{"id":17096,"date":"2021-10-25T06:40:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/?p=9795"},"modified":"2024-10-02T10:15:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T14:15:47","slug":"october-25th-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.esm.rochester.edu\/sibley\/2021\/10\/october-25th-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"October 25th-31st: Marian McPartland at Eastman"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Back to This Week at Eastman<\/a><\/p>\n

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It was while Ms. McPartland was fulfilling a six-week engagement at a Rochester venue in the fall of 1972 that Professor Rayburn Wright invited her to teach piano improvisation at Eastman. The Louis Ouzer photographs displayed here capture the unified sense of purpose in the room while Ms. McPartland is at the keyboard, surrounded by the students in rapt attention. In one of the press articles, local writer Cliff Smith offered his favorable observations on her classroom activity at Eastman. In the other article, printed a few weeks earlier, Theodore Price described being in \u201ca corner of heaven\u201d while listening to Ms. McPartland and her colleagues. The venue where she was booked that fall, the Monticello Room at the Rowntowner Motor Inn in Henrietta, was a vibrant center for live music in Rochester in earlier decades. The Monticello Room is pictured (at lower right) on the postcard image displayed here, which was accessed here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u25baPhotos by Louis Ouzer: R1593-26, R1593-28, R1593-29, R1593-32, R1594-13A, R1594-15A, R1594-16A, R1594-18A<\/p>\n

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Marian McPartland \u201ctrying to write a blues,\u201d Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY (1970s). Photograph by Louis Ouzer, from Marian McPartland Collection, Box 28, Folder 2, Sleeve 14.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When visiting Rochester in May, 2002, Ms. McPartland wrote, \u201cRochester is like my second home, and all because of the wonderful Eastman School; I have so many great memories of various performances, and of course, my friend Alec Wilder who introduced me to Eastman and the many fabulous people in it.\u201d By those words she acknowledged Rochester\u2019s Alec Wilder (1907-1980), with whom she enjoyed a long professional collaboration and personal friendship. Mr. Wilder\u2014a native of Rochester and a student at Eastman in the 1920s (did not graduate)\u2014 admired Ms. McPartland\u2019s artistry and wrote numerous solos for her; those compositions are considered some of his best work for keyboard. In particular, he wrote his \u201cJazz Waltz for a Friend\u201d as a tribute to Ms. McPartland in 1974; it was subsequently published by Ambrose Music. The Sibley Music Library holds a manuscript copy of the song that Ms. McPartland gave to Sibley out of her personal collection. Among her innumerable performances of the \u201cJazz Waltz\u201d was a special rendition that she gave at Eastman on February 13th, 1991 during a celebration of Alec Wilder that marked the dedication of the newly named Alec Wilder Reading Room in the Sibley Music Library. \u00a0(The finding aid for the The Alec Wilder Archive at the Sibley Music Library is accessible here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Later in her life, Marian McPartland would be the recipient of a Grammy Award (2004), the Order of the British Empire (2010), and an honorary Doctor of Music degree from the University of Rochester (2007). After her death in 2013, the Sibley Music Library received her extensive collection of personal papers.\u00a0 The finding aid for the Marian McPartland Collection is accessible here<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 30, 1935\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 30, 1951<\/strong>\u00a0Third Annual Festival of Marches\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 27, 1953\u00a0 Jos\u00e9 Ech\u00e1niz, pianist\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 28, 1958\u00a0 Collegium Musicum of University of Illinois\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 26, 1965\u00a0 Polish Millennium Concert<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 27, 1966\u00a0\u00a0 Sally Benson played donated Guadagnini violin\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 26, 1970 First Graduation Concert with Orchestra<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 29, 1970\u00a0 Hermann Pry\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 25, 1974\u00a0 Chorale\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 7, 1976\u00a0 Harry Sparnaay\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 25, 1978\u00a0 Extended Vocal Techniques Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baOctober 25, 1978\u00a0 Van Daalan Organ Inauguration\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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