Rochester, NY — Jazz legend Marian McPartland has been a frequent performer at the Eastman School of Music for 35 years, ever since Rayburn Wright invited her to headline his annual Arranger’s Holiday concert in 1971. “Everyone admired and respected him greatly,” says the legendary jazz pianist and host of NPR’s Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.…
Rochester, NY –Back by popular demand after the group’s last sold-out show at the Eastman School of Music in 1995, Huun-Huur-Tu returns to Kilbourn Hall on Tuesday, January 24 at 8 p.m. According to paleo-musicologists, throat singing, or khöömei, is the most ancient form of music making known to human beings. It was developed by…
Rochester, NY — The Eastman School of Music was well represented at the 48th Annual Grammy Award nominations on December 8, 2005. Between faculty members, students and alumni, the School netted fifteen nominations. Three Eastman artists received nominations in the same category of Best Opera Recording: Eastman professor, world-renowned lutenist and Grammy winner, Paul O’Dette…
Rochester, NY – Teachers at the Eastman Community Music School grew increasingly frustrated that fewer and fewer students were being exposed to old-fashioned folk songs. “We’ve all but lost that simple frame of reference that can help kids learn more complicated music,” explains Howard Spindler, piano department chair. “Songs like O, Susanna! and Frère Jacques…
Rochester, NY — When soprano Nicole Cabell and baritone Nathaniel Webster appear at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall next month, they will share a special bond that goes beyond singing on the same prestigious New York stage. On Friday, January 27 — under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation’s festival, The Song Continues…2006 — the voices…
ROCHESTER, NY — The life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered and celebrated next month by the Eastman School of Music with a special performance that is free and open to the public. On Monday, January 16 (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day), at noon in Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.),…
Rochester, NY — The late, internationally acclaimed vocalist William Warfield will leave a lasting local legacy, thanks in part to Rochester’s William Warfield Scholarship Fund. Since it was founded in 1977, the Fund has awarded more than 30 scholarships to talented and deserving voice students at the Eastman School of Music. “The Fund is also…
Rochester, NY — Nine of the Eastman School of Music’s top voice and opera students vied for kudos and cash at the fifth annual Friends of Eastman Opera Voice Competition on Saturday, November 19, 2005. It was an afternoon of arias and appreciative applause in the School’s beautiful Kilbourn Hall, and when it was all…
Rochester, NY — Approximately 150 years after he completed it, Robert Schumann’s Scenes from Goethe’s “Faust” will finally get its Rochester premiere on Friday, December 9 at 8 p.m. in the Eastman Theatre. Under the direction of William Weinert, the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and the Eastman School Symphony Orchestra will join in presenting this monument of…