Anna Kaskas Lokot (1909-1998), professor emerita, received a performer’s degree in voice with honors from the Hartford Conservatory of Music in 1931. Shortly after graduation, she received a two-year grant from the Lithuanian government to study and perform in Rome, Milan, Genoa, and Nice. Almost immediately upon her return to the United States in 1936,…
Abram Loft, distinguished professor emeritus of chamber music, served as chair of the string department and professor of chamber music at Eastman from 1979 until his retirement in 1986. A violinist and violist, he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees at Columbia University (Ph.D., musicology), where he taught music history from 1946 to 1954. He also…
Flora Burton Larson Eck (1907-1996) was dean of students at Eastman for 26 years. Appointed in 1946, she also was the supervisor for the women’s residences and taught psychology at the School. She was actively involved with the Association of American University Women, the Four Seasons Arts Council, and the Hendersonville (NC) Symphony Orchestra. “Flora…
Max Landow (1877-1960) was invited to join the piano faculty of the Eastman School in 1922 by George Eastman himself. He enjoyed an international reputation as a virtuosic recitalist and an impressive teacher. Mr. Landow was born and educated in Germany and taught at the Stern Conservatorium in Berlin before coming to the United States…
During her high school years in her native Rochester, Jessie Kneisel (1904–1992) “fell in love” with the poetry of German writer Joseph van Eichendorff and the musical settings Robert Schumann composed for it. That interest became the springboard for her lifelong vocation. Upon earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Rochester in German…
Donald Hunsberger’s attention to musical expression and detail long distinguished his approach to music of America’s past, as well as to music of today. From 1962 until his retirement in 2002, he served as professor of conducting and ensembles at Eastman. During his 37 years as conductor of the School’s acclaimed Eastman Wind Ensemble, Dr.…
Julius Huehn (1908-1971), professor of voice and chair of the voice department at the Eastman School of Music from 1952 to 1971, studied at the Carnegie Institute and Juilliard. Mr. Huehn made his Metropolitan Opera debut in 1935, and performed regularly with them until enlisting in the United States Marine Corps in 1942, where he…
A native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Sydney Hodkinson received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastman and continued his studies at the Princeton Seminars. He received his doctor of musical arts degree from the University of Michigan in 1968. Before returning to Eastman as a faculty member in 1973, Dr. Hodkinson taught at the universities of Virginia,…
Stanley Hasty, professor emeritus of clarinet, was born in 1920, graduated from Eastman in 1941, and joined the Eastman faculty in 1955. He also joined the Rochester Philharmonic at that time. Before coming to Rochester, he served as principal clarinet for the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Baltimore…
English-American conductor Guy Fraser Harrison (1894-1986) served on the Eastman organ and opera faculties from 1922 until 1925. Born in Guilford, England, he began his musical studies at the age of eight as a choirboy at Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where he also studied piano, theory, and counterpoint, and won a coveted scholarship for organ…