The manuscript title page of Beethoven’s “Eroica” Symphony. showing the composer’s violent correction of the dedication to Napoleon. Eastman students have been providing program notes for this semester’s concerts by Eastman orchestras: the Philharmonia, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, and Graduate Chamber Orchestra. Here are the notes from the Friday, February 19 Philharmonia concert, featuring works…
By John Fatuzzo This weekend, Thursday, January 28 to Sunday, January 31, the Eastman Opera Theater will present a double-bill of Giacomo Pucciniâs Suor Angelica and Umberto Giordanoâs Mese Mariano. While the Puccini is a well-known work and the Giordano is rarely performed, both of the one-act operas present stories of maternal love and loss;…
The musicians of Table Top Opera performed their adaptation of Debussy’s opera Pelleas et Melisande during Eastman’s “Prismatic Debussy” festival in 2013. By John Fatuzzo Table Top Opera, a chamber ensemble of Eastman faculty members, students, alumni, and friends, will be performing their multi-media work, Echoes of â64, on the Eastman Virtuosi concert this Saturday,…
By John Fatuzzo This month, the Eastman School of Music has been a temporary home for the 200-year old double bass once owned by Serge Koussevitzky (1874-1951), famed Russian double bass virtuoso and longtime music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924-1949. Last month, Madeleine Crouch, the Director of the International Society of Bassists,…
This post on the Eastman Blog features a guest contributor: Andrew Winslow, BM â17. Andrew is a harpist from Irvine, CA, studying Applied Music and Music Education at Eastman. Andrew currently serves as the President of the Eastman Studentsâ Association. By Andrew Winslow As President of the Eastman Studentsâ Association, I recently had the privilege…
By John Fatuzzo The prospect of winning a job with a major symphony orchestra while still in school is an undeniably attractive situation for any musician. Few have done it and those who have usually go on to long, successful careers in the industry. James Wilt, the current Associate Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles…
By John Fatuzzo For Eastman students studying Music Education, the student teaching semester is more trying than any other. A new schedule, daily travel, hours of lesson planning and many more practicing piano, conducting, and secondary instruments, are only some of the typical challenges student teachers face every day. But most agree that it is…
Mary Griswold’s set model for Hydrogen Jukebox By John Fatuzzo As Eastman students, when we attend opera performances we are attracted to the characters singing on stage and the accompanying music from the pit. Overlooked sometimes are the aesthetic aspects of the performance, including the set design. The upcoming Eastman Opera Theatre production, Hydrogen Jukebox…
By John Fatuzzo This weekend, students of Professor Alan Harris will be performing J.S. Bachâs Six Suites for Solo Cello in recital, with introductions and commentary by Dr. Steven Laitz. Two separate performances featuring different suites and performers will take place at Christ Church, 141 East Avenue, on Friday and Saturday, each at 7 p.m.…
Quintensity: Jimmy Abrahamson, Naomi Harrow, Amelia del Cano, Katelyn Fridmann, Andra Bane By John Fatuzzo On Sunday, October 18 at 3 p.m., Quintensity, a woodwind quintet of Eastman undergraduate students, will be performing in the Conservatory of the Eastman Museum as part of the museumâs Performance Plus live music series, a collaboration with the Eastman…