ROCHESTER, NY – A postage stamp is causing a lot of commotion at the Eastman School of Music. A special ceremony celebrating the "Rochester premiere" of a new U.S. postage stamp – based on Maxfield Parrish’s famous painting Interlude, which has graced Eastman Theatre since its opening in 1922 – will be held at 11…
Rochester, NY – Henry Fogel, who has led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra through more than a decade of successful expansion and initiatives, will be the next presenter in the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program Guest Speaker Series at the Eastman School of Music. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, takes…
ROCHESTER, NY – The internationally acclaimed Tokyo String Quartet, which has performed on most of the world’s stages and has received seven Grammy nominations, will perform in concert at 3 p.m., Sunday, February 4, in the Hochstein Performance Hall at the Hochstein Music School (50 N. Plymouth Ave.). The concert, featuring the works of Mozart,…
ROCHESTER, NY – It’s been a rewarding semester for Eastman School of Music student composer Todd Coleman: Since September, the 29-year-old doctoral student has received a substantial commission and won an online composition competition – resulting in a total of $8,000. In September, Coleman was one of eight composers from around the country who received…
ROCHESTER, NY – The award-winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble will give local audiences a preview of its upcoming New York City concert performance at the 2001 International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Conference at 8 p.m., Friday, December 1, in Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). The concert is free and open to the public. The Rochester…
Rochester, NY – Rochester audiences will have the chance to gain a firsthand understanding of the history of modern and popular music when Robert Moog – inventor of the first line of electronic music synthesizers – presents a slide lecture at 3:30 p.m., Thursday, November 30, in Room 101 of the Old Sibley Library at…
ROCHESTER, NY – A painting that has graced the Eastman Theatre since its opening soon will be on display for the world to see, thanks to the United States Postal Service. Interlude, a work by the great American artist Maxfield Parrish (1870-1966), is one of only 20 pieces of art that will be reproduced for…
ROCHESTER, NY – Period costumes and narration by local storyteller Jay Stetzer will help bring music from plainchant to modern-day jazz to life in the next "Musical Elevenses" concert, to be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, November 18, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). This innovative Saturday-morning concert series, now…
ROCHESTER, NY – Brooks Smith, professor of piano and accompanying at the Eastman School of Music from 1966-1972 and perhaps the most well known and beloved American pianist-accompanist of his generation, died Tuesday, October 31, 2000, in California after a brief illness. He was 88. Born in McAllen, Texas, in 1912, Smith started his piano…