The performance continues a series of popular operas in concert at Kodak Hall
David Raymond
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Set sail with the Eastman-Rochester Chorus and Eastman Philharmonia
Free performance of “A Sea Symphony,” inspired by the work of Walt Whitman, will take place this Friday.
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Eastman Opera Theatre presents its first Spanish-language work with ‘Florencia en el Amazonas’
A box-office success, the Gabriel García Márquez inspired ‘Florencia’ comes to Rochester through April 2.
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Imani Winds clears the path for BIPOC composers with Eastman School concert
The chamber music group Imani Winds continues to champion composers of color with its program “Black and Brown” at Kilbourn Hall Thursday.
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Album review: ‘Sound and Resound’ by Lisa Albrecht
The album from RPO’s Second Trombone Lisa Albrecht features music worth discovering, including works by Charles Ives and Peter Schickele.
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CLASSICAL | Pegasus Early Music presents ‘The Panther and the Rose’ [ CANCELED ]
[ THIS CONCERT HAS BEEN CANCELED ] Trecento (fourteenth-century) Italian music is “complicated, beautiful, astonishing, with a freshness that still sounds compelling,” Pegasus Early Music’s Artistic Director Deborah Fox says. “The Panther and the Rose” is a program of Trecento vocal pieces and dances by Johannes Ciconia, Francesco Landini, Donato di Firenze, and others that […]
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Guitarist Jason Vieaux returns to Rochester [ CONCERT CANCELED ]
Award-winning classical guitarist Jason Vieaux performs throughout the world, but Rochester played an important part in his early studies. He returns to give a solo recital on March 21.
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CLASSICAL | Society for Chamber Music in Rochester’s ‘Baroque and Blue’
The formality of Baroque music and the directness of the blues are a winning combination for the Society for Chamber Music in Rochester. The group has presented several concerts with this theme, and has another coming up this Sunday at Hochstein Performance Hall. For the 2020 installment, the Baroque representatives are a trumpet sonata by […]
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Opera review: RPO presents “The Mother of Us All”
When Virgil Thomson died in 1989, Leonard Bernstein’s reaction was something to the effect of “We all loved his music, but we never played it.” I doubt that Ward Stare would have bothered to present Thomson’s opera “The Mother of Us All” unless he believed in it completely,
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CLASSICAL | Hochstein Centennial Orchestra Concert
The Hochstein School opened on January 2, 1920 in tribute to Rochester-born violinist David Hochstein, who was killed in World War I. A hundred years later, Hochstein serves approximately 3,500 students. Quite a few of them will take the stage for the school’s rousing centennial celebration this Sunday afternoon. All four Hochstein youth orchestras will […]
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CLASSICAL | Pegasus Early Music: ‘Nevertheless, She Persisted’
The 17th and 18th centuries were enlivened by some persistent and talented women composers and performers, all of them more or less erased by history until recently. This weekend’s Pegasus Early Music concert features a potpourri of instrumental pieces, songs, and opera excerpts by five such women: Barbara Strozzi, Antonia Bembo, Isabella Leonarda, Julie Pinel, […]
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Susan B. at the symphony
This year’s observances of Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday celebration and the centenary of the 19th Amendment are momentous events, but at first glance they may not seem to inspire musical celebrations – but the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra is prepared to prove otherwise this weekend and next.
