Prokofiev at War, by Barry Snyder

Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev, 1934 This weekend, Eastman professor Barry Snyder will be giving a once-in-a-lifetime performance of three incredibly powerful sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev. These sonatas contain some of Prokofiev’s most dissonant music for the piano. The composer’s biographer Daniel Jaffe has argued that Prokofiev, “having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of…

Eastman News Highlights March 23, 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.) Eastman School of Music presents Cahill Smith in Review (New York Concert Review Inc. 03/14/2015) Eastman School of Music, one of the country’s leading conservatories, under…

Eastman Takes Bach to Hart’s

Tomorrow Eastman celebrates the 330th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach by bringing this great composer’s music to the community. Starting at 10:30 a.m. and continuing until about 12:30 p.m., Eastman students will perform Bach masterpieces at Hart’s Local Grocers at 10 Winthrop Street, including two of the Brandenburg Concertos and other chamber pieces. Downtown Rochesterians…