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Back to This Week at Eastman<\/a><\/p>\n

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Sixty years ago this week, the members of the Eastman Philharmonia were approaching the end of their landmark three-month tour.\u00a0 The days in in mid-February found them in Kiev, where they spent four full days altogether, and then moving on to Leningrad for their last scheduled performances. \u00a0Exactly at this time the Eastman Philharmonia and their accompanying entourage were joined by Mr. Hamilton B. Allen, Theater Editor for the Rochester Times-Union, <\/em>which at that time was one of Rochester\u2019s two daily newspapers.\u00a0 Mr. Hamilton was with the orchestra in Lvov and Kiev, and wrote several articles about the orchestra members\u2019 activities in that part of the USSR, copies of which are preserved in scrapbooks in the Sibley Music Library vault.\u00a0 His stories read as though deliberately worded for an interested but general readership that would inevitably include readers who were not not well versed in matters of classical music and performance.\u00a0 Mr. Allen\u2019s observations on logistics of travel in the Soviet Union were no doubt read with interest at this time when the realities of the Cold War meant that comparatively few Americans would ever journey behind the Iron Curtain. Mr. Allen\u2019s reporting also underscored the ever-present realization that these young musicians were doing something that no other academic orchestra from the U.S.A. had ever done, a point that had already engendered a huge amount of pride back home in Rochester.\u00a0 One item of happy news that Mr. Allen shared was that two separate couples had announced their engagements during the tour.<\/p>\n

As has been the case all along, the most vivid details of life during the tour have come from the travel journal of bassoonist Richard Rodean, BM \u201962, MM \u201964.\u00a0 Reading Mr. Rodean\u2019s entries, one can appreciate the numerous ways that Philharmonia members were taking advantage of the opportunities to further themselves as musicians: seeking out music shops to expand their personal libraries with scores and recordings that were difficult to obtain back home; meeting and conferring with other instrumentalists and members of other orchestras whenever possible; and attending performances whenever time permitted. \u00a0In addition, Philharmonia members regularly used whichever other acquired language(s) at their disposal to bridge the language barrier; in Mr. Rodean\u2019s case, that was German, and he appears to have used it effectively in several destinations throughout the tour.\u00a0 While in Kiev, Mr. Rodean met with the bassoon instructor from the city conservatory and visited with the bassoon students.\u00a0 When the Eastman Philharmonia gave a concert later that evening, one of the students attended the concert and made a gift of music to Mr. Rodean, a gesture that the latter deeply appreciated.\u00a0 Mr. Rodean also recorded that Dr. Fennell concluded the Philharmonia\u2019s last rehearsal in Kiev by conducting the orchestra members in the closing bars of \u201cThe Great Gate of Kiev\u201d from Mussorgsky\u2019s Pictures at an Exhibition <\/em>\u201c. . . just to be able to say we played it in Kiev.\u201d\u00a0 Also in Kiev, several members of the Philharmonia attended a performance of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, which was just then travelling on tour; the concert featured featuring Mstislav Rostropovich as soloist in Prokofiev\u2019s Symphony-Concerto for Cello and Orchestra; both orchestra and soloist left a huge impression on Mr. Rodean.\u00a0 He also commented on the orchestra members\u2019 manner of entering and leaving the stage in a \u201ctotally uniform\u201d manner (\u201cIt was all done very formally\u201d), so different from American orchestras\u2019 practice of the musicians entering the stage at will and warming up on-stage. The following morning, members of the Leningrad Philharmonic attended the Eastman Philharmonia rehearsal.<\/p>\n

On February 17th the Philharmonia members flew to Leningrad. \u00a0Immediately upon arrival, Mr. Rodean sought out a music store to continue his music acquisitions.\u00a0 The following morning he spotted composer Dmitri Kabalevsky at breakfast; the renowned composer happened to be a guest in the same hotel at the very same time.\u00a0 Sightseeing in Leningrad included all of the major sites: on February 19th, the Fortress of Peter the Great;\u00a0 St. Isaac\u2019s Cathedral; the Decembrists\u2019 Square (today known as the Senate Square); the Palace Square (which is the city\u2019s central square); the St. Nicholas Naval Cathedral; and then on February 20th, spending the bulk of the day at the Hermitage.\u00a0 As he had done in other cities, Mr. Rodean recounted taking a walking tour on his own to explore the city of Leningrad.<\/p>\n

The Eastman Philharmonia gave three concerts in Leningrad\u2014on the evenings of February 19th, 20th, and 21st.\u00a0 These were the last scheduled performances of the tour, the orchestra\u2019s farewell to their Russian audiences. \u00a0Next stop:\u00a0 Moscow.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” gap=”10″][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1643388950439{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_images_carousel images=”12125,12126,12127,12128,12129,12130,12131,12132″ img_size=”320×400″ css=”.vc_custom_1644603140125{margin-top: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]\u25ba program, Leningrad, February 19, 1962<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1644603286906{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_images_carousel images=”12133,12134,12135,12136,12137,12138,12139,12140″ img_size=”320×400″ css=”.vc_custom_1644603148717{margin-top: 5px !important;margin-bottom: 5px !important;margin-left: 5px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]\u25ba program, Leningrad, February 21, 1962<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1644603297329{background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”12144″ img_size=”medium” add_caption=”yes” onclick=”link_image”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1644596458055{margin-top: 30px !important;}”][vc_column css=”.vc_custom_1728418812771{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text=”1982: Isaac Stern master class” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left” use_theme_fonts=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1644596483844{border-right-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 0px !important;border-left-color: #dddddd !important;border-left-style: solid !important;border-right-color: #dddddd !important;border-right-style: solid !important;border-bottom-color: #dddddd !important;border-bottom-style: solid !important;border-radius: 1px !important;}”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_images_carousel images=”12067,12068,12069″ img_size=”medium” css=”.vc_custom_1644596767123{margin-top: 0px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;margin-left: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][vc_column_text css=””]\u25ba Violinist Isaac Stern enjoying conversation with Eastman School faculty members. From left to right: Charles Castleman, Isaac Stern, Zvi Zeitlin, RPO Music Director David Zinman, Donald Weilerstein. R3063-6A; R3063-7A; R3063-9A.
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Forty years ago this week, another distinguished artist drew a capacity crowd during a scheduled visit to the Eastman School of Music. \u00a0On February 19th, 1982, renowned violinist Isaac Stern (1920-2001) gave a master class in Room 120 (today the Ray Wright Room).\u00a0 Mr. Stern\u2019s life and reputation require no introduction here.\u00a0 At the time of this Eastman School visit, Mr. Stern was continuing to enjoy much favorable media coverage for his work in the 1979 documentary film From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China, <\/em>which had won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1981.<\/p>\n

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\u25ba Photos by Louis Ouzer.\u00a0 Master negatives nos. R3063, R3064, R3066.<\/p>\n

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\u25ba Violinist Isaac Stern addressing the assembled listeners during a master class at the Eastman School on February 19th, 1982. R3066-33; R3066-34; R3066-36. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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R3162-10.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1644594367615{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728480612163{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”12054″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1644595128233{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″ css=”.vc_custom_1728480621131{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”12055″ img_size=”medium” alignment=”center” style=”vc_box_border” onclick=”link_image” css=”.vc_custom_1644595152045{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”top” css=”.vc_custom_1644594568155{margin-top: -20px !important;margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1644594258724{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1728418836170{margin-left: 5px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}”]\u25ba Onlookers outside the Eastman School of Music react as they watch the demolition work in progress on the opposite side of Gibbs Street. 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Thirty-nine years ago this week, the complexion of Gibbs Street began to change as the block across the street from the Eastman School of Music \u2014 the block bounded by East Avenue to the south and by Main, Gibbs, and Chestnut Streets to the north, east, and west \u2014 began to be cleared of its buildings.\u00a0 The demolition of the properties on this city block was a significant step in Rochester\u2019s downtown revitalization and urban renewal of the 1980s.\u00a0 Moreover, clearing this city block represented a huge prospect for the Eastman School with the promise of a new, modern home for the Sibley Music Library.\u00a0 When the block had been cleared of all of the existing properties, the ground would be graded and seeded until definite plans had been laid for future development.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the initial discussions around this work was the need for a new building for the Sibley Music Library, which had occupied a Depression-era building on Swan Street since 1938.\u00a0 The growth of the SML\u2019s collections, and the increasing demand on the SML\u2019s resources and services in the face of climbing ESM enrollment, had visibly strained the SML building\u2019s infra-structure and had threatened the efficient delivery of library services.\u00a0 Staff members had had to resort to storing books, scores, and archival collections in the basement and in remote locations for want of shelf space.\u00a0 Such had been the reality at the dawn of the decade of the 1970s; now, in early 1983, the prospect of improvement was at last on the horizon.<\/p>\n

At the time that demolition began, plans for a new building on this city block were just one component of a larger project that was being called Metro Center.\u00a0 The new Metro Center would encompass an actual district of downtown Rochester with the Eastman School at its heart, and would offer retail, commercial, and entertainment opportunities around the Eastman School.\u00a0 As plans for the Eastman Place building (today Miller Center) were developed, the concept of the plan was adjusted and the name Metro Center was dropped, but the understanding that revitalization of this part of downtown with the central purpose of serving the Eastman School\u2019s needs remained.<\/p>\n

The Gibbs Street demolition work was promoted to the extended Eastman School community in the April, 1983 issue of Eastman Notes<\/em>).<\/p>\n

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\u25ba\u00a0Photos by Louis Ouzer.\u00a0 Master negatives nos. R3162, R3164, R3165.<\/p>\n

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\u25ba Two shots of the corner of Main and Gibbs Streets, taken from the north, before demolition of this side of the city block. The site of the old Mugs Up caf\u00e9 is now the site of the Miller Center Courtyard where a sculpture of the William Warfield is mounted.R3162-15; R3162-16.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this week\u2019s \u201cWeekly Dozen\u201d we recognize an interesting Graduation Concert with Orchestra that featured four vocalists all performing Russian opera (most likely due to the influence of Russian-born Nicholas Konraty on the Voice Department faculty); distinguished guest artists in voice and duo piano; a performance of a dramatic legend; celebrations of the lives of two men \u2014 one a conductor and arranger, the other a composer and author \u2014 who made singular contributions to life in and around the Eastman School; and some superlative student performances such as grace the Eastman concert calendar each week of the semester.<\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 21, 1945: Second Graduation Concert with Orchestra <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 15, 1956: Eastman School Symphony Orchestra I <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 17, 1967: Eastman Wind Ensemble<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 13, 1969: Jennie Tourel, soprano with Brooks Smith, pianist
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\u25baFebruary 14, 1974: Yarborough and Cowan, duo pianists<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 18, 1977: Carolyn Lucille Zahner, oboe and English horn<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 13, 1979: A Schumann Recital<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 15, 1979: Snow Leopard<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 18, 1980: Eastman Trombones<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 17, 1981: L\u2019histoire du soldat <\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u25baFebruary 13, 1991: Alec Wilder Celebration
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\u25baFebruary 16, 1991; PRISM: In celebration of the life of Rayburn Wright<\/strong><\/p>\n

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