Eastman School of Music Posts and Musings

“A song for all seas, all ships”: Eastman-Rochester Chorus performs “A Sea Symphony” on April 29

This Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia, all under the school’s Director of Choral Activities, William Weinert, with baritone Alan Cline and soprano Yvonne Trobe, present one of the great works for chorus and orchestra: Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony.…

“THE PHYSICAL REALITY OF BEING HUMAN”: Monica Dale discusses music and Dalcroze Eurhythmics

Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher Monica Dale by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator “Pity the musicians; they never get to dance.” One of the central paradoxes of being a performing musician is the fact that so often, while playing, we experience our performance almost abstractly, as a collection of mechanical processes in our brains, hands, and vocal…

Eastman Americana Presents 10 String Symphony

By Tahlia Cott The new student organization Eastman Americana is excited to present its special spring semester event, 10 String Symphony. Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer, two veterans of the Nashville music scene, take the influences of traditional American music and add their own spin. Baiman, a former Illinois state fiddle champion, and Sedelmyer, a…