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Teaching Musicians to Be Entrepreneurs
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Pipe Organ Begins To Take Shape
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Wood’s Workshop (Audio Slide Show with Mark Wood)
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Fearless Kronos Quartet pays a visit
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Strong tops poll on cultural attractions
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Time Out Arts: A world of music on Gibbs Street
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Do Solo Auditions Harm Orchestras?
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Iraqi native is ambassador of hope
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Eastman student to be featured on NPR show
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Local musicians score Grammy nominations
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Clarinet Palooza!
Exotic sounds eminate from Eastman…
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The Eastman Jazz Ensemble Performs in Tampa, FL
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Eastman Computer Music Studio 25th Anniversary
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Musicologist Alfred Mann Dies at 89
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Music College Fair planned
Eastman School helps orchestrate event to reach out to student musicians…
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Eastman Theatre chandelier lowered
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Polyphonic.org Takes Center Stage
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Washington pianist plays way to victory
The results of the tenth annual Young Artists International Piano Competition…
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Russian shines among young pianists
Great performances kick off the tenth annual Young Artists International Piano Competition…
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Concert pays tribute to violin teacher
Anastasia Jempelis had exactly the kind of personality needed to have a lasting impact on the way the violin is taught in Rochester…
Eastman judge has ear for excellence
Listening to competitors brings out passions of jury’s leader at Eastman’s Young Artists International Piano Competition…
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Season of premieres: Opera
Glimmerglass premieres an opera commissioned by Eastman’s Hanson Institute for American Music…
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The Pacific Sounds of Bali
Exotic sounds eminate from Eastman…
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Benefit concert for fallen soldier leads to Eastman scholarship
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New Horizons’ ageless symphony
New Horizons’ main requirement is simple: a desire to play…
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Award winner at Eastman gives voice to goals
Jason Holmes has been honored for his artistic excellence… •
Philadelphia Orchestra Names a Conservatory Dean Its President (Registration required)
The Philadelphia Orchestra announced that it had appointed a music conservatory dean as its new president…
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Eastman dean new Philadelphia Orchestra CEO
Undercofler, who has been dean of Eastman since 1997, has a record as both an extraordinary fundraiser and a visionary leader…
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Philadelphia Orchestra names Eastman School dean as president
James Undercofler, dean of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., is expected to start Aug. 1… •
Ying, Freer play with anticipation
David Ying and Elinor Freer gave their last recital together as a duo Tuesday night at Kilbourn Hall…
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Concert review: Vigor, precision from string quartet
It’s a good thing the members of the St. Lawrence String Quartet are all a bunch of FOYs…
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Larmore’s performance overcomes all obstacles
The most amazing thing about mezzo-soprano Jennifer Larmore’s recital Tuesday night at Kilbourn Hall was the simple fact that it happened at all…
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Classical music’s new ambassadors
Young Eastman musicians are fanning out to perform in communities…
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Women’s work
An Eastman prof picks up a double-edged sword… ·
Eastman School organ project sounds like a leader
The organ is enjoying a new popularity…
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Concert review: Andriessen premiere passionate
Eastman’s Philharmonia Orchestra performs music of Stravinsky and Andriessen…
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Concert review: Classical music, rock merge
Eastman’s Musica Nova Ensemble performs under Brad Lubman… ·
Dutch Composer Tweaks Tradition
Adventurous Dutch composer Louis Andriessen presents two Eastman concerts…
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Grammys Tap Eastman’s Ying Quartet
Eastman’s String Quartet in Residence wins Best Classical Crossover Album…
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Music Review: A Polished Tribute to Fennell
The Eastman Wind Ensemble Remembers Frederick Fennell…
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When Worlds Collide
Classical pianist Christopher O’Riley believes in Radiohead…
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McPartland Dives Jazz Tribute
Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland celebrates the music of Ray Wright…
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Forever Young
Jazz Pianist Marian McPartland celebrates the music of Ray Wright…
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Critic’s Picks for 2005
Much of Rochester’s best classical and jazz in 2005 came from Eastman…
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Baroque Pipe Organ on Display (Audio)
NPR features Eastman’s new Italian Baroque Organ on their “Day to Day” program series…
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Soprano Superstar Fleming Returns
Renée comes Home for the Holidays…
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Composer Alec Wilder — A Fascinating Enigma
New annotated autobiography gives insights into remarkable life…
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Excellence at Eastman
The University of Rochester’s music school shines…
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‘Terrific’ Night for ‘Faust’
Schumann’s Faust is practically unclassifiable, a work that straddles the genres of opera, oratorio and incidental music…
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Grammy Nominations Sing Praises of Eastman’s Elite
Recordings featuring Eastman School of Music faculty and alumni netted nearly a dozen Grammy nominations…
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The Devil Was in the Last Detail
Perhaps Robert Schumann should have sold his soul to the devil…
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A Rare Piano Recital Occurs at Eastman Theatre
Pianist Emanuel Ax visits Rochester…
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Ensemble Brings Eastman into 21st Century
Cellos and pianos collide with synthesizers and heavy feedback, bringing the Eastman School of Music’s musical innovation and its students into a realm of unexplored musical landscapes… ·
Cavalli Opera Gets North American Premiere
A collaboration between colleagues at BGSU and the Eastman School of Music leads to a revival of Cavalli’s 1640 opera Gli amori d’Apollo e di Dafne…
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RPO to premier Bill Dobbins guitar concerto (Audio)
Two years ago, Bill Dobbins received a commission to write a new guitar concerto from the Hanson Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music…
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What Makes it Great?
Previewing the premiere of Bill Dobbins’ ‘Guitar Concerto’…
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Conductor of Energy
Brad Lubman leads Eastman contemporary group Musica Nova… ·
Former Eastman Wind Ensemble Condutor A. Clyde Roller dies at 91
Success marks conductor’s life…
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Eastman Composer Writes Guitar Homage to Late Friend
Bill Dobbins composed his new Guitar Concerto with love, care and ample amounts of sorrow…
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The life and work of Eastman photographer Louis Ouzer (Audio)
A retrospective of Ouzer’s photographs recently opened at a local gallery…
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Warren Benson dies
Memories of the Eastman composer and teacher… ·
Eastman Composer, Teacher Warren Benson Dies (Audio)
WXXI’s Brenda Tremblay reports, Benson was a complex man who followed his own path…
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Community Music School Tunes Up for Gibbs St. Space
As Rochester surrenders to the grip of winter this season, pedestrians along Gibbs Street may be temporarily distracted from their misery by music…
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Music Honors New UR Leader
The Eastman Wind Ensemble premieres Robert Morris’ Quaerere et Invenire to celebrate the University of Rochester’s new president, Joel Seligman… ·
Free Lunchtime Concert (Video)
Lunchtime was anything but routine for some folks Thursday…
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Warren Benson Dies
The noted Eastman educator and composer dies at age 81…
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Baroque Organ Finds New Home at MAG (Audio)
This summer, the Rochester conservatory imported a single, rare object far too big to fit in the library…
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Baroque Organ Unveiled
Eastman School brings 17th-century instrument to Memorial Art Gallery… ·
Jazz Concert Draws Dollars
Eastman students put on a benefit concert to aid jazz musicians affected by Hurricane Katrina…
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Billy Joel Gives to the Eastman School of Music
Musician donates $320,000 to endow scholarship in his name….
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American Composer David Diamond Dies at Age 89 (Audio)
A tribute to the composer…
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Winners selected for the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers
An Eastman student becomes the youngest first prizewinner in the history of the Lotte Lenya Competition for Singers…
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Eastman School takes classical pieces beyond the concert hall
Rochester School 16 students bobbed along to music — classical music — during performances by Eastman School of Music students Tuesday…
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Classical music: This prodigy still plays (sports, too)
As a kid growing up in Boston during the 1940s, violinist Charlie Castleman was such an enviably brilliant prodigy… ·
Frederick Fennell dies at age 90 (links by source below)
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Literature Moves Argento’s Music (Audio)
A new work by Dominick Argento (PhD ’58) celebrates the centennial of Eastman’s Sibley Music Library…
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Curtain Rises on Renovated Eastman Theatre Stage (Audio)
On October 6th, hundreds of people watched the curtain rise on five million dollars’ worth of renovations to the stage area of Eastman Theatre…
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New Argento work on stage Saturday
When Eastman School of Music officials recently decided to commission music marking the upcoming 100th anniversary of Sibley Music Library, they knew exactly the man to call…
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Eastman composer to unveil new work for outdoors
Composer Robert Morris is fast becoming the Frank Lloyd Wright of music…
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Eastman Unveils New Stage
Eastman Theater has been closed since July 1st, for extensive renovations. The curtain rose for the first time on the new stage Wednesday afternoon…
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It’s Miller Time
Eastman School of Music honored one of its most famous alumni, Mitch Miller, by renaming Gibbs Street’s Eastman Place — Miller Center’….
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Student pianists compete at Eastman
This week, more than two dozen young virtuosos from across the United States and around the world have competed in the Eastman Young Artists’ International Piano Competition…
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World’s Best in Rochester
Talented teenagers from all over the world descend upon Eastman School of Music every summer for its Eastman Young Artists International Piano Competition…
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Eastman Theatre Makeover
Eastman Theatre closed July first, for Phase 1 of a makeover that should be completed October first…
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Organist students reach into innards of their craft
A half-dozen pairs of hands trained to play the intricate, demanding works of composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Henry Purcell reached out and lugged a heavy wood frame up over the lip of the church balcony, careful not to bang or damage it in any way…
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Virtuoso performance from a legend
Few jazz musicians can match the incomparable pianist Marian McPartland’s popularity and staying power….
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Eastman Jazz Showcase
If you just happened to wander into the Eastman Theatre on Sunday night without knowing who was playing, you’d be completely justified in mistaking the group on stage for one of the country’s top professional bands….
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Eastman Ensemble or Rock Stars?
The Eastman Wind Ensemble is one of this country’s most respected college wind ensembles, but in Japan–it gets rock-star treatment….
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Performance resonates with vocal sparks
A performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is always a memorable event…
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Education goes the distance
More schools conduct classes via Internet2
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Entrepreneurs are born, but can they be taught?
…Another Kauffman beneficiary, the University of Rochester, got $3.5 million for a variety of programs, including one to train Eastman School of Music students to develop ventures around music…
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‘Susannah’ opens at Eastman
One of the longest running hits in the history of American opera is on stage at the Eastman Theatre, and it’s helping the Eastman Opera Theatre close out its 2003-04 season on a glorious high note…
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Music For All
March is ‘Music in Our Schools’ Month across the country, but only Rochester has ‘Music For All’ Day…
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Tenor flatters seldom-heard classics
There are many different roads to success for a musician. Tenor Anthony Dean Griffey chose the one less traveled…
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Penderecki concert an excellent adventure
The most adventurous orchestral concert so far this season took place at the Eastman Theatre on Friday night…
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Pianist Snyder dazzles Kilbourn Hall
Pianist Barry Snyder presented a thoughtful, original and breathtaking recital at Kilbourn Hall on Tuesday night…
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Poulenc Opera Scintillates
The Eastman Opera Theatre is doing things a bit differently in its current production of Poulenc’s Dialogue of the Carmelites…
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Who Wants to Be An Entrepreneur?
More students do and colleges respond with increasing number of courses
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Songs Recall the Struggles
Forty-one years after she listened to King describe his dream, Phyllis Wade still sings the stories of her ancestors
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“Fine Tuning,” a special multimedia feature about the Eastman School
Originally showcased on the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle website
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Seeing the Sounds of the Eastman School of Music
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Pianist Goode Shows Devotion
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Local Revival of ‘Le Carnaval Mascarade’ is a Beautiful Production of a Mediocre Story
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Music Lover’s Pipe Dream
Eastman School hopes to make Rochester a classical organ mecca
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He Really Did Write the Book on Jazz
In a genre of improvisation, Bill Dobbins took a deliberate path to success
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