk, Tigran Hamasyan, Hurray for the Riff Raff, Kronos Quartet, Lake Street Dive, Joshua Redman & Christian McBride, Caroline Shaw & Attacca Quartet, Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway, Wilco, and Daughter of Swords. Details here.
Congratulations to vocalist, violinist, composer, and producer Caroline Shaw, who was one of ten individuals to receive an honorary degree from Yale University for distinction in their fields at Yale’s 321st graduation ceremony on Monday. She was given an honorary Mus.D. Shaw earned her master’s degree from Yale in 2007.
“The 10 individuals we honor this morning serve as examples to you, our graduates, to encourage you to aspire to excellence and to value those elements of human character that they embody: creativity, curiosity, discipline, integrity, and a passion for public service,” Yale President Peter Salovey said during the university-wide Commencement ceremony.
The other honorary degree recipients include former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (in memoriam), Congressman James Clyburn, journalist Krista Tippett, historian Jill Lepore, Judge Myron Thompson, gene therapy pioneer Dr. Jean Bennett, cultural sociologist Orlando Patterson, and biochemist Katalin Karikó and immunologist Drew Weissman, whose work was the cornerstone for the development of the COVID-19 vaccine.
There’s lots of great live music ahead around the world this weekend from Mary Halvorson,Jeremy Denk,Rhiannon Giddens,Tigran Hamasyan,Emmylou Harris,Hurray for the Riff Raff, Gabriel Kahane, Kronos Quartet,Lake Street Dive,Jeff Parker,Caroline Shaw, and Attacca Quartet. Details and tickets here.
