ACDA Eastman Chapter

We are just ONE WEEK away from the Eastman Conductors Concert! It will be a rare opportunity to hear conductors from the Eastman School of Music perform as soloists on their own instruments!

This concert is being held to help raise funds for the Bach St. Matthew Passion on Mar. 25, 2017, performed by Voices and conducted by David Chin.

Happy Holidays from the Eastman Choirs! Hope you get some time to relax!

Hang in there, choral friends!! ♪♫ ~*

Eastman Women's Chorus and Eastman Repertory Singers are going to have a great concert this Friday! Come see the conducting debuts of MM Colin Mann and DMA Ben Johns! It's going to be awesome!

Join the Women's Chorus and Repertory Singers celebrating music of Vaughan Williams, Henry Purcell, Benjamin Britten and many more on this Friday, November 9, 8pm, in Kilbourn Hall at the Eastman School of Music. Free Admission.

Voices, Rochester’s professional vocal ensemble, will present "Brahms and Beyond: An Evening of Romantic Song" on Friday, October 7 at 7:30 pm at Asbury First United Methodist Church, 1040 East Avenue. The evening will consist of vocal chamber music and choruses by Johannes Brahms, Clara and Robert Schumann, and Heinrich von Herzogenberg. The pianist will be Jeremy Vigil, and the conductor will be Voices Music Director William Weinert. The concert is free and open to the public. There will be a freewill offering.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) is well-known for the subtlety, imagination, and beauty of his writing for voices. Like many of his contemporaries, he often set poems of the Romantic era centered on love, nature, and the seasons. His career was launched through the enthusiasm of the composers Robert and Clara Schumann, and he remained a close friend of Clara Schumann for many years. Herzogenberg, another close friend of Brahms, was influenced by both Brahms and the Schumanns.

Voices is a professional vocal ensemble consisting of Western New York’s finest solo and ensemble singers. They have appeared frequently in concerts and broadcasts since 2007, singing music from the Renaissance through the 21st century. Recent performances have included the "Mass in B-minor" and the "St. John Passion" of J. S. Bach

Check out the updated Eastman-Rochester Choirs website and see what we're singing this season!

Eastman Rochester Choirs

Thank you, Robert Page.

http://www.post-gazette.com/news/obituaries/2016/08/08/Obituary-Robert-Page-Renowned-choral-conductor-musician-and-educator/stories/202001010049

Obituary: Robert Page / Renowned choral conductor, musician and educator For all of conductor Robert Page’s accolades, there may be no better example of his prowess in choral music than this: He improved a Robert Shaw choir. That would be the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. The illustrious Shaw had left a few years before Mr. Page took over in 1971, and he had to work to do…

Such an important lesson for all artists.

"A rejection doesn't mean you failed. It means you tried. Try again."

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/28/rejection-helps-jk-rowling-james-dyson-success?CMP=share_btn_fb

The only way to achieve anything is to become comfortable with rejection. Here’s how | Linda Blair From JK Rowling to James Dyson, famous creators have felt the pain of failure. When we know how to learn from it, it becomes fuel for success

COMBINING FORCES: Ann Howard Jones talks about Brahms’s Ein deutsches Requiem [caption id=attachment_19116 align=alignnone width=500] Boston University Symphony Orchestra[/caption] Ann Howard Jones conducting the Boston University Symphony Orchestra by Andrea Schuler, Summer@Eastman Program Coordinator Summer@Eastman’s Advanced Choral Conducting institute is a perennial stude…

For your listening pleasure, a stunning performance by the Eastman Chorale.

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil | Eastman Chorale William Weinert, conductor February 27, 2016 St. Mary's Church, Rochester, New York