The Eastman School of Music’s Eastman Chamber Jazz will perform arrangements by pianist, composer, and bandleader Gil Evans that have not been heard in more than five decades on Thursday, Feb. 17, at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. The program features Evans’s arrangements from the Claude Thornhill Orchestra that have not been performed in 50-plus…
A film and music festival program in Berlin put the spotlight on composers and musicians from the Eastman School of Music. “Old Films and New Music,” presented by the Kurt Weill Festival, featured little-known short films from the 1920s and 1930s by Bauhaus master and avant-garde artist László Moholy-Nagy. The music accompanying the works was…
Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania, will present a paper on “Diversity Is, Diversity Ain’t: Multiculturalism and Teaching in a Post-Disciplinary Music Academy” at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 3, in Room 404 of the Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music. The event, which is sponsored by…
Hector Del Curto’s Eternal Tango will sweep Kilbourn Hall audience members away to Argentina with the dramatic, romantic, and compelling sounds of tango as the World Music Series at Eastman School of Music continues on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Praised as “superb in their powerful and dynamic rendition” in performance, Eternal Tango has…
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno has tapped Eastman School of Music student David Aguila to reveal for the first time ever to a national audience a talent he’s developed alongside his musical ability. On Wednesday, Jan. 26, Aguila will surprise viewers with a skill he’s honed but kept hidden. He’ll appear in a segment…
During the 2009-2010 academic year, Eastman School of Music faculty and students, members of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and guest musicians helped to raise $575 and 781 pounds of food for Rochester’s Foodlink as part of a new benefit concert series titled “If Music Be the Food . . .” The first performance in the…
The continuing series of monthly “Eastman at St. Michael’s” recitals will feature a variety of music, from concerts for woodwinds, violins, and organ to sacred choral masterpieces. Presented in historic St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church by vocal and instrumental performance majors from the Eastman School of Music, upcoming concerts include a narrated presentation of Prokofiev’s…
Renée Fleming, the world’s most sought-after and beloved soprano, will be returning to her hometown and alma mater to perform with the Eastman Philharmonia under the direction of Neil Varon in a benefit concert for the Renée Fleming Endowed Scholarship Fund at the Eastman School of Music. “Renée Fleming’s performance at our official gala to…
A day-long series of concerts at the Eastman School of Music will highlight the opportunities and advantages for musicians of all ages and skill levels to perform or play together. The recitals, which start at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 22, mark the International Day of Collaborative Music, part of a year-long project by the…
Graham Johnson, one of world’s leading vocal accompanists, will be in-residence at the Eastman School of Music on Tuesday, Jan. 11, and Wednesday, Jan.12, 2011, for several events in the School’s new Hatch Recital Hall. The events include a lecture on accompaniment, and master classes in French and German art songs. Johnson’s residency is sponsored…