Opera Director Francesca Zambello to Deliver Eastman’s Glenn E. Watkins Lecture
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera and artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Opera, will give the Eastman School of Music’s 2014 Glenn E. Watkins Lecture on Friday, Oct. 3, at 3 p.m. in the school’s Hatch Recital Hall. Zambello’s lecture, titled “Show Business: Popular Culture vs. Art,” will be followed…
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New “Tuesday Pipes” Concert Series Connects Eastman Students with Rochester Community
The Eastman Organ Department introduces a new concert series titled “Tuesday Pipes,” which begins Oct. 7 at 12:10 p.m. Performances will be held at Christ Church in downtown Rochester, recurring weekly during the Tuesday lunch hour. Events are free and open to the general public. Each concert will run for approximately 25 minutes and showcase…
DetailsEastman News Highlights September 22, 2014
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.) Classical music crisis: Author says schools today aren’t building audiences (Pittsburgh Tribune Review © 09/15/2014) In his new book “The Crisis of Classical Music in America,…
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Eastman Wind Ensemble Celebrates André Previn with World Premiere
A new work by André Previn, the celebrated conductor, composer, pianist, and Oscar and Grammy winner, will receive its world premiere in a concert by the Eastman Wind Ensemble at 8 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Under conductor Mark Davis Scatterday, the ensemble will perform Music for…
DetailsRenowned Daegum Flutist in Residence
How much do you know about traditional Korean music? If your answer is nothing, everything, or anything in between, you are in luck. Renowned daegum flutist Jang Hyun Won is in residence at the Eastman School today, September 18. The daegum is a traditional Korean wooden flute,made from bamboo, widely used in folk…
DetailsHow Many Colleges Should Music Students Apply To?
As high school seniors are getting their applications underway (or at least thinking about getting started!) a question often comes up: how many schools should I apply to? What is the right number for your “short list”? The answer to this question is as individual as each student, but I would like to offer some…
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Opera Music, Comic Book Art Tell Story of Salomé’s Dance
To most of us, Salomé is a salacious symbol of sexual excess. But that wasn’t always the case. A striking new production combines the illustrations of famed comic-book artist P. Craig Russell with music to tell the biblical story of a beautiful and sensuous young dancer. Russell’s evocative graphic novel, based on Richard Strauss’s opera Salomé,…
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