{"id":25256,"date":"2020-06-16T17:28:54","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T17:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/adv\/eastman-centennial\/?page_id=25256"},"modified":"2022-02-17T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:41:10","slug":"100-years","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/eastman-centennial\/100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"100 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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100 Years<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Eastman School of Music<\/span><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]We all have a voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

A sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

A beautiful note.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner row_type=”row” type=”grid” use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=”no” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column_inner offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

100 Years<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Eastman School of Music<\/span><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”10px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text]We all have a voice.<\/span><\/p>\n

A sound.<\/span><\/p>\n

A beautiful note.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=”185px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”50px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1598548606542{padding-top: 5px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: #ffc70a !important;}”]It rises from deep inside us. It cannot be contained. It never settles. It will not rest until it is heard. We have no choice but to follow our path. To let the notes flow out from within. The Eastman School of Music has nurtured this journey, the voices, the sounds, the notes for 100 years.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eastman is home to talented musicians who never stop believing. Who are as intense as they are inspiring. Who balance raw ambition with a genuine sense of care. Who want to share the spotlight as much as they want to stand inside it. To be a part of Eastman is to be a part of improving life. Because music is life ever better<\/strong>.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”50px” image_repeat=”no-repeat”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=”row” use_row_as_full_screen_section=”no” type=”grid” text_align=”left” css_animation=”” box_shadow_on_row=”no”][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Eastman: A Century in Photographs<\/h2>\n

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Centennial timeline<\/h2>\n

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September 19, 1921<\/h2>
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Opening of the Eastman School of Music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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March 4, 1922<\/h2>
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Kilbourn Hall dedication and first concert.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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June 19, 1922<\/h2>
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Marion Eccleston and Roslyn Weisberg are the first persons to be conferred with the Bachelor of Music degree.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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September 2, 1922<\/h2>
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Eastman Theatre (Kodak Hall) opens.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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November 20, 1924<\/h2>
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First Eastman opera performance (scenes from Boris Godunov<\/em> and Pagliacci).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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May 1, 1925<\/h2>
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First American Composers’ Concert.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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September 1925<\/h2>
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Opening of the first residence halls for Eastman students.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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December 23, 1925<\/h2>
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First live music broadcast from the Eastman School via station WHAM. The school was a pioneer in the broadcasting of live classical music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1926<\/h2>
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Establishment of the graduate department. Eight postgraduates were enrolled in 1927-28. Five of them sat for this photograph which was published in the 1928 yearbook.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1927<\/h2>
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Opening of the Annex on Swan Street to provide additional classrooms and practice rooms.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1927<\/h2>
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Formal organization of Eastman’s preparatory department in recognition of the growing numbers of children and adults coming to the school for non-degree study.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1931<\/h2>

Eastman School Symphony Orchestra becomes the first student orchestra to give a series of nationally broadcast concerts over the National Broadcasting Company network.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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May 19 – 22, 1931<\/h2>
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First Festival of American Music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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June 20, 1932<\/h2>
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Black composer R. Nathaniel Dett is awarded a master’s degree.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1934<\/h2>
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Establishment of the Eastman School recording department, one of the earliest such endeavors in any school of music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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February 10, 1938<\/h2>
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Opening of the Swan Street Sibley Library building, the first building specifically constructed to house a music collection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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November 1, 1939<\/h2>
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Release by RCA Victor of the first recording of American music by Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Orchestra. For more than twenty years American music continued to be recorded at the Eastman School.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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April 16, 1946<\/h2>
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First public jazz performance in Kilbourn Hall, when alumnus and faculty member, Jack End and his student ensemble took the stage to offer a \u201cProgram of Concert Music in the Jazz Idiom\u201d in that year\u2019s Festival of American Music.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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February 8, 1953<\/h2>
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Debut performance of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Frederick Fennell.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1953<\/h2>
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Release of “American Concert Band Masterpieces,” the first of more than forty recordings for Mercury Records made by the Eastman Wind Ensemble, conducted by Frederick Fennell. First recording made on May 14; release in early Fall 1953.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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June 12, 1955<\/h2>
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Conferral of the first Doctor of Musical Arts degree to Will Gay Bottje (Composition).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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September 1955<\/h2>
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Opening of the first residence hall for Eastman male students (Monroe Hall on Prince Street).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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October 24, 1958<\/h2>
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Debut concert by the Eastman Philharmonia, with Howard Hanson conducting.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1960<\/h2>

Establishment of Eastman\u2019s Collegium Musicum Ensemble.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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August 1, 1960<\/h2>
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Eastman hosts first Arrangers\u2019 Holiday concert, in conjunction with the annual Arrangers\u2019 Jazz Workshop (launched July 1959).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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October 17, 1961<\/h2>

Announcement that members of the Eastman School of Music faculty would receive academic rank similar to the other colleges and schools of the university.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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November 24, 1961<\/h2>
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Eastman Philharmonia leaves for a three-month tour of thirty-four cities in Europe and the Middle East, performing forty-nine concerts in ninety-three days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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March 7, 1966<\/h2>
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Igor Stravinsky begins a week-long residency at the Eastman School.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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November 18, 1966<\/h2>

Musica Nova, Eastman’s first performing group exclusively concerned with contemporary music, gives its first concert, directed by Richard Pittman.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1966<\/h2>
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Opening of the Eastman School electronic music studio, established by Wayne Barlow.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1970<\/h2>
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Rayburn Wright joins the faculty to chair a new department in Jazz and Contemporary Media.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1971<\/h2>
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Festivities begin in the fall to celebrate the school’s fiftieth anniversary, including recitals by violinist Henryk Szeryng (December 7, 1971), pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy (January 14, 1972),\u00a0 pianist Rudolf Serkin (March 15, 1972), and violinist Isaac Stern (May 3, 1972).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1972<\/h2>
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Gala re-opening of the Eastman Theatre following the first major renovation since the theater had opened fifty years earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1975<\/h2>
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Beginnings of a three-year renovation of the school’s facilities, which also involved the creation of new rehearsal and recital facilities (including Howard Hanson Hall and Schmitt Organ Recital Hall).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1976<\/h2>
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Twenty-year-old cellist Yo-Yo Ma makes his Eastman Theatre debut.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1977<\/h2>
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Claron McFadden is awarded the first William Warfield scholarship, established to provide financial assistance to talented Black voice students at Eastman.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1978<\/h2>
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Far Eastern tour of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Donald Hunsberger presenting concerts in Japan, Korea, and other countries over a period of forty-nine days.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1980<\/h2>
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The Eastman Philharmonia is selected to annually be the resident orchestra at the summer Heidelberg Castle Festival in Germany.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1980<\/h2>

The school’s preparatory department is renamed “The Community Education Division” to reflect the growing numbers of people of all ages who were seeking instruction for personal enrichment.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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September 1982<\/h2>

Seth McCoy, the first Black musician to hold a full-time teaching position at Eastman, joins the voice faculty.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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October 30, 1986<\/h2>
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Departure of the Eastman Philharmonia for a two-week tour of concerts in Germany (November 1-14) with Shura Cherkassky as soloist.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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March 1987<\/h2>
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Wynton Marsalis appears as soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble on a tour\u00a0of the Eastern U.S. cities and Canada. The tour coincided with the release that month of the recording\u00a0Carnaval! <\/em>(CBS Masterworks), featuring Wynton Marsalis as guest soloist with the EWE. In September, 1987, Billboard <\/em>Magazine reported that the Carnaval! <\/em>recording had reached the top of the chart in the classical category.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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May 15, 1989<\/h2>
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Formal opening on May 15 of the new Sibley Library in the newly constructed Eastman Place (later renamed Miller Center).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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May 28, 1990<\/h2>

Departure of the Eastman Wind Ensemble under the direction of Donald Hunsberger for the first of seven annual concert tours of Japan.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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January 1991<\/h2>
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Opening of the new Student Living Center at 100 Gibbs Street.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1992<\/h2>

Ellen Koskoff becomes director of the new Ethnomusicology program and founds Gamelan Lila Muni.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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1997<\/h2>
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Establishment of the Eastman Pathways program to provide scholarships to students in the Rochester city school system to enable them to take lessons in the school’s Community Education Division (soon to be renamed the Eastman Community Music School).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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2001<\/h2>
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Establishment of the Institute for Music Leadership.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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2002<\/h2>
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Establishment of EROI (Eastman-Rochester Organ Initiative).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n

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2004<\/h2>
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Celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Sibley Music Library, founded at the URochester as a community resource and later incorporated into the Eastman School.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n