ROCHESTER, NY — Just days after his first concerts as music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, internationally renowned conductor Yuri Temirkanov comes to the Eastman School of Music for a guest appearance with the Eastman Philharmonia. Temirkanov will conduct Eastman’s premier student orchestra at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2, in the Eastman Theatre, 60…
ROCHESTER, NY — Professional storyteller Jay Stetzer will help bring to life the childhood of several prominent composers — Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Rossini, and others — in the next “Musical Elevenses” concert, to be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, January 29, in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall (26 Gibbs St.). The concert,…
ROCHESTER, NY — William Warfield, one of the great vocal artists of the 20th century, will help usher in the 21st century at his alma mater, the Eastman School of Music. The Grammy Award-winning bass-baritone — who was raised in Rochester and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Eastman in 1942 and 1946, respectively…
ROCHESTER, NY — The archive of photographer Louis Ouzer now has a permanent home at the Eastman School of Music. With the help of anonymous friends, Eastman has acquired the noted Rochester photographer’s life work — thousands of black-and-white images made over the past seven decades of music legends and long-ago students, of local landmarks…
ROCHESTER, NY – The ethereal sound of the theremin ¾ used memorably in the sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and in The Beach Boys ’60s hit Good Vibrations will be heard at the Eastman School of Music in March when the world’s leading virtuoso on the instrument visits. Lydia Kavina, the last…
ROCHESTER, NY — The popular “Eastman at Washington Square” concert series, sponsored by the Eastman School of Music and the First Universalist Church, returns to downtown Rochester this winter for the second half of its fifth season. These free lunchtime concerts, which resumed earlier this month, occur every Thursday through March 23. Each concert takes…