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Annual Meeting of the Friends

Join us on Tuesday, June 3rd at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the library and hear guest speaker Tom Duffy discuss "Being Glenn Miller."

Thomas C. Duffy, composer and conductor, is Professor (adjunct) of Music and Director of Bands at Yale University. He served as Acting Dean of the School of Music in 2005-2006, having served as Associate Dean since 1996 and Deputy Dean since 1999. He has served as a member of the Fulbright National Selection Committee and was a member of the historic Tanglewood II Symposium (2007). He attended the Harvard University Institute for Management and Leadership in Education in 2005, and has been the president of the New England College Band Directors Association and the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) Eastern Division, editor of the CBDNA Journal, publicity chair for the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, and chair of the Connecticut Music Educators Association’s Professional Affairs and Government Relations committees, and has represented music education in Yale’s Teacher Preparation Program.

He is the president-elect of the College Band Directors National Association and a member of American Bandmasters Association, American Composers Alliance, Connecticut Composers Incorporated, the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences and BMI. An active composer with a D.M.A. in composition from Cornell University, where he was a student of Karel Husa and Steven Stucky, he has accepted commissions from the American Composers Forum, the United States Military Academy at West Point, the U.S. Army Field Band, and numerous bands, choruses, and orchestras. He joined the Yale faculty in 1982.

Friends of the Blackstone Library

Anyone can join the Friends of the Blackstone Library. Membership dues are as follows:

  • Seniors and students $5
  • Individual $10
  • Family $15
  • Sustaining $25
  • Benefactor $50
If you would like to become a Friend, you can mail a check to the library or leave it at the check-out desk.

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