To most of us, Salomé is a salacious symbol of sexual excess. But that wasn’t always the case. A striking new production combines the illustrations of famed comic-book artist P. Craig Russell with music to tell the biblical story of a beautiful and sensuous young dancer. Russell’s evocative graphic novel, based on Richard Strauss’s opera Salomé,…
Korean musician Jang Hyun Won, a legendary performer on the daegum, or traditional Korean wooden flute, will be in residence at the Eastman School of Music Thursday, Sept. 18. Won will give a class about daegum and Korean traditional music from 1:30 to 3 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18,in the Ciminelli Formal Lounge located in…
Here are some select recent clippings showing the variety of hits/mentions identifying musicians and scholars as Eastman School of Music alumni, faculty or students. (Note: Some links may have expired.) Eastman School of Music Students Perform in News10NBC Studio (WHEC TV 09/12/2014) A bassoon quartet from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music performed in…
