The Eastman Community Music Schoolâs New Horizons Concert and Symphonic Bands will present a free spring concert at 7 p.m. Monday, May 19, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The 90-minute program will feature Broadway tunes, marches, and popular songs. Works performed by the Concert Band will include a tribute to Elvis Presley, while the…
Music and motion combine in an upcoming performance on the Eastman School of Musicâs Italian Baroque Organ at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in the Fountain Court at the Memorial Art Gallery. Titled âOrgan and the Body,â the program showcases the collaborative work of three choreographers and four musicians, each responding to the artwork and…
Holly Watkins, associate professor of musicology at the University of Rochesterâs 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…
âIf Music Be the FoodâŠâ, a concert series benefiting Rochesterâs Foodlink, will conclude its fifth season with an exciting program of music on Friday, May 9, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paulâs Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd., Rochester. The concert will open with Eastman School of Music Professor of Harp, Kathleen Bride, and St. Paulâs…
Dariusz Terefenko, associate professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the University of Rochesterâs 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 âA Time to Remember . . .â, 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 dâArc) 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-PĂĄjaro, this yearâs 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,…