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.)
Violinist Gillian Smith Launches CD Of Works By Canadian Women Composers
(Broadway World 09/11/2019)
Gillian Smith holds degrees in violin performance from the Eastman School of Music (B.Mus.), the …
New Horizons programs give seniors a chance to learn a new instrument
(RochesterFirst 09/14/2019)
A musical instrument can open someone’s life. The New Horizons Program through the Eastman Community Music School started in 1991.it has more than a dozen groups, ranging from symphonic bands, to string groups of all sizes, and for anyone at any skill level.
Front-Row Seat: It’s Fringe Festival time in Rochester
(Monroe County Post 09/12/2019)
If there’s one musical act that seems tailor-made for a Fringe Festival, it’s the …. Local opera singer Rose Kearin, a current voice student at Eastman School of Music, will give a Lunchtime Concert at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in the … (Also reported by MPNnow.com)
Call Off the Requiem: The Classical Music Business Is Not Dead Just Yet
(Observer 09/11/2019)
Legendary musicologist and acute observer of the professional music scene Robert Freeman lauds efforts such as orchestras that tour around the world to unexpected places, […]
“Music schools train their musicians far too narrowly,” Freeman, the former longtime head of the world-famous Eastman School of Music, told Observer. …
On the Record: Who composed ‘Star Trek’ theme music?
(Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog) 09/15/2019)
The composer of that distinctive theme is Alexander “Sandy” Courage. Born in Philadelphia, in December 1919, Courage was educated at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York. After serving five years in …
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