On Friday, April 29, 2016, the Eastman School of Music will host a colloquium and concert honoring the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Milton Babbitt. Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) was one of the most extraordinary American composers and musical thinkers of the twentieth century. According to Professor of Theory Zachary Bernstein, “Babbitt was a…
By Andrew Psarris Collaboration is one of the greatest gifts of playing music. Eastman’s viola and composition studios have teamed up because of it. Recently the two studios performed a collaborative concert in which composition majors wrote pieces for their peers in the viola department, as a follow-up to a similar successful concert in spring…
One of the greatest works in the repertoire for chorus and orchestra, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s A Sea Symphony, will be presented by forces from the Eastman School of Music on Friday, April 29 at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The immense work brings together the Eastman-Rochester Chorus, Eastman Chorale, and Eastman Philharmonia,…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will present the final concert of its seventh season on Monday, May 2, 2016 at 7:30 p.m. at St Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Road (at East Avenue) in Rochester. “If Music Be the Food…” is a grass roots community project whose mission is to increase awareness…
By Tahlia Cott The new student organization Eastman Americana is excited to present its special spring semester event, 10 String Symphony. Rachel Baiman and Christian Sedelmyer, two veterans of the Nashville music scene, take the influences of traditional American music and add their own spin. Baiman, a former Illinois state fiddle champion, and Sedelmyer, a…
By John Fatuzzo The Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro next week at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles and a full orchestra. The performances will feature two rotating casts of Eastman School of Music undergraduate and graduate students. Performance dates…
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.) UR bassist Tyrone Allen to perform as Rochester Links Scholarship Award winner (Gates-Chili Post 03/28/2016) University of Rochester student and bassist Tyrone…
