Neil Varon conducts Eastman Philharmonia

Exciting Programs from the Eastman Philharmonia & Eastman School Symphony Orchestra for the Remainder of Fall 2022 Semester

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Two of Eastman’s most prestigious orchestras, the Eastman Philharmonia and the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra (ESSO), under the baton of celebrated conductor Neil Varon, present a beautiful series of concerts this fall/winter. With repertoire that ranges from Mendelssohn, Brahms, and Beethoven to the premiere of a very special piece by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Anthony Davis,…

Bethany Brinson MUY
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Brinson, Bethany

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Current Musicology StudentsBethany BrinsonSTUDENT PROFILE Bethany Brinson is a second-year Ph.D. student in musicology at the Eastman School of Music. Her research interests include 20th-century postwar composition and the intersections of mathematics and psychology in motivating experimental approaches to composition. She has participated in intensive learning experiences to support and supplement her research, notably joining…

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Flood, Paul David

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Current Musicology StudentsPaul David FloodSTUDENT PROFILE Paul David Flood (he/him) is a musicologist and Ph.D. Candidate whose research explores intersections of genre, geopolitics, and identity in global popular and avant-garde musics after 1945. His dissertation explores musical performances of diasporic identity in the Eurovision Song Contest, its global spinoffs, and its dedicated spaces. He has…

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Berlin, Lauren

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Current Musicology StudentsLauren BerlinSTUDENT PROFILE Lauren Berlin (she/her) is a Ph.D. candidate in Musicology whose primary research explores the intersections of television music, broadcasting culture, and transnational circulation. Her dissertation examines TV musical variety shows from 1948–1965 as a site for the performance and formation of postwar American identity. She has presented work at annual…

An American Dream Comes True: One Man’s Life in Music, at Eastman and After

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This excerpt from the autobiography of the father of former Eastman School director Robert Freeman was published in Eastman Notes magazine this fall, shortly before Robert Freeman’s death on October 18, 2022, in Austin, Texas. We also offer the story on the Eastman website in tribute to Bob Freeman, who led Eastman from 1973 to…

Opera as Theatre: Anthony Davis on “Lear on the 2nd Floor”

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Confusion, fear, panic, and loneliness are not uncommon emotions in opera. Add to the list aging, family dynamics, manipulation, suffering, madness, foolishness, order, vision, and loyalty, as inspired by the themes and character relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear, and you have a compelling contemporary opera with a distinctly contemporary voice: Lear on the 2nd Floor,…

Wellness at Eastman: Alexander Technique and the Performing Artist

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Wellness at Eastman is a monthly seminar series from Eastman Performing Arts Medicine (EPAM) featuring artists and clinicians speaking to physical and mental wellness for performing artists, inspired by the Healthy Conservatoires movement in Europe.  The next Wellness at Eastman seminar will be on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, at 6 p.m.: Alexander Technique and the Performing Artist, presented…