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.) An American Outsider, Part I (National Review, 05/22/2017) The composer George Walker George Walker greets me at the door, smiling and dapper. I figured he…
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.) Sound Bites: Kathryn Lewek / The rising soprano shows off her sparkling high notes as Salzburg’s Ginevra next month (Opera News May 2017) Kathryn Lewek’s unusually…
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.) Remembering Jazz’s Greatest Year With the Living Legends of 1959 (Billboard 05/05/2017) Ron Carter, the most-recorded jazz bassist of all time, never planned to play…
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.) The Joy of Learning to Play an Instrument Later in Life (Wall Street Journal 04/23/2017) There used to be a “widespread belief that if you…
Ron Carter on the Power of the Bass, and the Onstage Moment He’s Been Waiting For (Strings 04/14/2017) When did you transition to jazz? Before I went away to Eastman, my friend who lived down the street put together a little quartet for the summer, playing for fraternity and sorority parties at the University of…
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.) Interview: Theatre Life with Kim Scharnberg and Christopher Youstra (Broadway World 04/14/2-17) Today’s subjects, Kim Scharnberg and Christopher Youstra, are currently living their theatre lives…
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.) Lee Koonce and the Gateways Music Festival (School Band and Orchestra April 2017) Lee Koonce is the president and artistic director for the Gateways Music…
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.) Money cannot measure benefits of the arts to society (Democrat and Chronicle 03/29/2017) When President Lyndon B. Johnson first established the National Endowment for the…
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.) Contemporary composer: August Read Thomas (Gramophone 03/20/2017) . . . This leads on to the criticism – disguised as observation – that her music is…
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.) Baroque Consort to Perform at the St. Charles Public Library (Chicago Tribune / Aurora Beacon-News 03/16/2017) Mark Ponzo holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree…