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.)
Creative Roads in the US Promise Safety
(Market Research Chronicle 07/16/2019)
Outside the Eastman School of Music, in Rochester, N.Y., a group of volunteers repainted the crosswalk to look like three-dimensional piano keys in advance of the city’s annual jazz festival. … (Also reported by NPR and WUFT)
‘The Brightness of Light’ world premiere at Tanglewood
(Albany Times Union 07/17/2019)
The new work is an expansion of “Letters from Georgia,” which debuted two years ago at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester where Puts(Kevin) and Fleming (Renée) are alums. It was Fleming’s idea to expand that piece into a back and forth between wife and husband. The BSO is the lead commissioner of a consortium of American orchestras that will present the work in the coming seasons. … (Also reported by Berkshire Eagle)
Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to Aspen Music Festival, where his career began 55 years ago
(Aspen Times 07/20/2019)
Slatkin is at work on a book with Robert Freeman, former director of the Eastman School of Music, that he said is aimed at “evaluating the state of the symphony orchestra in this still-early phase of the 21st Century.” …
(Traverse City Ticker 07/20/2019)
Expanding educational opportunities and developing new programming are also priority areas for Dr. Kedrik Merwin, who has been hired as the new executive director of the Traverse Symphony Orchestra (TSO). … He has a Doctor of Musical Arts in trombone performance from the Eastman School of Music, a Masters of Music in trombone performance from …
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