ROCmusic, a community-based program that provides after-school tuition-free music and string instruction to children in the City of Rochester, will present a one-hour Winter Holiday concert titled “ROC the Night Away” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the David F. Gantt R-Center, 700 North St. The concert, which is free and open to the…
Eastman School of Music singers and baroque instrumentalists will present Heinrich Schütz’s The Christmas Story (Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi) at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 18, as part of the Third Thursday Concert with Eastman’s Italian Baroque Organ series at the Memorial Art Gallery. Schütz’s The Christmas Story presents the Nativity story in a…
Future violinists have a chance to learn about and try the most prominent instrument in the orchestra when the Eastman Community Music School celebrates Violin Day on Saturday, Dec. 13. Adults and children can enjoy recitals, watch classes, and try their hand at making music during a string instrument petting zoo. All the activities are…
Melina Esse, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, received the American Musicological Society’s highly coveted 2014 Alfred Einstein Award, which honors an article of exceptional merit published during the previous year by a scholar in the early stages of his or her career. Esse was honored for her article “Encountering the…
Baritone Derrick Smith, whose career included opera roles such as Porgy, Crown, and Jake in Porgy and Bess as well as acclaimed solo performances, died Tuesday, Nov. 18, following a heart attack. He was 56. Mr. Smith received his master’s degree at the Eastman School of Music in 1988 and had been on the faculty…
Michael Alan Anderson, associate professor of musicology at the Eastman School of Music, has, for the second time in three years, been named a winner of the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Award. The Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Awards are presented annually by the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) to authors and journalists for…
Organists Edoardo Bellotti and William Porter will present a duo concert “Goût Français and Stile Italiano: A Comparison” as part of the Third Thursday Concert Series at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday, Nov. 20 at the Memorial Art Gallery. The program features works by composers Couperin and Merul and improvisations by Bellotti and Porter on harpsichord and…
The Vienna Boys Choir, whose soaring voices and enchanting performances sell out concert halls around the world, presents a “Christmas from Vienna” concert in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4. Renowned for what the New York Times has described as “the gorgeousness of the singing,” the ensemble is appearing as…
Four departments at the Eastman School of Music are collaborating on a celebration of the 300th birthday of composer Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach from November 10 through 14. The five-day event will include paper presentations as well as recitals of the composer’s complete Prussian and Württemberg sonatas and other works for piano, clavichord, harpsichord, and…