A Time to Remember …

On Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music faculty members and students will perform works by select Jewish composers to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). This program will include powerful works by Gideon Klein, Wladyslaw Szpilman, Erwin Schulhoff, and Paul Schoenfield which honor those who perished, those who…

Maestro Steve Crowley puts down his…hammer for his final Eastman Opera Theatre production

With reluctance, the Voice and Opera Department announces the retirement of Steve Crowley after almost 30 years as Eastman Opera Theatre’s Technical Director/Producer. Steve joined Eastman Opera Theatre in September 1985, working with Richard Pearlman, after a varied career with Trinity Repertory Theater in Providence, Rhode Island, American Place Theater in New York, and other…

“Our Town” at Our School

Ned Rorem’s Our Town, the opera based on the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, opens in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre tonight and runs through the weekend. Eastman Opera Theatre’s production is the first in upstate New York since the opera’s professional debut at the Lake George Opera in July of 2006. Wilder’s…

Cello Joins Organ in Concert at Memorial Art Gallery

The Third Thursday Concert with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ series will feature “Organ and Cello” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 16, at the Memorial Art Gallery. Students from the Eastman School of Music will present works by Bach, Frescobaldi, Gabrielli, Geminiani, Pasquini, and Vivaldi. Performers include Glenna Curren and Matt Zucker, who will play baroque…

Eastman News Highlights April 6, 2015

(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.) Breaking Boxes SoundExChange (City Newspaper 04/01/2015) At its very core, Sound ExChange is a group of seven young Eastman graduates who are looking for new ways…