For the fifth time since 1992, Eastman School of Music Professor of Musicology Ralph P. Locke has won an ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in music writing. The award is presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. The new honor cites his article “Liszt on the Artist in Society,” which…
After just one year in existence, the Eastman School of Music Clarinet Choir is getting invitations and going on the road. On Sunday, Oct. 28, the 15-member ensemble travels to Buffalo to perform as part of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s Community Night Concert Series. The Eastman students will warm up the audience with Rossini’s “Italian…
The performance of one of his own works will highlight the inaugural ceremony marking the investiture of Douglas Lowry as Dean of the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. The ceremony, at 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 27, in Eastman Theatre, will also feature the presentation of the honorary degree Doctor of Music…
Concerts, lectures, and a tour of locally historic St. Michael’s Church highlight a four-day festival devoted to the life and work of Alfred Mann, the late Eastman School of Music professor and world-renowned scholar of Baroque choral music and the history of music theory. A collaboration of the Eastman School of Music and Publick Musick,…
Renowned Rochester musician Mitzie Collins, a member of the faculty of the Eastman Community Music School, has been named the recipient of the 2007 Artist Award for Music by the Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester. A performer of Celtic and traditional American folk music, Collins is known nationally and internationally as a virtuoso…
Eastman Opera Theatre brings Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music to the Kilbourn Hall stage for four performances beginning Thursday, Nov. 1. The musical, which won six Tony Awards and ran for 601 performances on Broadway, includes Sondheim’s most famous song, “Send in the Clowns.” Performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 1,…
A collaboration involving Tony Award-winning choreographer Garth Fagan and musicians from the Eastman School of Music will result in the inaugural preview of a University of Rochester-commissioned dance work this month. Set to a score by Eastman faculty member and composer Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and choreographed by Fagan, the piece, titled EDGE/JOY, will receive its first…
The Ying Quartet and the Turtle Island String Quartet will bring a “live version” of their Grammy Award-winning recording 4 + Four to the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17. Each group will perform by itself and then join for the second half of the concert. The Ying Quartet…
Seventeen artists from Central Asia will showcase the diverse musical traditions of their countries at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, in Kilbourn Hall as part of the Eastman School of Music’s World Music Series. “Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia: Nomads, Mystics, and Troubadours” will include vocal and instrumental music from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Qaraqalpakstan;…
Music teachers always end the school year with recitals by their students. Faculty members from the Eastman Community Music School are helping to get the school year rolling with a recital of their own. A dozen faculty will perform at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, in Kilbourn Hall. “A recital like this is a great…