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.)
(City Newspaper 09/28/2020)
… listeners to the excellent saxophone playing of Eastman School Of Music graduate Ethan Helm and the inventive guitar work of Paul JuBong Lee.
John Hollenbeck Takes Back Recordings And Forges Ahead
(downbeat.com 09/29/2020)
Now, via Flexatonic, listeners can purchase early albums like No Images—a 2001 album on CRI that included his brilliant reconceptualization of a 1968 speech by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., a project Hollenbeck conceived of while a student at the Eastman School of Music—and midperiod works like 2009’s Eternal Interlude, scored for a 19-piece orchestra and vocalist Theo Bleckmann. Proceeds from the recordings on Bandcamp are being donated to Black Lives Matters initiatives for the foreseeable future. …
With some struggles and adjustments, Des Moines Symphony launches virtual season
(desmoinesregister.com 10/1/2020)
Symphonic music is like football: It’s meant to be played in front of fans. …
“We’re doing some Scott Joplin later in the year. George Walker, a wonderful Black composer, very much underrepresented, the first Black composer to win a Pulitzer Prize for Music, the first African-American to go to Eastman (School of Music in Rochester, New York) and get a degree, so I’m excited about those works right away in the same program.”
SNC professor records sacred vocal piece album
(The Press-Times 09/30/2020)
Dr. Yi-Lan (Elaine) Niu, … completed her masters of music degree in voice at the Eastman School of Music and her doctor of musical arts degree in vocal performance at the …
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