Roger Freitas, associate professor and chair of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been elected a director-at-large of the American Musicological Society for a two-year term beginning this fall. The society advances scholarship in the various fields of music through research, learning, and teaching. It is governed by a membership-elected…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Sound Bites: Gregory Spears (Opera News June 2016) Gregory Spears’s new opera, Fellow Travelers, which opens at Cincinnati Opera on June 17,…
The Eastman School of Music and the Gateways Music Festival, which have partnered since 1995, announced today a new alliance that strengthens the organizations’ efforts to promote and increase diversity in the field of classical music. The six-day biennial summer festival is now “The Gateways Music Festival in association with the Eastman School of Music.”…
