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.)
Holocaust remembrance concert set for May 5
(Monroe County Post 04/12/2019)
Eastman School of Music faculty members, students and alumni will join the worldwide observance of Yom HaShoah with “A Time to Remember,” a Holocaust remembrance concert, at 7:30 p.m. on May 5 in Kilbourn Hall, 26 Gibbs St., Rochester.
The free concert showcases music written by — or in tribute to — those who died or survived the World War II concentration and work camps. This includes “Remember Me” by David Maslanka, works by Erwin Schulhoff and Lazlo Wiener, Suite for Bassoon and Piano by Alexandre Tansman, and “Windsongs: For the Children of Terezin” by Larry Zimmerman.
The series of annual concerts was started in 2014 by Renee Jolles, professor of violin. Her father, Jerome Jolles, buried bodies as part of a work detail in Romania during Nazi occupation.
Jazz pianist Bill Dobbins coming to The Other Side in Utica
(Utica Observer Dispatch 04/11/2019)
Dobbins is professor of jazz studies at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, where he teaches the jazz composing and arranging courses and directs the award winning Eastman Jazz Ensemble and Eastman Studio Orchestra.
Fresh string quartets come to 2019-20 Eastman-Ranlet Series
(City Newspaper 04/09/2019)
The 2019-20 Eastman-Ranlet Series of Sunday string quartet concerts isn’t flashy at first glance, but initial appearances can be deceiving, with two groups with which you may be unfamiliar. The series’ five chamber music concerts at Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall offer a brilliant combination of beloved compositions and newer works. …
Review: Marilyn Monroe Goes to War in ‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’
(The New York Times 04/10/2019)
The director is Katie Mitchell, the intensely cerebral theater and opera director. And its sole performers — and this, for the less recondite theatergoer, is the beauty part — are that fine stage and screen actor Ben Whishaw and the opera star Renée Fleming. …
NEW DEAN CHOSEN FOR COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS
(Yes! Weekly 04/11/2019)
After a nationwide search, Dr. bruce d. mcclung will become the inaugural dean of UNC Greensboro’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (CVPA) on July 14, 2019. …
An American music scholar, … holds a baccalaureate degree from the New England Conservatory and a PhD in musicology from the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. … (Also reported by UNCG Now)
Concert Truck rolls into town for interactive performances
(Greenville Daily Reflector 04/12/2019)
Created by pianists Nick Luby and Susan Zhang, the 16-foot box truck tours the country as a fully functioning mobile concert hall, complete with lights, a sound system and a piano. …
Zhang, who has since been featured as a soloist with the South Carolina Philharmonic and the University of South Carolina Symphony, is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music and the …
(City Newspaper 04/09/2019)
Rochester-based guitarist Chris Bethmann is a storyteller at heart, capable of producing countrified ingenuity in an ever-changing world. Raised on Americana and having studied jazz at Eastman School of Music, he brings a thoughtful, alt-folk approach to the table on his debut EP “Naked Bourbon,” released in December 2018. …
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