EAST AND WEST: CHINA AND BROADWAY COME TO EASTMAN FOR A DOUBLE-BILL OPERA PREMIERE BY ALUMNUS CHARLES STROUSE

ROCHESTER, NY — An intriguing new opera by Charles Strouse — one of Broadway’s most prolific composers and one of the Eastman School of Music’s most illustrious alumni — launches Eastman Opera Theatre’s new season this fall. The world premiere performances of Strouse’s new work, The Future of the American Musical Theater, will take place…

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EASTMAN THEATRE'S STUNNING NEW STAGE UNVEILED

ROCHESTER, NY — With a percussion fanfare written especially for the occasion, the curtain rose for the very first time today on the Eastman Theatre’s $5 million stage renovation. In a short ceremony this afternoon in the historic Theatre, Eastman School Dean James Undercofler — accompanied by University of Rochester President Thomas H. Jackson, Rochester…

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A “PIPE DREAM” NO LONGER, EASTMAN’S LATEST ORGAN PROJECT LINKS CULTURES ACROSS THE OCEAN

ROCHESTER, NY — As the Eastman School of Music prepares for its third annual Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative (EROI) Festival, so does an international contingent of influential organ builders, prominent organ scholars and researchers, and important Lithuanian dignitaries. A major highlight of this year’s festival, October 21-24, is the first ever global cultural heritage project of…

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WORLD PREMIERE OF FOUR SEASCAPES FOR CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA CELEBRATES CENTENNIAL OF EASTMAN SCHOOL’S FAMOUS SIBLEY MUSIC LIBRARY

ROCHESTER, NY — When Eastman School of Music Dean James Undercofler asked acclaimed composer and alumnus Dominick Argento (PhD ’58) to write a piece for the October 2004 centennial celebration of the School’s famed Sibley Music Library, it was clearly a match made in heaven. Considered America’s pre-eminent composer of lyric opera, the Pulitzer- and…

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