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        & Contemporary Media
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      • Musicology
      • Organ, Sacred Music
        & Historical Keyboards
      • Piano
      • Strings, Harp, & Guitar
      • Music Theory
      • Voice, Opera & Vocal Coaching
      • Woodwinds, Brass & Percussion
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      • Piano Accompanying
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      • Beal Institute
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Daily Archives: October 18, 2004

THE LEGEND AND LEGACY OF GEORGE EASTMAN: A VISION TO CREATE THE EASTMAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC

News RoomBy Jessica KaufmanOctober 18, 2004

ROCHESTER, NY — At the birth of America’s Roaring ’20s, a small group of visionary civic leaders in a mid-sized Western New York city came together with the dream of forming a world-class school of music. The story of how, in 1921, Rochester industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music,…

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