By Kameron Ghanavati Massenet’s Cendrillon is coming together quickly here at Eastman. Stage assistants, costume designers, lighting designers, singers, the orchestra, and opera staff are hard at work preparing for the upcoming two-week marathon of technical rehearsals. The process, however, has been ongoing since rehearsals began in December. At that point, the creative process was…
The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio, which after four decades of success around the world has set the standard for piano trio performance, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music on Monday, April 17, and Tuesday, April 18. The renowned trio, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary year during the 2016-2017 season, is this year’s…
The Roto-Twist, an “intriguing object” in the Eastman Mobile Acousmonium. All photographs by Oliver Schneller. By Erik Elmgren The Eastman Audio Research Center, formerly the Eastman Computer Music Center, has been pushing the boundaries of electroacoustic music study since their rebranding earlier this year. Their next project, the “Eastman Mobile Acousmonium” or EMA for short,…
Eastman School of Music faculty members, students, and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah by performing a Holocaust Remembrance Concert at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, April 23, in Kilbourn Hall. Titled “A Time to Remember . . .”, the concert features music written by those who perished or survived the World War II…
Eastman Cello Institute faculty: Alan Harris, Kathleen Kemp, Cora Swenson Lee by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Distinguished Professor Alan Harris knows a thing or two about longevity at the cello: he has been performing and teaching at celebrated universities and music festivals virtually non-stop since 1959. He first arrived at Eastman in 1965, performing…
Eastman Opera Theatre’s spring production is something of a rarity: Cendrillon, a retelling of the Cinderella story by Jules Massenet. This opera by the popular composer of Manon and Werther was a great success at its 1899 premiere, but gradually fell out of the repertoire. In recent years it has made a comeback; the Metropolitan…
UPDATE: The Evening Concert at 8 p.m. will be available to view via live stream: https://www.esm.rochester.edu/live/ . Streaming begins approximately 15 minutes before the start of the concert. Fourteen versatile singer-actors from Israel, France, Mexico, Canada, and across the United States are coming to the Eastman School of Music to compete in the finals…
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.) Contemporary composer: August Read Thomas (Gramophone 03/20/2017) . . . This leads on to the criticism – disguised as observation – that her music is…
We have several EDDI sponsored artists coming to Eastman this semester. Here is a break down of what we have to look forward to: Mieko Kanno, violinist and music theorist Monday April 3rd, 3:30pm Hatch Hall – Public Lecture “Quiet is Beautiful” Thursday April…
March 21 is the International Day for the Elimination for Racial Discrimination. This year the University of Rochester’s “We’re Better Than That” committee held a meeting in Ciminelli Lounge to discuss the committee’s mission, goals, resources, and future plans and the Eastman community came together to show their support: