Mission
The Friends of Music at Yale principally support undergraduate musical activities at Yale. Our mission is to further, at Yale University, learning in the art of music in all its forms and aspects, and to that end to solicit and encourage contributions of money and other gifts to support special music-related collections and faculty-directed undergraduate organizations whose sources of funds are not sufficient to accomplish their goals. We wish to further in every possible way the growth of musical culture in the undergraduate life of Yale College and in the community. Representative activities of The Friends of Music include sponsorship of an annual undergraduate recital competition, grants to the Bach Society, Collegium Musicum, Yale Symphony Orchestra, and other undergraduate music performance groups, and support of instrument restoration and other projects of the Collection of Musical Instruments and Historical Sound Recordings collection of the Music Library.
(below) Illustration from the title page of the Practica musicae by Franchinus Gaffurius, Venice, 1512, a gift to the Music Library from The Friends of Music in 1958. Photo: Music Library.
