Eastman Musicians Honor Holocaust Victims with Remembrance Day Concert
On Sunday, April 12, at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall, Eastman School of Music faculty and students will perform works by select Jewish composers to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day). Titled “A Time to Remember . . .” the concert features music written by those who perished or survived the camps, and music written…
Opera Version of Classic American Play ‘Our Town’ Presented at Eastman School of Music
Ned Rorem’s opera treatment of Our Town, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre April 9 through 12 in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production is the first in upstate New York since the opera’s professional debut at the Lake George Opera in July 2006. Wilder’s…
Eastman School of Music Appoints James C. Doser as Director of its Institute for Music Leadership
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–James C. Doser, an award-winning educator and administrator, musician, and businessman, has been named Director of the Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership. He will be responsible for overseeing all Institute activities and programs, including the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program, the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research, the Center…