Robert Freeman
Photos
Dedication of the Freeman Family Atrium in the Sibley Music Library
As Administrator
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- With his administrative team in 1984: (from left) Paul Burgett, Jon Engberg, RF, John Santuccio.
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- With composer and longtime ESM director Howard Hanson.
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- With Olga Koussevitzky (widow of conductor Serge Koussevitzky) at RF’s inauguration, 20 September 1973.
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- Looking quite at home (over his shoulder: the old YMCA building, now the site of the Student Living Center).
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- With piano professor Cecile Staub Genhart in 1975.
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- With alumni at the first triennial reunion, 1979 (at left: buildings that would be replaced by Eastman Place, now known as Miller Center)
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- With President Robert L. Sproull, presenting the Presser Award to the student winner (1980).
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- Chatting in 1985 with students Tom Hornig (BM ’84, MM ’86) and Diane Schumann (BM ’86) and team members Edward Merck, Paul Burgett, and Jon Engberg on the occasion of the annual Convocation.
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- With Merck and Engberg, 1988.
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- With Bill Wood and Engberg, 1992.
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- New “Eastman Place” building (renamed Miller Center in 2004).
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- The Atrium—originally just a twinkle in Bob’s eye, but a reality in 1989.
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- Dedication of the Elaine Wilson Seminar Room (Sibley Music Library), 3 May 1989. At far right: Mary Wallace Davidson, head librarian of Sibley Music Library during the years 1984-99.
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- Unveiling a portrait of the late organ professor Russell Saunders, with organ professor David Craighead, 1994.
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- Presenting an ESM sweatshirt to guests from abroad
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- RF, Elaine Wilson, and President G. Dennis O’Brien, honoring the gift of the seminar room to Sibley Music Library.
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- Unveiling the portrait of Ruth Watanabe, the longtime head librarian of Sibley Music Library.
As Activist for Music Education and the Arts
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- In 1979 (during alumni reunion), with Livingstone L. Biddle, Jr., former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, and President Sproull.
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- With Frank S. M. Hodsoll (chair of the National Endowment for the Arts), left, and professor of music education Roy Ernst, during the 1983 conference “The Future of Music Education.”
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- Speaking in Kilbourn Hall at the July 1983 national conference, “The Future of Music Education.”
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- In audience in Kilbourn Hall at a November 1993 conference, “Federal Funding for the Arts: Is the NEA the Best Approach?”
Performer
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- RF at piano (1976), rehearsing Stravinsky’s Septet for a Kilbourn performance, with (clockwise from front) professors Oliver Steiner (violin), Stanley Hasty (clarinet), Verne Reynolds (horn), David Van Hoesen (bassoon), Robert Sylvester (cello), and Francis Tursi (viola).
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- As collaborative pianist with voice professor Yi-Kwei Sze, Kilbourn Hall (1976).
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- Formal portrait at piano
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- As collaborative pianist with violin professor Zvi Zeitlin, Eastman Theatre, on the occasion of RF’s inauguration (20 September 1973).
Signed copies of Robert Freeman’s recent book The Crisis of Classical Music in America are available for purchase in the Eastman School of Music bookstore.
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