Eastman Showcase – 2007
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An Eastman Scholar in Italy
November 2007
Professor Patrick Macey, scholar of Medieval and Renaissance music and chair of Eastman’s musicology department, recently traveled to Bologna, Italy, to take part in Il movimento domenicano al femminile: storia, figure, istituzioni...
Brazen Talent
October 2007
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s vaunted brass section has shone for many years ... Christopher Martin (BM ’97) was appointed CSO first trumpet in 2005, a position at the top of the orchestral trumpet world...
A Little Ying Music
September 2007
It’s certainly not unusual for the acclaimed Ying Quartet to be featured in Strings magazine, as it is in the October 2007 issue. What is unusual is the composer under discussion – not Beethoven or Bartók, but Broadway’s Stephen Sondheim...
Songs Sung Blue
August 2007
Judging from critical response to her newest album, Sky Blue, Grammy-winning jazz composer Maria Schneider (MM ’85) definitely did it right...
Play Mstislav For Me
July 2007
When the great Russian cellist, conductor, and human rights advocate Mstislav Rostropovich died in April of this year, Eastman cello students wasted no time in arranging a musical tribute to him...
Old Friends and Lots of Love
June 2007
On May 27, interim dean Jamal Rossi presented a visibly moved Chuck Mangione with the Eastman School of Music Alumni Achievement Award before a full Eastman Theatre audience.
Someone’s in the Kitchen
May 2007
The May 2007 issue of Chamber Music magazine features an article about New York City’s Music Kitchen, founded by violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins (BM ’93)
Cover Girl
April 2007
Sandra Dackow (BM ’73, MM ’77, PhD ’87) appears on the cover of the March 2007 issue of Instrumentalist...
Tony and the Tony Winners
March 2007
Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey (MM ’01) appeared in the recent Los Angeles Opera production of...
Helping Others Find a Voice
February 2007
An Eastman alum is named a 2007 Coca-Cola Company/NFAA Distinguished Teacher in the Arts...
Marimba Master
January 2007
A notable Eastman percussion alumnus receives a very prestigious honor...