Eastman School of Music singers and baroque instrumentalists will present Heinrich Schütz’s The Christmas Story (Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, as part of the Third Thursday Concert with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ series at the Memorial Art Gallery. Schütz’s The Christmas Story presents the Nativity story in a…
Future violinists have a chance to learn about and try the most prominent instrument in the orchestra when the Eastman Community Music School celebrates Violin Day on Saturday, Dec. 13. Adults and children can enjoy recitals, watch classes, and try their hand at making music during a string instrument petting zoo. All the activities are…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired Taos chamber group remembers Ralph Guenther (The Taos News 11/25/2014) Composer Ralph Guenther, who would have turned 100 on Sunday (Nov. 23), will be remembered in…
Melina Esse, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, received the American Musicological Society’s highly coveted 2014 Alfred Einstein Award, which honors an article of exceptional merit published during the previous year by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career. Esse was honored for her article “Encountering the…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) Vienna’s Albanians get in on the Mozart act (BalkanInsight 11/21/14) Ralph Locke, a US musicologist working on the exotic in western music, told me by email…
Baritone Derrick Smith, whose career included opera roles such as Porgy, Crown, and Jake in Porgy and Bess as well as acclaimed solo performances, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, following a heart attack. He was 56. Mr. Smith received his master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1988 and had been on the faculty…
