Eastman School of Music Posts and Musings
By Kameron Ghanavati Massenet’s Cendrillon is coming together quickly here at Eastman. Stage assistants, costume designers, lighting designers, singers, the orchestra, and opera staff are hard at work preparing for the upcoming two-week marathon of technical rehearsals. The process, however, has been ongoing since rehearsals began in December. At that point, the creative process was…
The Roto-Twist, an “intriguing object” in the Eastman Mobile Acousmonium. All photographs by Oliver Schneller. By Erik Elmgren The Eastman Audio Research Center, formerly the Eastman Computer Music Center, has been pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic music study since their rebranding earlier this year. Their next project, the “Eastman Mobile Acousmonium” or EMA for short,…
Eastman Cello Institute faculty: Alan Harris, Kathleen Kemp, Cora Swenson Lee by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Distinguished Professor Alan Harris knows a thing or two about longevity at the cello: he has been performing and teaching at celebrated universities and music festivals virtually non-stop since 1959. He first arrived at Eastman in 1965, performing…
Eastman Opera Theatre’s spring production is something of a rarity: Cendrillon, a retelling of the Cinderella story by Jules Massenet. This opera by the popular composer of Manon and Werther was a great success at its 1899 premiere, but gradually fell out of the repertoire. In recent years it has made a comeback; the Metropolitan…
Conductor David Chin and his distinguished composer friend The 332nd birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach was earlier this week, but you can celebrate it this weekend with a performance of Bach’s grandest work, the Saint Matthew Passion. The concert, which brings together more than 40 Eastman students and recent graduates, was coordinated by, and will…
Participants in a 2014 Music Horizons recital by Jennifer Watson and Shaya Greathouse, Eastman Community Music School As winter winds down, many middle and high school musicians are considering their summer options—where will they attend a camp or festival this year? With whom will they perform or study? How can they prepare for college? Every…
Amy Beach, one of many American composers featured in A Century of Women in Music As part of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the right of women to vote in the New York State, the “All Stars” from the studio of Eastman Professor of Piano Tony Caramia will be presenting a special concert…
Women voting in New York City, 1917 One hundred years ago (and three years before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S Constitution), New York State granted universal suffrage to women. Western New York was one of the cradles of the women’s rights movement with the Seneca Falls Conference of 1848 and the…
Martha Cluver, photograph by Dashon Burton By Dan Gross Tonight, Eastman hosts the Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, performing at Kilbourn Hall. One of the members of the group, Martha Cluver, is an Eastman graduate, who shared information about the group’s beginning and her own journey from viola playing to professional singing. Tell us…