Eastman News Highlights April 18, 2016

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.) Pittsburgh native, Google to launch digital Martha Graham archives (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 04/17/2016) By the 1920s, she was in New York City dancing…

“THE PHYSICAL REALITY OF BEING HUMAN”: Monica Dale discusses music and Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher Monica Dale by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator “Pity the musicians; they never get to dance.” One of the central paradoxes of being a performing musician is the fact that so often, while playing, we experience our performance almost abstractly, as a collection of mechanical processes in our brains, hands, and vocal…

Announcing the 2016-2017 Series Concerts

EASTMAN PRESENTS 2016-2017 (All at 8:00 PM in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre)  Thursday, September 29, 2016 Break of Reality Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Kelli O’Hara Saturday, November 12, 2016 Eastman Philharmonia Neil Varon, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano Program: Ravel:  Rapsodie espagnole Kevin Puts: World Premiere Prokofiev:  Symphony No. 5 Monday, December 12, 2016 In War & Peace:…