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Kodak Hall, Eastman School of Music

Eastman School of Music, conservatory of music in Rochester, N.Y., U.S. Founded in 1913, the D.K.G. School of Musical Art (so named for Messrs. Dossenbach, Klingenberg, and Gareissen, the three directors of the institute) was soon after purchased by George Eastman, who donated it to the University of Rochester with an endowment fund. The new Eastman School of Music opened in 1921. Howard Hanson, its principal director (1924–64), built it into a world-renowned institution. Eastman’s annual…

[caption id=attachment_14104 align=alignnone width=710] A student plays piccolo trumpet in the Eastman Chamber Orchestra.[/caption] [caption id=attachment_14105 align=alignnone width=710] Craighead-Saunders Organ, named after Eastman organ professors David Craighead and Russell Saunders, was inaugurated in 2007.[/caption] [caption id=attachment_14106 align=alignnone width=710] String players in the Eastman Chamber Orchestra practice a new technique for performing baroque music.[/caption]…

Industrialist George Eastman built his eponymous and opulent theater in 1922 as a fundraising movie palace, its proceeds going to his namesake music conservatory (based at the University of Rochester, New York). The voluminous performance space, designed by McKim, Mead & White, originally contained 3,352 seats, a Maxfield Parrish painting, and a 35-foot-tall chandelier that weighed 5,000 pounds. All students at the Eastman School of Music have the opportunity to perform in the space, renamed…

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Eastman School of Music

Eastman Theatre is the primary performance space for Eastman School of Music students, home of the RPO, and host for world-renowned performances.

The Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music will be exhibiting the University of Rochester Press titles from Sep 5th - Oc 24th to celebrate the 25th anniversary of #urpress. The Eastman Studies in Music & the Eastman/Rochester Studies in Ethnomusicology are two series that the #urpress has in conjunction with the Eastman School. Eastman Studies in Music - http://boybrew.co/urpeastmanstudiesinmusic Eastman/Rochester Studies in | Ethnomusicology…

[caption id=attachment_6601 align=alignnone width=500] East Wing Facade[/caption] [caption id=attachment_6105 align=alignnone width=500] Standing on the stairs in Wolk Atrium, Dean Douglas Lowry welcomes the community to the new East Wing.[/caption] [caption id=attachment_6107 align=alignnone width=500] View of Hatch Recital Hall from the stage into the audience.[/caption] [caption id=attachment_6109 align=alignnone width=500] Looking down on Hatch Recital Hall from the balcony.[/caption]…

Kodak Hall at the Eastman Theater. Rochester NY.

To those with a passion for it, music is everywhere. The roar of cars speeding down a road, the thump of clothes in the dryer,...

The Avangrid Foundation has committed $400,000 to the project to renovate the historic space, and the Kenneth and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation Inc. will contribute $300,000.

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