Dramatic coloratura soprano Rita Shane, who performed as Queen of the Night more than 250 times and originated the lead in Dominick Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire, died Thursday, October 9, in New York City after a brief and courageous battle with pancreatic and liver cancer. She was 78 years old and was Professor of Voice…
The art of organ accompaniment to silent film will be explored in an upcoming four-day event that includes screenings of several iconic movies from the early 20th century with live accompaniment by internationally known organists. The Organ and Film Festival, presented by the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative and the Film/Music Cluster of the University of…
Paul O’Dette, professor of lute and professor of conducting and ensembles at the Eastman School of Music, is receiving international recognition for the albums My Favorite Dowland and Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphee aux enfers; La Couronne de Fleurs. My Favorite Dowland (Harmonia Mundi, May 2014), O’Dette’s personal selection of works by one of the lute’s…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will open its sixth season with an exciting program of music celebrating the 150th birthday of composer Richard Strauss on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. The concert will open with the String Sextet Overture to…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
Korean musician Jang Hyun Won, a legendary performer on the daegum, or traditional Korean wooden flute, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music Thursday, Sept. 18. Won will give a class about daegum and Korean traditional music from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18,in the Ciminelli Formal Lounge located in…