Medieval Music Complements Medieval Art

A concert of music from the Middle Ages will provide a preview of the enhanced experience that visitors to the Memorial Art Gallery’s Medieval Gallery will enjoy later this year. “Echoes of the Middle Ages,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13, in the Gallery’s Fountain Court, features a selection of medieval songs that have been…

Still a Musical Force

  During Black History Month, we’ll remember some of the African American composers and musicians who are part of Eastman history. One of the most prominent and respected was William Grant Still (1895-1978), often called “The Dean of African American Composers”; among his many accomplishments, he was the first black American composer to have a…

A Towering Creation

  Tonight the Eastman Rochester Chorus presents one of the most inspired and best-loved works in the choral literature, Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Creation. The performance brings together not only the chorus, whose members are drawn from Eastman, the University of Rochester, and the Rochester community, but also five student soloists performing the solo parts,…