EASTMAN PRESENTS 2016-2017 (All at 8:00 PM in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre) Thursday, September 29, 2016 Break of Reality Wednesday, October 26, 2016 Kelli O’Hara Saturday, November 12, 2016 Eastman Philharmonia Neil Varon, conductor Renée Fleming, soprano Program: Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole Kevin Puts: World Premiere Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 Monday, December 12, 2016 In War & Peace:…
Eastman’s Third Annual Holocaust Remembrance Concert, “A Time to Remember…”, will take place on May 1, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. This year’s concert, performed by distinguished Eastman faculty members, showcases the music of Erwin Schulhoff, Viktor Ullmann, Robert Kahn, and Leroy Osman, composers who perished in or survived the Holocaust, or who…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Hot Jobs: conductor and music director (Democrat and Chronicle 04/10/2016) Mark Scatterday’s friends, the ones he plays golf with, like to tease…
On Friday, April 29, 2016, the Eastman School of Music will host a colloquium and concert honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Milton Babbitt. Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) was one of the most extraordinary American composers and musical thinkers of the twentieth century. According to Professor of Theory Zachary Bernstein, “Babbitt was a…
One of the greatest works in the repertoire for chorus and orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, will be presented by forces from the Eastman School of Music on Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The immense work brings together the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia,…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will present the final concert of its seventh season on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester. “If Music Be the Food…” is a grass roots community project whose mission is to increase awareness…
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) UR bassist Tyrone Allen to perform as Rochester Links Scholarship Award winner (Gates-Chili Post 03/28/2016) University of Rochester student and bassist Tyrone…
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.) Composer Steve Reich crosses over to pop, for a moment (Democrat and Chronicle 03/22/2016) Reich, who is regarded as one of contemporary minimalist music’s greatest living…
Eastman Opera Theatre is pleased to announce the return of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (“The Marriage of Figaro”) to Eastman Theatre’s Kodak Hall stage in April. Considered as the first major opera masterpiece and a best-loved comic opera, Le Nozze di Figaro is a fast-paced story that revolves around the timeless themes of love…
Niagara Lutheran churches planning celebration of 500th anniversary (Niagara Gazette 03/20/2016) The series will conclude with a speaker event and banquet at St. Paul. Speakers will include Dr. Cameron MacKenzie, Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne Indiana, Dr. Mark Schuler, Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota, Rev. Dr. John Nunes, Concordia College, Bronxville, New York, Dr. Daniel…