Eastman School of Music Posts and Musings
By Andrew Psarris Collaboration is one of the greatest gifts of playing music. Eastman’s viola and composition studios have teamed up because of it. Recently the two studios performed a collaborative concert in which composition majors wrote pieces for their peers in the viola department, as a follow-up to a similar successful concert in spring…
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…
By John Fatuzzo The Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro next week at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles and a full orchestra. The performances will feature two rotating casts of Eastman School of Music undergraduate and graduate students. Performance dates…
Rochesterians have a rare chance to see one of the greatest American composers, and hear some of his most recent music, this evening when the Eastman School hosts Steve Reich in a concert beginning at 8 p.m. in Kilbourn Hall. Eastman Musica Nova under Brad Lubman will be featured in several recent Reich works: the…
By Andrew Psarris This year the Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s perennial favorite Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). (Performance dates and times are listed at the end of this post.) It will be performed by two student casts in alternating performances, with musical direction by Benton Hess and stage direction by…
By John Fatuzzo As an editor and contributor for the Eastman Blog this year, I have enjoyed learning about the success stories of my peers, friends and teachers. Getting the personal account from students who win competitions, alumni who create exciting projects and faculty who prepare masterful performances is truly the highlight of my internship-turned-job…
Eastman students, faculty members, and staff members wearing t-shirts with the message “We’re Better Than That” for the University’s anti-racism campaign on Monday in Lowry Hall. By John Fatuzzo This past Monday, March 21, was recognized by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Taking part in the message of…
On Wednesday, March 23, the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra presents a program of music by two great twentieth-century masters, Bela Bartok and Dmitri Shostakovich. The free concert begins at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The program notes for each of the pieces follow. Bela Bartok (fourth form left) recording Hungarian peasant songs…
Table Top Opera, a chamber ensemble of Eastman faculty members, students, alumni, and friends, will be performing its multi-media adaptation of Gustav Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children) on two occasions this week: Monday, March 21 – 7 p.m. at First Unitarian Church of Rochester (220 S Winton Rd, Rochester) Suggested donation of…