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March 6th-12th: “Stravinsky Week” at Eastman
Back to This Week at Eastman 1966: “Stravinsky Week” at Eastman Fifty seven years ago this week, five days in March, 1966 were officially known as “Stravinsky Week” at the Eastman School of Music,...
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March 13th-19th: Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers
Back to This Week at Eastman 1971: Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers staged in the Eastman Theater Isabella with Mustafa, the Bey of Algiers, who wants her. ► R1170-14A, R1170-15A, R1170-16A...
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March 20th-26th: Fennell conducts the U of R Symphony Band
Back to This Week at Eastman 1936: Fennell conducts the U of R Symphony Band Frederick Fennell, aged 21, conducting the members of the University of Rochester Symphony Band in the Eastman Theater in...
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March 27th- April 2nd:The “Q” Club makes its dramatic debut in Kilbourn Hall
Back to This Week at Eastman 1939: The “Q” Club makes its dramatic debut in Kilbourn Hall Eighty-four years ago this week, on the evening of Saturday, April 1st, 1939, a select group of Eastman...
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April 3rd- 8th: Sir Georg Solti conducts the Eastman Philharmonia
Back to This Week at Eastman 1987: Sir Georg Solti conducts the Eastman Philharmonia Marquee outside the Eastman School of Music, promoting Maestro Solti’s guest appearance with the Eastman...
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April 10th-16th: Milestone production of The Marriage of Figaro
Back to This Week at Eastman 1948: Milestone production of The Marriage of Figaro Seventy-five years ago this week, on April 10th and 12th, 1948, Mozart’s beloved comic opera The Marriage of Figaro...
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April 17th-23rd: Tribute to Rayburn Wright: three decades of Eastman Jazz
Back to This Week at Eastman 1990: Tribute to Rayburn Wright: three decades of Eastman Jazz Previously in “This Week at Eastman” I’ve featured some of the various types of gatherings that happen at...
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April 24th-30th: An eclectic operatic double-bill at the Festival of American...
Back to This Week at Eastman 1959: An eclectic operatic double-bill at the Festival of American Music Two pistols drawn—and a man staggering backwards, mortally wounded by gunfire—these frontier...
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June 26th-July 3rd: Opening of the ESM’s first Summer Session
Back to This Week at Eastman 1922: Opening of the Eastman School’s first Summer Session One hundred and one years ago this week at Eastman, on the morning of Monday, June 26th, 1922, the Eastman...
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Arthur Farwell
More Displays Online exhibit from the Ruth T. Watanabe Special Collections; curated by Gail E. Lowther. Today, the composer Arthur Farwell (1872–1952) is best remembered as a leading figure in the...
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