Italian Organist Francesco Cera Performs at the Memorial Art Gallery On Thursday, April 21, 2016 the Memorial Art Gallery’s Third Thursday concert series continues with a concert on the MAG Italian Baroque Organ by renowned Italian organist and harpsichordist Francesco Cera. The concert, which begins at 7:30 p.m., will feature keyboard music from Baroque Naples…
Dalcroze Eurhythmics teacher Monica Dale by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator “Pity the musicians; they never get to dance.” One of the central paradoxes of being a performing musician is the fact that so often, while playing, we experience our performance almost abstractly, as a collection of mechanical processes in our brains, hands, and vocal…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 15, 2016 Cineshape featuring Amy Williams and the JACK Quartet Comes to the Eastman School of Music on May 3 Pianist/composer Amy Williams, along with the JACK Quartet, Linsey Goodman, flute, and Scott Christian, percussion, will be featured in a special performance of “Cineshape” at Eastman School of…
By Eric Laprade The Eastman Wind Orchestra, under the direction of Professor Mark Davis Scatterday, will present its final concert of the 2015-2016 season on Wednesday, April 13, 2016 at 8:00pm in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The concert is free and open to the public. Karel Husa on the campus of Ithaca College The…
By Andrew Psarris Collaboration is one of the greatest gifts of playing music. Eastman’s viola and composition studios have teamed up because of it. Recently the two studios performed a collaborative concert in which composition majors wrote pieces for their peers in the viola department, as a follow-up to a similar successful concert in spring…
By John Fatuzzo The Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro next week at Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The production will be sung in Italian with projected English supertitles and a full orchestra. The performances will feature two rotating casts of Eastman School of Music undergraduate and graduate students. Performance dates…
By Andrew Psarris This year the Eastman Opera Theatre will present Mozart’s perennial favorite Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro). (Performance dates and times are listed at the end of this post.) It will be performed by two student casts in alternating performances, with musical direction by Benton Hess and stage direction by…
By John Fatuzzo As an editor and contributor for the Eastman Blog this year, I have enjoyed learning about the success stories of my peers, friends and teachers. Getting the personal account from students who win competitions, alumni who create exciting projects and faculty who prepare masterful performances is truly the highlight of my internship-turned-job…
Eastman students, faculty members, and staff members wearing t-shirts with the message “We’re Better Than That” for the University’s anti-racism campaign on Monday in Lowry Hall. By John Fatuzzo This past Monday, March 21, was recognized by the United Nations as the International Day for the Elimination of Racism. Taking part in the message of…
On Wednesday, March 23, the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra presents a program of music by two great twentieth-century masters, Bela Bartok and Dmitri Shostakovich. The free concert begins at 8 p.m. in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The program notes for each of the pieces follow. Bela Bartok (fourth form left) recording Hungarian peasant songs…