Let’s Put on a Show: Eastman is on the Fringe!
The Eastman School of Music will host 9 shows in its venues during the First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival Sept. 17 to 26. Eastman faculty, students, and staff will also perform at other venues in and around downtown Rochester during this year’s event. For more on both Eastman and University of Rochester participation in…
Eastman News Highlights July 13, 2015
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.) Strike a Chord (City newspaper 07/10/2015) Local audiences have long been able to hear great performances from established pianists who collaborate with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra…
Eastman News Highlights July 6, 2015
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.) Conducting from the keyboard, Rei Hotoda set to make Utah Symphony debut (Salt Lake Tribune 07/04/2015) Eighty-eight keys aren’t enough for Rei Hotoda. Leading 88 musicians…
Eastman News Highlights June 29, 2015
Here are some select clippings from the past week 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.) Arrangers Workshop was city’s first jazz showcase (Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 06/24/2015) Before the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival brought some…
New Book by Eastman School Professor Explores Images of World Cultures in Western Music
As Europeans explored distant lands and settled new continents from the 1500s to around 1800, their impressions of foreign cultures were reflected in the performing arts, notably those involving music. Depictions of Middle Eastern harem women, Incan priests, fortune-telling Gypsies (Roma), and other inhabitants of exotic locales often reveal a mixture of attraction to the…