CONTINUING THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM WARFIELD

Rochester, NY — The late, internationally acclaimed vocalist William Warfield will leave a lasting local legacy, thanks in part to Rochester’s William Warfield Scholarship Fund. Since it was founded in 1977, the Fund has awarded more than 30 scholarships to talented and deserving voice students at the Eastman School of Music. “The Fund is also…

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EASTMAN PRESENTS RARELY-PERFORMED MASTERPIECE:

Rochester, NY — Approximately 150 years after he completed it, Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s “Faust” will finally get its Rochester premiere on Friday, December 9 at 8 p.m. in the Eastman Theatre. Under the direction of William Weinert, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra will join in presenting this monument of…

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EMANUEL AX OPENS EASTMAN’S GRAND PIANISTS SERIES

Rochester, NY — Many of the 20th century’s greatest pianists appeared in recital in the Eastman Theatre, including Rachmaninoff, Horowitz and Serkin. With the Theatre’s magnificent new concert shell and vastly improved acoustics, it was time for the Eastman School of Music to renew this great tradition with three contemporary keyboard superstars. Emanuel Ax opens…

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