Opera Version of Classic American Play ‘Our Town’ Presented at Eastman School of Music
Ned Rorem’s opera treatment of Our Town, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Thornton Wilder, will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre April 9 through 12 in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production is the first in upstate New York since the opera’s professional debut at the Lake George Opera in July 2006. Wilder’s…
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Eastman School of Music Appoints James C. Doser as Director of its Institute for Music Leadership
ROCHESTER, N.Y.–James C. Doser, an award-winning educator and administrator, musician, and businessman, has been named Director of the Eastman School of Music’s Institute for Music Leadership. He will be responsible for overseeing all Institute activities and programs, including the Catherine Filene Shouse Arts Leadership Program, the Paul R. Judy Center for Applied Research, the Center…
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Eastman Alumna and Faculty Member Celebrate American Women Composers
Unto Thee I Burn: Song Settings of E.E. Cummings Poetry by North American Woman Composers is the title of a new CD being released by Presidential Scholar and Eastman alumna Eileen Strempel (BM’89) and Assistant Professor of Chamber music/ Accompanying and Director of Summer@Eastman Sylvie Beaudette (DMA’93). It combines the inspiring poems of E.E. Cummings…
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