Eastman News Highlights June 6, 2016

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.) Smokies Hosts Music in the American Wild Events (Sevier News Messenger 06/04/2016) Great Smoky Mountains National Park invites the public to celebrate the National Park…

Food for “Improvisation-Hungry Musicians”: Johnandrew Slominski Talks about Classical Music on the Spot

by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Members of the 2015 Classical Music on the Spot class, with instructors Gilad Rabinovitch (wearing a blue shirt) and Johnandrew Slominski (wearing a tie), both in the back row Eastman Assistant Professor of Theory Johnandrew Slominski is the creator and director of one of Summer@Eastman’s most unusual offerings, Classical…

Roger Freitas of Eastman School of Music Elected to American Musicological Society Board

Roger Freitas, associate professor and chair of musicology at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, has been elected a director-at-large of the American Musicological Society for a two-year term beginning this fall.   The society advances scholarship in the various fields of music through research, learning, and teaching.  It is governed by a membership-elected…

Eastman News Highlights May 23, 2016

Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Sound Bites: Gregory Spears (Opera News  June 2016)  Gregory Spears’s new opera, Fellow Travelers, which opens at Cincinnati Opera on June 17,…