GIBBS STREET Connection Concerts
The Gibbs Street Connection offers a variety of exciting concerts from faculty members and ensembles of the Eastman School of Music (ESM) and from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO).
Friday, September 28, 2007 - ESM
Eastman Wind Ensemble with special guests the Canadian Brass
Tovey: Manhattan Music
Tyzik: Movements in Dance (premiere)
Wright/Scatterday, Shaker Suite
Arr. Scatterday: Ellington Suite; Salute to Fennell
Story, Scenes from Bernstein's “Mass”
8 p.m., Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Saturday, October 27, 2007- RPO
Hugh Wolff, conductor
Jon Kimura Parker, piano
Henri Dutilleux: Métaboles
Ravel: Piano Concerto in G
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3, "Scottish"
8 p.m., Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Sunday, November 4, 2007 - ESM
Eastman Opera Theatre presents A Little Night Music by Stephen Sondheim
2 p.m., Kilbourn Hall
(pre-performance lecture 1 p.m.)
Saturday, November 17, 2007 - RPO
Christopher Seaman, conductor
William Preucil, violin
Beethoven: Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral"
Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 1
Smetana: "The Moldau" from Ma Vlast
8 p.m., Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Cancelled:
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 - ESM
Faculty Artist Series
Kathryn Cowdrick, mezzo-soprano
8 p.m., Kilbourn Hall
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Saturday, January 19 - ESM
Eastman Virtuosi
8 p.m., Kilbourn Hall
Saturday, February 9, 2008 - RPO
Jeff Tyzik, conductor
Sharon Isbin, guitar
Eastman-Rochester Chorus
Music of Tyzik, Rodrigo, Piazzolla, Ginestera, Surinach, and Santoro
8 p.m., Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Saturday, March 1, 2008 - RPO
Christopher Seaman, conductor
Joseph Kalichstein, piano
Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 22
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade
8 p.m., Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - ESM
Faculty Artist Series
Bill Dobbins, jazz piano
8 p.m., Kilbourn Hall
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - RPO
Alexander Mickelthwate, conductor
Jennifer Koh, violin
Mozart: Symphony No. 25, “Little G Minor”
Stravinsky: Violin Concerto
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5
8 p.m. Eastman Theatre
(pre-concert lecture 7 p.m.)