Eastman News Highlights has been on summer hiatus, but we return to a weekly schedule with today’s issue.
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.)
‘Data Lords’ Review: On Gigabytes and Garden Sights
(Wall Street Journal 08/03/2020)
Maria Schneider leads a big band on a two-disc release that explores the dominance of the digital world and the quest to preserve natural space. …
She earned a master’s degree from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., before moving to New York City in 1985. There she apprenticed … (Also reported by artsfuse.org, Minnesota Monthly)
Remembering George Walker, the first black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music
(Classic FM 08/20/2020)
… the first black recipient of a doctorate from the Eastman School in 1955 and the first … Aged 16, Walker was granted a scholarship to Oberlin College in Ohio. After graduating, he enrolled at the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in …
Gateways confirms November virtual festival
(WXXI News 08/21/2020)
… which has brought classical musicians of African descent to Rochester since 1995, first partnered with the Eastman School of Music four years ago.
Eastman Professor and Organist on 09/20/20 broadcast of Pipedreams, September listings
(Classical 91.5 08/19/2020)
Rochester should feel proud of Eastman School of Music‘s Associate Professor of Organ and Internationally-recognized recitalist Nathan Laube, who makes an appearance on the 9/20/20 broadcast of Pipedreams …
HomeStage: David and Maya Temperley
(WXXI News 08/18/2020)
David Temperley is a professor at the Eastman School of Music, and writes classical pieces inspired by pop music…he also writes pop music inspired …
PUSH Physical Theatre’s one small trunk and a lot of big ideas
(WXXI News 08/05/2020)
PUSH first came to national attention when it reached the finals of the TruTV reality show “Fake Off.” The group has toured nationally, and some internationally, and has collaborated with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and The Ying Quartet, and on multimedia fantasy operas with Eastman School of Music composers Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
12 Brilliant Recent Jazz Albums That Shouldn’t Be Missed
(PopMatters 08/14/2020)
Kneebody – Chapters [Edition]
Kneebody is a quartet that no longer qualifies as all that new (it formed more than 15 years ago, and released a great debut on Dave Douglas’ Greenleaf Records, from associations formed at the Eastman School of Music). …
VC INTERVIEW | Violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins – ‘Black Composer Chevalier de Saint Georges’
(The Violin Channel 08/13/2020)
Years ago, while preparing for the Naumburg International Violin Competition, I introduced myself to the late composer George Walker since I was including one of his sonatas in my competition programs. As we returned from lunch that day, he asked me if I knew or played concertos by composer after composer of color. At that time, I replied with a refrain of “nos.” He turned to me and said, “I’m sorry, but your education is incomplete.” Having gone to the Eastman School of Music, where he was also an alum, and the Manhattan School, I was taken aback.
75 Years After Bombings, Tri-Cities Musician’s Album Explores Complicated Hanford History
(NW News Network 08/06/2020)
Denin Koch’s “re: manhattan project” album officially launched Thursday, Aug. 6, 2020, 75 years after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. …
Koch graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane and went on to pursue his master’s at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y. That’s where a professor heard his composition and encouraged him to arrange it for a big band. (Also reported by City Newspaper, Tri-City Herald)
Catch live chamber music at the Tower
(Bend Bulletin 08/20/2020)
Violinist Mateo Garza, a former Spotlight Chamber Players member who now studies at Eastman School of Music, will play in “Listen to the Music,” a …
Finger Lakes Opera’s Young Artists adapt to virtual performances
(City Newspaper 08/20/2020)
That was all that Eastman School of Music alumna and current Finger Lakes Opera (FLO) Young Artist Robin Steitz found herself singing during the … (Also reported by WXXI News)
An Eastman voice alum’s transition, in music and life
(City Newspaper 08/12/2020)
Eastman alumnus Lyra Pramuk’s debut album is a “Fountain” of vocal experimentation. …
The arc of Pramuk’s life and the arc of her art are essentially the same: a gay teenage boy growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, submerging into the life of a self-described “music nerd” at Eastman School of Music, … (Also reported by Pitchfork)
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