Jazz and classical music performances by faculty, including the dean himself, will highlight the formal investiture of Jamal J. Rossi as the Joan and Martin Messinger Dean of the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music. The inaugural ceremony, at 5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, will also feature the…
Eastman Opera Theatre brings Albert Herring, a comedic opera about a young British man who sets out to relinquish his purity, to the Kilbourn Hall stage for four performances beginning Thursday, November 6. The three-act, two-and-a-half-hour production by Benjamin Britten is a witty comedy and a pointed satire of British small-town attitudes. The opera tells…
Trumpet virtuoso, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, and Grammy Award-winning jazz and classical icon Arturo Sandoval will perform in Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater with his band Sunday, Nov. 2, at 3 p.m. His appearance is part of the Eastman School of Music’s new “Eastman Presents” series of guest artists. A protégé of the…
Dramatic coloratura soprano Rita Shane, who performed as Queen of the Night more than 250 times and originated the lead in Dominick Argento’s Miss Havisham’s Fire, died Thursday, October 9, in New York City after a brief and courageous battle with pancreatic and liver cancer. She was 78 years old and was Professor of Voice…
The art of organ accompaniment to silent film will be explored in an upcoming four-day event that includes screenings of several iconic movies from the early 20th century with live accompaniment by internationally known organists. The Organ and Film Festival, presented by the Eastman Rochester Organ Initiative and the Film/Music Cluster of the University of…
Paul O’Dette, professor of lute and professor of conducting and ensembles at the Eastman School of Music, is receiving international recognition for the albums My Favorite Dowland and Charpentier: La Descente d’Orphee aux enfers; La Couronne de Fleurs. My Favorite Dowland (Harmonia Mundi, May 2014), O’Dette’s personal selection of works by one of the lute’s…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will open its sixth season with an exciting program of music celebrating the 150th birthday of composer Richard Strauss on Sunday, Oct. 19, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd. The concert will open with the String Sextet Overture to…
Francesca Zambello, artistic director of the Washington National Opera and artistic and general director of the Glimmerglass Opera, will give the Eastman School of Music’s 2014 Glenn E. Watkins Lecture on Friday, Oct. 3, at 3 p.m. in the school’s Hatch Recital Hall. Zambello’s lecture, titled “Show Business: Popular Culture vs. Art,” will be followed…
The Eastman Organ Department introduces a new concert series titled “Tuesday Pipes,” which begins Oct. 7 at 12:10 p.m. Performances will be held at Christ Church in downtown Rochester, recurring weekly during the Tuesday lunch hour. Events are free and open to the general public. Each concert will run for approximately 25 minutes and showcase…