Convocation 2021

Robert Blocker, Dean

Convocation Thursday, September 9, 2021 7:00 p.m.

Morse Recital Hall in Sprague Memorial Hall

welcome Robert Blocker Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, Yale University Professor of Piano Professor, School of Management, Affiliate

invocation Martin Jean Director, Institute of Sacred Music Professor of Organ Professor, Adjunct, of Divinity

presentations Peter Salovey A.B., A.M., Ph.D. President, Yale University Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology

performance D’un matin de printemps, ILB 5 Tai Murray, violin Melvin Chen, piano

Lili Boulanger

presentations Dean Blocker Cultural Leadership Citation Gustave Jacob Stoeckel Award

matriculation of the entering class Scott Strobel Provost, Yale University Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Dean Blocker

remarks Who Do You Say You Are? Dean Blocker

performance An die Musik

Franz Schubert

Paul Watkins, cello Robert Blocker, piano

recessional Yale Percussion Group

An die Musik Franz Schubert (1797–1828) | Text by Franz von Schober (1796–1882) Translation by Richard Cross