Carillon bells restored after 40 years of service
The familiar sound of the bells in tower of Rush Rhees Library will be silenced for the next few weeks, while parts of the Hopeman Memorial Carillon are under restoration.
Eastman School of Music announces new master’s degree in music leadership
Eastman alumni lead many of the country’s most prestigious traditional and non-traditional musical arts organization. A new master’s program is designed to enable the next generation of music leaders.
What we learn when a machine ‘listens’ to Miles Davis
Two undergraduates are spending their summer analyzing a recording that was first released nearly four decades before they were born.
With automatic transcription, musicians can save themselves the treble
Two undergraduates have joined a summer research project focused on building a machine-learning interface that generates musical scores from audio files.
A musical feast
The Gateways Music Festival, with an orchestra composed entirely of professional classical musicians of African descent, deepens its partnership with the Eastman School of Music. This year’s festival begins on August 8.
5 questions: Meet new conductor Rachel Waddell
Waddell joins the faculty of the Department of Music as the director of orchestral activities. She will teach and also conduct both the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras.
Walking in Thoreau’s footsteps
Raymond Borst ’33 assembled one of the most extensive collections of Henry David Thoreau publications in the world, then gave it to the University.
Eastman musicians hit Jazz Fest stages
Current students, faculty, staff, and alumni of the Eastman School of Music will be appearing throughout this week’s Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival.
Jennifer Grotz will direct Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences
Poet Jennifer Grotz, a professor of English, has been named the next director of the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. She is the first woman to serve as director of the oldest American conference for writers.
If you build it, they will learn
How do you learn to play an instrument comprised of 50 bells that lives at the top of a library tower? Practice, practice, practice. A student team has finished building a new digital carillon that will allow students to learn to play tough pieces while hearing real carillon sounds.