The opening of the Adams Center for Musical Arts marks a wonderful milestone in Yale’s history. By providing a new home for our rich and diverse musical community, this space demonstrates the promise of a more unified Yale. Music, as much as any discipline or activity, invites us to collaborate. What happens when people of creativity and genius work together to imagine new sounds, forms, and ideas? This stunning facility will draw musicians from the School of Music, Yale College, and across the university to practice and perform in a single space — opening the door to tremendous new possibilities. Our community is indebted to Stephen ’59ba and Denise Adams, whose vision and generosity have transformed the School of Music. We are also grateful to another Yale stalwart. Since arriving in 1995, Robert Blocker, the Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, has led the renovation of our physical spaces — Sprague Hall, Leigh Hall, and now Hendrie Hall — and promoted excellence in every facet of our music program. With gratitude to these friends and leaders, we are proud that the School of Music, one of the foremost institutions of its kind in the country, is now tuition-free. In celebrating the Adams Center for Musical Arts, we reflect on the extraordinary power of this art form. It is inspiring to consider how many chords, melodies, and riffs will be played or sung within the Center’s walls, and how many performers and audiences will be changed by what they experience here. In this remarkable space, the Yale community will discover, again and again, how music enriches all our lives.
Peter Salovey President and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology
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