Eastman’s School Historian, Vincent Lenti, recently published the third volume of his history of our school. In this excerpt from Nurturing the Love of Music: Robert Freeman and the Eastman School of Music (Meliora Press), Dr. Lenti sums the extent of Freeman’s ideas and influence, which profoundly changed the school’s faculty, administration, and campus,…
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About EROI 2012 EROI festival concert at Christ Church. Craighead Saunders Organ at Christ Church. Quick LinksOrgan, Sacred Music & Historical Keyboards Organ Study Audition Repertoire Harpsichord Study Sacred Music Study Instruments Events Current Students Files for Current Students Alumni Departments Main When the Eastman School of Music opened its doors in 1921, it housed…
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The most recent addition to Eastman’s collection of keyboard instruments is a 19th-century pédalier by the Belgian firm Derdeyn. While having some original repertoire (for example, pieces by Robert Schumann and Eugene Gigout), the pedal piano was an important practice instrument in the 19th century. While the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Ste-Clotilde, Paris, was being constructed…
Eastman owns a fine art harmonium built by the French firm Mustel, something of a Rolls-Royce of 19th-century harmonium builders: while rival firms produced hundreds of instruments per year, Mustel typically produced less than a dozen. There is a significant amount of repertoire from fin-de-siècle France specifically for the harmonium, and practicing works for organ…
The following harpsichords are owned by Eastman, and are available for regular use by students: A two-manual harpsichord by William Dowd, patterned after instruments by the 18th century German harpsichord maker Michael Mietke. A single-manual harpsichord by Anderson Dupree, restored by Kevin Spindler, built according to the tradition of the Ruckers family in the early…
George Eastman’s Aeolian pipe organ Opus 1416 completed in 1917 had 132 ranks of pipes, 49 of which were in the string family. The console has four keyboards, pedalboard, four volume control pedals and a crescendo pedal, percussion section, and a Duo-art paper roll player mechanism to control it all. The pipes of the organ…
In 1978 the Rochester Theatre Organ Society installed Wurlitzer opus 1492 in the 401-seat Eisenhart Auditorium located on the campus of the Rochester Museum and Science Center. This instrument began life as a Style E Special, originally installed in the Capitol Theater in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was dedicated and presented to the RMSC on Columbus…
The Auditorium Theatre houses the 4-manual, 23-rank RTOS-Grierson organ. This world-famous instrument was rehoused from the RKO Palace Theater, built in 1928, just before that luxurious, 3000 seat movie house fell to the wrecking ball of urban renewal. Wurlitzer opus 1951 was a 21 rank Special, designed by the RKO Palace organist Tom Grierson. A…