The benefit concert series “If Music Be the Food⊔ will open its third season with a concert at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs Street (at East Avenue) in Rochester, on Sunday evening, November 20, at 7:30 PM. The concert series involves Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and…
Eastman School of Music faculty member Rachel Remmel has been awarded a research grant of $31,920 from the Spencer Foundation and will spend the 2011-2012 academic year writing a book that explains the architectural origins of the graded school model that is used in most American schools today. She will spend time in Boston, Philadelphia,…
Eight Eastman School of Music voice and opera students will compete in the finals of the Friends of Eastman (FEO) Opera Voice Competition at 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, in Kilbourn Hall. The FEO event gives local audiences the opportunity to hear rising vocal talents early in their careers while providing singers the chance to compete…
The Eastman School of Music, in conjunction with Ithaca College and The Juilliard School, is presenting the sixth annual Music College Fair in Upstate New York at the Eastman School on Thursday, Nov. 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. Top colleges from around the country will have representatives throughout two connected locations at Eastman, the…
What do a church organist and jazz pianist Dave Brubeck have in common? They both improvise at the keyboard. In fact, according to David Higgs of the Eastman School of Music, the organ is the only instrument that has maintained improvisation throughout centuries of music history. “Much of the music that we think of today…
Assassins, Stephen Sondheimâs provocative and disturbing take on the American Dream, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre November 3 through 6 in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. In depicting the thoughts of nine individuals who killed or tried to kill U.S. Presidents, the musical contrasts the assassinsâ claims of righting wrongs…
John Marcellus, professor of trombone at the Eastman School of Music, was named winner of the 2011 ITA Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2011 Neill Humfeld Award by the International Trombone Association. The first recognizes distinguished contributions to the trombone profession and the latter recognizes outstanding trombone teaching. Â The ITA previously recognized Marcellus in 1999…
The Grammy Award-winning Parker Quartet will present the opening concert of the 2011-2012 Eastman-Ranlet Series on Sunday, Oct. 16, at 3 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. The ensembleâs program will include Debussyâs String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 10, Janacekâs String Quartet No. 2 âIntimate Letters,â and Brahmâs String Quartet…
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Gunther Schuller, the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation grant and a transformative figure in 20th century music, will be in Rochester this month for the publication of his memoirs. His visit will include an interview, free and open to the public, with Eastman School of Music Dean Douglas Lowry about his life…