The Eastman School of Music will honor former director Robert Freeman for his long-time service to the school and to the Rochester community by naming the atrium of its Sibley Music Library in his honor. During the dedication ceremony, which will be held Tuesday, April 7, at 3 p.m. in the library, Freeman also will…
Portrait of Sergei Prokofiev, 1934 This weekend, Eastman professor Barry Snyder will be giving a once-in-a-lifetime performance of three incredibly powerful sonatas by Sergei Prokofiev. These sonatas contain some of Prokofiev’s most dissonant music for the piano. The composer’s biographer Daniel Jaffe has argued that Prokofiev, “having forced himself to compose a cheerful evocation of…
Eastman trumpeters Andrew Psarris, Michael Kent, Steve Felix, Dovas Lietuvninkas, Samuel Huss Last weekend, March 19 through 21, I had the sincere honor of competing in the National Trumpet Competition with my fellow trumpet players. Every year we go down to this competition and we do well — but most important, we have a lot…
Fourteen exceptionally talented young singer-actors from the United States and Europe will compete for the top prize in the finals of the 2015 Lotte Lenya competition, which will be held at the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall on Saturday, April 18. Both the daytime finals and the evening concert are free and open to…