Rumors of a meeting between the Beatles and Karlheinz Stockhausen – icons of 1960s rock and avant-garde composition, respectively – are untrue, even though Stockhausen appears on the cover of the group’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album and the composer’s Hymnen echoes in John Lennon’s Revolution 9. But the idea of the-meeting-that-never-was is…
Thirteen students have been chosen to represent the Eastman School of Music in the prestigious Conservatory Project at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, Feb. 12. The Conservatory Project is designed to present the best young musical artists in classical, jazz, musical theater, opera and more from…
Ten voice and opera students from the Eastman School of Music will compete in the finals of the Friends of Eastman (FEO) Opera Voice Competition at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, in Kilbourn Hall. The annual event, which is free and open to the public, gives local audiences the opportunity to hear rising vocal talents…
Soprano Helen Donath, whose distinguished career spans more than five decades and continues to elicit critical acclaim, will join the Eastman School of Music’s Philharmonia, under conductor Neil Varon, for a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. Donath, who just gave a recital…
Eastman School of Music alumni speakers and performers will pay tribute to legendary faculty organist David Craighead in a progressive recital scheduled on Friday, Feb. 1. Performances will be presented on the two instruments that bear his name at 6 p.m. at Christ Church, 141 East Ave., and at 8 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal…
If Music Be the Food…” , a concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will continue its fourth season with an exciting program of music celebrating the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, on Sunday, January 27, 2013, at 7:30 PM, at Third Presbyterian Church, 4 Meigs St., Rochester. The mission of “If Music Be the Food…” is…
The Eastman School of Music is pleased to announce two new faculty appointments to the Department of Organ and Historical Keyboards: Edoardo Bellotti, Associate Professor of Organ, Harpsichord, and Improvisation; and Nathan Laube, Assistant Professor of Organ (part-time). David Higgs, Professor of Organ and Chair of the Department of Organ and Historical Keyboards, said, “We…
When the Eastman Wind Ensemble takes to the Kodak Hall stage at 8 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 8, they’ll present a program that includes works by Mozart and Stravinsky. It’s a link to the ensemble’s beginnings six decades ago: a 1951 concert, featuring Stravinsky, which gave birth to the wind ensemble idea, and its 1953…
Four Eastman School of Music student musicians will become part of a historic event when they perform at the Presidential Inaugural Luncheon on Monday, Jan. 21. Violinists Che Ho Lam and Markiyan Melnychenko, violist Kelsey Farr, and cellist Hyeok Kwon were selected after a School audition process to represent Eastman during inaugural activities at the…