Eastman Journal: Page 40
Eastman Concert Tickets Available Today!
September 2, 2014Single tickets for all Eastman concerts go on sale today, September 2 at 10 a.m. at the Eastman School Box Office in the East Wing, 433 East Main Street. And our Faculty Artist Series begins tomorrow evening, September 3, with a recital by Professor of Guitar Nicholas Goluses. The faculty artists lineup continues for six […]
Read More...“C” You in September
August 29, 2014Grade schools used to talk of teaching the Three Rs: reading, (w)riting, and ‘rithmetic. For the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year at Eastman, talking about the Three Cs might be more appropriate. On this coming Tuesday, September 2, the following “C”s will be prominent: CLASSES. International, freshman, and returning students are all here and […]
Read More...The Next Stage for A Soprano
July 25, 2014Soprano Renee Fleming (MM ’83) has performed on plenty of stages across the world, but always to musical accompaniment. Last week she took a vacation from the worlds of concerts and opera to make her dramatic debut in a new comedy, Living on Love, which premiered at the Williamstown (MA) Theater Festival on July 16. […]
Read More...Saturday Morning Serenades at Eastman this Fall
July 18, 2014A touch of fall in our July weather helps to bring thoughts of chamber music to Eastman. Our popular Morning Chamber Music series will help start our fall 2014 semester with a line up of beautiful but rarely-heard masterworks by Beethoven, Dvorak, and others, The series begins on September 20 with the Eastman Brass playing […]
Read More...Kodak Moment #160
July 11, 2014This Saturday is a true Kodak Moment: the 160th birthday of George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, the Eastman School of Music (of course), and many other great things about Rochester, who was born July 12, 1854 — not in Rochester, but near Utica, New York. You can read a biography (with plenty […]
Read More...A Never-Ending Song
July 10, 2014One of the legendary teachers and performers in Eastman’s history, the great American mezzo-soprano Jan DeGaetani, was born on this day in 1933. When she came to Eastman in 1975, DeGaetani was highly regarded as an interpreter of contemporary music, including masterworks by Schoenberg, Varese, Carter, and Crumb. By the time of her death […]
Read More...Sound Off for Frederick Fennell’s Centenary!
July 2, 2014We wish a rousing 100th anniversary to Frederick Fennell (1914-2004), the founder of the Eastman Wind Ensemble, who was born 100 years ago today. A birthday so close to July 4 is very appropriate for a conductor who performed great services for American music and American composers through his concerts and recordings, which range […]
Read More...Happy Birthday, Igor!
June 17, 2014Today is the 132nd birthday of one of the greatest 20th-century composers, Igor Stravinsky. Besides being one of the greatest composers, he was one of the most-traveled, living in pre-Soviet Russia, in Paris, and in the United States and traveling just about everywhere else in the world as a guest composer, pianist, and conductor. In […]
Read More...Eastman’s Dett to Carnegie Hall
May 12, 2014Large-scale, rediscovered works by two composers with ties to Eastman were performed in Carnegie Hall’s recent (and unfortunately its last) “Spring for Music” Festival, dedicated to innovative concerts by North American orchestras. Last Tuesday night, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastman Rochester Chorus, Bach Children’s Chorus of Nazareth College, and many soloists – about 250 performers […]
Read More...Puritans invade Carnegie Hall
May 7, 2014The vengeful Puritans of Howard Hanson’s opera Merry Mount — as embodied by the Eastman-Rochester Chorus — take the stage of Carnegie Hall tonight, along with soloists,the Nazareth Bach Children’s Chorus, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, all led by Michael Christie. (They shown here in last month’s performance in Kodak Hall.) Merry Mount is […]
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