Wednesday, February 15, 2006

yaledailynews.com - Donations may alter Yale experience

yaledailynews.com - Donations may alter Yale experience: "Donations may alter Yale experience
Hefty gift to Music School, journalism program will provide new opportunities

BY EASHA ANAND
Staff Reporter
A musician walks in front of Sprague Hall with his cello. The School of Music was a recent recipient of generous alumni donations, which may have an impact on student life. (SHAWN XIANG / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER)

Paula Akbar MUS '75 hails from D Flat, Oregon. She hails from food stamps and a rural town where she stuck with the same violin teacher for 12 years because the alternative was to play the clarinet. Nowadays, she also hails from the National Symphony Orchestra, which has a violin section that's 30 percent Yale grads and 100 percent 'brilliant musicians,' and there were a lot of places she had to hail from in between."

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