ROCHESTER, NY ― The distinguished American conductor Walter Hendl, former director of the Eastman School of Music, returns to the School ― and the podium ― to lead the Eastman Philharmonia in its closing concert of the season. Hendl, 88, will guest conduct Eastman’s premier student orchestra in a performance of Rachmaninoff’s powerful Symphony No.…
ROCHESTER, NY — More than half a dozen Eastman School of Music guitarists have garnered multiple competition wins in the 2004-05 season, bringing accolades for themselves and their department. All the winners study with Professor of Guitar Nicholas Goluses, who is understandably proud. “This is an incredible group of young artists — it has been…
ROCHESTER, NY — La Rondine (The Swallow), a splendid yet infrequently staged opera by the great Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, is Eastman Opera Theatre’s spring production — and the first opera to be performed on the newly renovated stage of Eastman Theatre (60 Gibbs St.). The performances, all sung in Italian, will take place at…
ROCHESTER, NY ― Funded by a gift of $1.2 million from the Symphony Orchestra Institute (SOI), the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester has established the Orchestra Musician Forum. The mission of the Forum is to enhance the professional development and broaden the perspectives of symphony orchestra musicians. The first task of…
ROCHESTER, NY ― The music of female composers ― prominent, emerging, and even obscure ― takes center stage later this month as the Eastman School of Music presents a weeklong festival celebrating women in music. The School’s first-ever Women in Music Festival, presented with support from the music publisher Universal Edition, runs March 21-25. It…
ROCHESTER, NY — The Eastman School of Music marks the 10th anniversary of its exemplary “Music For All” program ― a chamber music program designed to take classical music out of the concert hall and into the community ― with more than 100 performances throughout the greater Rochester area in the weeks ahead, featuring more…
ROCHESTER, NY — Ruth Watanabe, librarian of the Eastman School of Music’s Sibley Music Library for nearly four decades and namesake of its extraordinary Special Collections department, died Saturday, February 26, 2005, at The Highlands at Pittsford. She was 88. Born in California on May 16, 1916, Watanabe received a bachelor of music degree in…
ROCHESTER, NY — An Eastman School of Music professor’s new book for teaching the fundamentals of music to “Little Mozarts” has earned a Parents’ Choice Award, a prestigious seal of approval from the Parents’ Choice Foundation — the nation’s oldest not-for-profit evaluator of children’s books, videos, toys, audios, computer software, television, and magazines. Acting Dean…
ROCHESTER, NY — One of the greatest jazz musicians of all time — trumpeter Clark Terry — pays a special visit to the Eastman School of Music later this month. In a rare Rochester appearance, the 84-year-old elder statesman of jazz will perform with the Eastman Jazz Ensemble (conducted by Bill Dobbins), several Eastman faculty…
ROCHESTER, NY — It is fitting that the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the world’s first and arguably most esteemed ensemble of its kind, will pay homage to its late founder, Frederick Fennell, in the prestigious venue of New York’s Carnegie Hall on Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 9 p.m. Dr. Fennell, who founded the Eastman Wind…