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.)
Missoula Symphony Orchestra, Chorale leaders to step down
(Missoula Missoulian © 06/05/2014)
A combined four decades of Missoula music-making will end next year with the retirement of Joseph Henry and Donald Carey from the Missoula Symphony Orchestra and Chorale.
Henry, who’s held the symphony baton for the last 20 years, and has served as MSO’s music director, is retiring after the 2005-06 season, which will be his 21st.
Henry, who holds a doctorate from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., retired from the University of Montana music department faculty in 1999. He has conducted symphonies across the United States, and has taught at Utica College, the University of Rochester, Eastern New Mexico University, Lawrence University and others.
Viola virtuoso heads to D.C.
(Durango Herald © 06/05/2014)
When Durango High School student Nick Wilbur was 2 years old, his parents took him along to a fiddling competition in Mancos. There, the toddler took an unusual, almost rabid interest in the music.
Last year, he spent three weeks at the illustrious Eastman School of Music for a pre-college program. The 15-year-old prefers music that is at least 200 years old. “His whole life has been music,” Kraus said. This summer, while many of his peers will be whiling away the days outside, Nick is heading to Washington, D.C., to participate in a prestigious youth symphony program. He has won a fellowship to take part in the John F. Kennedy Center/National Symphony Orchestra National Trustees Summer Music Institute.
Tarpon Spring grad goes far with musical gift
(Fox Tampa Bay 06/02/2014)
“It’s something you have to put your heart into to be able to relate it to others,” said Kaila DeLany. The 17-year-old senior from Tarpon Springs High School knew the moment she first heard the sound of the oboe that it was for her.
Her accomplishment with her unusual choice of instrument is getting her into the most renowned school in the world- The Eastman School of Music. “The next chapter I’m starting is crazy,” DeLany said, “It’s a dream come true because this is my dream school. It’s been my dream school for five years to get in. Now I’m going to be going there! It’s such an incredible feeling.”
Mollie Katzen creates vegetarian meals for busy cooks
(Rochester Democrat & Chronicle © 06/02/2014)
“Everyone is born to eat and enjoy food,” says the woman who ignores Food Network and rarely ever looks at other cookbooks, though she does enjoy looking at food blogger photography. “I do not live in that world of chefs and cookbooks that much. I live in my own little world, and love it.”
Orbiting that world are Katzen’s gardens, hiking trails, the piano she plays daily (she studied piano and oboe at the Eastman School of Music before continuing her studies at Cornell University and the San Francisco Art Institute), and of course, her artwork.
Travelers delight
(Washington Post © 05/30/2014)
As a former resident of Rochester, N.Y., I was delighted to see an article on some of the city’s many attractions. Two quick notes: As a former film archivist at the museum, I must point out that the full name is the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, and for good reason. The stellar photography, technology and motion picture collections are justifiably as famous internationally, if not more so, than the house and gardens.
Also, Eastman was a supporter of all the arts in Rochester. The newly renovated Eastman Theatre, an Italian Renaissance style gem in the heart of downtown, is the home to both the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music and is definitely worth a visit.