Holly Watkins, associate professor of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been awarded a 2014-2015 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship to support work on her new book, Echoes of the Nonhuman: Organicism, Biology, and Musical Aesthetics from the Enlightenment to the Present. One of only 65 scholars from…
“If Music Be the Food…”, a concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will conclude its fifth season with an exciting program of music on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd., Rochester. The concert will open with Eastman School of Music Professor of Harp, Kathleen Bride, and St. Paul’s…
Dariusz Terefenko, associate professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has published Jazz Theory: From Basic to Advanced Study. Accompanied by a DVD and a companion website, the comprehensive 490-page textbook is designed for use in the classroom or at home by individual musicians. As a…
Works by Jewish composers who died in or survived the atrocities of World War II will be performed by Eastman School of Music faculty and students in a concert to mark Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) on Sunday, April 27. Titled “A Time to Remember . . .”, the concert was spearheaded and organized by…
A landmark silent film will be accompanied by live musical improvisation in a program presented by Eastman School of Music musicians and Christ Church Schola Cantorum at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 10, at Christ Church. Produced in France in 1928, The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc) was directed by Carl…
Twelve students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in a concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, April 23. Their performance is part of the Conservatory Project, a series that showcases outstanding young musicians from around the country. The event presents talented artists in classical…
Violinist Carmen Lavada Johnson-Pájaro, this year’s recipient of the annual scholarship awarded by the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated, to an Eastman School of Music student, will present a recital at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 13, in Kilbourn Hall. The award, a cooperative effort between the Rochester, New York Chapter, The Links, Incorporated,…
A concert program of animated short films with music written and performed by Eastman School of Music students and faculty will be presented at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 5, in Room 415 (rehearsal room) in the Eastman East Wing. “Im-Pulse Image Percussion” features the Eastman Percussion Ensemble and Professor of Percussion Michael Burritt performing new…
Two Eastman School of Music graduates, Natalie Ballenger and Diana Rose Becker, are among the 14 singer-actors in the finals of the 2014 Lotte Lenya Competition, which will be held on Saturday, April 12, in Eastman’s Kilbourn Hall. They will compete for top prizes of $15,000, $10,000, and $7,500 in front of judges Rob Berman,…
Robert Haskins, Associate Professor of Musicology and Graduate Program Coordinator in the Department of Music at the University of New Hampshire, will deliver the last of the John Cage Centennial Lectures of the Eastman School of Music on Thursday, April 18. Titled “John Cage and Zen: What Did He Know, When Did He Know It,…