The seismic shifts in America’s cultural and political landscapes are reflected in words and music in Hydrogen Jukebox, a music theatre piece that will be presented by Eastman Opera Theatre November 5 through 8 in the Eastman School of Music’s Kilbourn Hall. Setting the counterculture poems of Allen Ginsberg to the repetitive structures of Philip…
Pianist and Eastman School of Music student Wenjie Lu will perform in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday, Oct. 21, as part of the “Eastman Presents” series sponsored by the George D. and Frieda B. Abraham Foundation. Lu, who is the recipient of the Eastman School’s Lowry Award, will give a recital featuring…
Time-Lapse Installation of the Italian Baroque Organ at Memorial Art Gallery, June 2005 It was the project that almost wasn’t: a rare 18th-century Italian Baroque organ sitting in an antique store in Italy about to be sold off for parts. But thanks to an initiative by the Eastman School of Music of the University of…
“If Music Be the Food…”, the concert series benefiting Rochester’s Foodlink, will open its seventh season on Sunday, Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 25 Westminster Rd., in Rochester. The concert opens with Jean-Marie Leclair’s Sonata for Two Violins, performed by Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra violinists Heidi Brodwin and Lara Sipols. Eastman…
Media Contact: Alexander Peña, 585-490-1559, rocmusickids@gmail.com More Rochester students will have access to free after-school classical music instruction as the ROCmusic program expands to a second location in October. The collaborative outreach program, now in its fourth year, provides classical ensemble instruction and private instrumental lessons to economically disadvantaged communities and at-risk youth. Students ages…
ROCHESTER, N.Y.—Renée Fleming, the world’s most sought-after and beloved soprano, has been appointed Distinguished Visiting Artist at the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester. “I am thrilled that Renée Fleming will be joining the University of Rochester’s fabulous Eastman School of Music as a Distinguished Visiting Artist,” said Joel Seligman, President and CEO of…
A $2 million commitment from Emmy-winning composer Jeff Beal and vocalist Joan Beal will launch the Beal Institute for Film Music and Contemporary Media at the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music, the couple’s alma mater, and build on the film legacy of the School’s founder, George Eastman. The Beal Institute will provide students…
Violinist Lynn Blakeslee, Professor Emerita at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester, died Monday, Aug. 10, while teaching at a chamber music festival and violin workshop at Schloss Raabs in Austria. Having played a concert at the conclusion of the festival, she died of an anaphylactic reaction to a hornet sting,…
The Eastman School of Music’s Faculty Artist Series, supported by Patricia Ward-Baker, kicks off the 2015-2016 season with five straight days of recitals beginning Tuesday, Sept. 1. Held in the School’s acoustically superb Hatch Recital and Kilbourn Halls, the series will feature 30 of the School’s renowned artist teachers, performers, and composers. The recitals give…