Guitarist and Eastman School of Music professor Nicholas Goluses’s new release displays technical mastery with warmth and charisma.
Brenda Tremblay
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Remembering influential Rochester choral conductor Roger Wilhelm
Rochester conductor Roger Wilhelm — a titan of the local choral music community — has died at 84.
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Racial equity and the RPO: a thread
There’s more work to be done before the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra reflects the city it serves.
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CHORAL | American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Region Conference
[ Updated and revised ] From March 4 through 7, Rochester will be humming with vocalists from all over the northeast for the American Choral Directors Association’s Eastern Region Conference. Students, conductors, and aficionados will grapple with issues ranging from copyright law to working with LGBTQIA+ singers in daytime workshops (acdaeast.org.) On March 4, Bobby […]
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Commentary: RPO’s 2020-21 season has talented guests, lacks diversity
Here’s what WXXI-FM Classical 91.5’s hosts think about last week’s program announcement and what you should look for next season.
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Playing with Perlman
Classical Music Pianist Rohan De Silva flies to Rochester this week with violinist Itzhak Perlman to perform a benefit concert for Lifetime Assistance. One of his generation’s great collaborators, the Sri Lankan native has partnered with violinists Joshua Bell, Gil Shaham, and Midori. He spoke with Brenda Tremblay about successful partnerships and Vulcan mind melds. […]
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Classical: Mercury rising
The upstart opera company heads into Season
2 with high hopes
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Star search
Circling the sun on a spinning planet hurtling more than 70,000 miles per hour through space, Glenn McClure walked into an airport bookstore. He was bored. He scanned the shelves for something to occupy his mind during a flight to New York, and his eyes alighted on the black-and-white cover of a book, Galileo’s Daughter: […]
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Women’s work
A couple of years ago, Sylvie Beaudette conducted an experiment. In her music history class at Eastman, she played pieces by male and female composers from each major era (baroque, classical, romantic, etc.) back to back without revealing the composers’ gender. She paired an opera excerpt by Monteverdi with a cantata excerpt by Francesca Caccini. […]
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A diva takes action
Grammy Award-winning Jessye Norman flies to Rochester this week to sing a benefit concert for Action for a Better Community, a non-profit agency which helps local people in poverty. (It’s headed by her brother, James Norman.) In an interview, Ms. Norman reflected on the Grammys, her family, and Saturday chores with the Metropolitan Opera. City:Congratulations […]
