I remember meeting the dean for the first time, in the Eastman Student Living Center. I was naught but a callow freshman, reeling from the thought of having to start school over again, when I was greeted warmly by the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the Eastman School of Music—Douglas Lowry. His wit, sincerity,…
Eastman Philharmonia, October 2010 Come join the Eastman community in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, Saturday, September 27 at 8 p.m., for an exciting concert filled with the Grimm Brothers, titans, and poetic song cycles. The Eastman Symphony Orchestra (ESSO) and the Eastman Philharmonia, conducted by Neil Varon, will be joined by Megan Moore for…
How much do you know about traditional Korean music? If your answer is nothing, everything, or anything in between, you are in luck. Renowned daegum flutist Jang Hyun Won is in residence at the Eastman School today, September 18. The daegum is a traditional Korean wooden flute,made from bamboo, widely used in folk…
Surprisingly, it has been thirteen years since the morning of the September 11th attacks. All of us remember that day in great detail and how our world has changed as a result of that terrible tragedy. This year, a young freshman student from Croatia, Marco Pranic, had an idea; to play “The Star-Spangled Banner” in…
Single tickets for all Eastman concerts go on sale today, September 2 at 10 a.m. at the Eastman School Box Office in the East Wing, 433 East Main Street. And our Faculty Artist Series begins tomorrow evening, September 3, with a recital by Professor of Guitar Nicholas Goluses. The faculty artists lineup continues for six…
Grade schools used to talk of teaching the Three Rs: reading, (w)riting, and ‘rithmetic. For the beginning of the 2014-2015 school year at Eastman, talking about the Three Cs might be more appropriate. On this coming Tuesday, September 2, the following “C”s will be prominent: CLASSES. International, freshman, and returning students are all here and…
This Saturday is a true Kodak Moment: the 160th birthday of George Eastman, the founder of Eastman Kodak Company, the Eastman School of Music (of course), and many other great things about Rochester, who was born July 12, 1854 — not in Rochester, but near Utica, New York. You can read a biography (with plenty…
Today is the 132nd birthday of one of the greatest 20th-century composers, Igor Stravinsky. Besides being one of the greatest composers, he was one of the most-traveled, living in pre-Soviet Russia, in Paris, and in the United States and traveling just about everywhere else in the world as a guest composer, pianist, and conductor. In…
Large-scale, rediscovered works by two composers with ties to Eastman were performed in Carnegie Hall’s recent (and unfortunately its last) “Spring for Music” Festival, dedicated to innovative concerts by North American orchestras. Last Tuesday night, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Eastman Rochester Chorus, Bach Children’s Chorus of Nazareth College, and many soloists – about 250 performers…
This morning, the UK’s Times Higher Education magazine posted a remembrance of Douglas Lowry, who served as the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean from 2007 until shortly before his untimely passing on October 2. Last summer, Jon Marcus interviewed Dean Lowry for an article in the THE on the founding of the new Paul R. Judy…