ROCHESTER, NY — At the birth of America’s Roaring ’20s, a small group of visionary civic leaders in a mid-sized Western New York city came together with the dream of forming a world-class school of music. The story of how, in 1921, Rochester industrialist, entrepreneur and philanthropist George Eastman founded the Eastman School of Music,…
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…
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…
ROCHESTER, NY — Zvi Zeitlin, distinguished Kilbourn professor of violin at the Eastman School of Music, received one of the University of Rochester’s highest teaching honors — the Edward Peck Curtis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching — at the Eastman School’s Convocation ceremony held earlier this month. Awarded within University of Rochester schools with…
ROCHESTER, NY — Robert Morris, chair of the Composition Department of the Eastman School of Music, has again found inspiration in the sights and sounds of nature, and produced a second work that draws audiences not into the concert hall but rather into a beautiful natural environment. Morris has written a new outdoor piece, Coming…
ROCHESTER, NY ― Eastman Theatre’s “extreme makeover” ― a $5 million renovation to its stage ― is nearing completion on time and on budget, and the excitement is mounting. The stage renovation, announced publicly in February 2003, is the first of two phases of historically sensitive renovations that the Eastman School of Music has planned…
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…
ROCHESTER, NY — It’s a homecoming unlike any other for music legend Mitch Miller. On Thursday, September 9, the Rochester native and recipient of a 2000 Grammy Award for Lifetime Achievement will return to his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music, for a special ceremony in his honor. During it, Eastman School Director James…
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…