The Marine Band will provide music for the Inauguration swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol, lead the second division of the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue, and perform at the Salute to the Armed Forces Inaugural ball. “The President’s Own” is the only musical unit to participate in all three events.

From left, Master Sergeant David Murray ’96E (MM),  percussion; Staff Sergeant Rachel Perry ’13E (MM),�� saxophone; Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Maloy ’89E,��percussion; Master Gunnery Sergeant Matthew Harding ’96E,��solo cornet; Master Sergeant Glenn Paulson ’89E, percussion; Staff Sergeant Trevor Mowry ’11E,��coprincipal oboe; Master Sergeant Michelle Urzynicok ’94,��clarinet; Gunnery Sergeant Steven Owen ’97E (MM ), ’00E (DMA), percussion; Staff Sergeant Lucia Disano ’11E, clarinet; Gunnery Sergeant William Bernier ’89E,��clarinet; and Master Sergeant Michael Mergen ’98 E (MM), cornet and trumpet.

Mary Jo Health ’88E (Phd) at Eastman School of Music

Metropolitan Opera radio host and announcer Mary Jo Heath encouraged Eastman’s graduates to “get comfortable with the idea of being uncomfortable,” and to put themselves “in the path of inspiration.”

Kelly Hall-Tompkins ’93E at Manhattan School of Music

After receiving an honorary doctorate from the Manhattan School of Music, violinist Dr. Kelly Hall-Tompkins explained that her seeming failures helped pave the way to her successful career. She encouraged graduates to “embrace the diverse paths” that may take them where they want to go. Her address begins at 1:17:26.

As a political analyst and professor of political science at Tulane University, Harris-Perry’s address will focus on racial issues, religious questions, and gender concerns related to American politics.

“Dr. Harris-Perry brings a range of topics to her television audiences, including the segment Foot Soldiers, where she pays special tribute to activists who make selfless contributions to their communities,” said Norman Burnett, dean and director of the Office of Minority Student Affairs and chair of the College Diversity Roundtable. “These individuals perform heroically, under the radar, without recognition or acclaim. It is in this traditional spirit of acknowledging the social justice acts of others that makes it fitting for Dr. Harris-Perry to join us in celebrating Dr. King’s legacy.”

In addition to her show, which airs from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and Sundays on MSNBC, Harris-Perry writes the monthly column, Sister Citizen, for The Nation and provides commentary on Politics Nation with Reverend Al Sharpton,��The Rachel Maddow Show, and The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell. She is a regular contributor on Keeping it Real Radio with Sharpton, and other print and radio venues in the U.S. and abroad.

At Tulane, Harris-Perry is the founding director of the . The project investigates how gender and race intersect to shape women’s influence on government in the South, and includes student research opportunities, a postdoctoral program, seminars for faculty and students, and the annual Anna Julia Cooper Lecture. She also teaches the course, Black Women’s Political Activism, which uses the history of African American women’s political activism to illuminate questions of participation in American politics.

In her new book,��(Yale 2011), Harris-Perry argues that persistent harmful stereotypes can limit black women’s ability to participate in the political process. Her first book, Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, won the 2005 W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists and 2005 Best Book Award from the Race and Ethnic Politics Section of the American Political Science Association.

In 2009, Harris-Perry became the youngest scholar to deliver the W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures at Harvard University, and in the same year, became the youngest women to deliver the prestigious Ware Lecture. Harris-Perry received a bachelor’s degree in English from Wake Forest University, a doctoral degree in political science from Duke University, and studied theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York. She also received an honorary doctorate from Meadville Lombard Theological School. She has served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Princeton University.

The annual address, which kicks-off the University’s Black History Month celebration by recognizing the legacy and influence of King’s Life, is co-sponsored by the College Diversity Roundtable and the Office of the President.

Note to Editors: Press availability with Harris-Perry will be scheduled from 3 to 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 17, in the Frederick Douglass Leadership House, located on Wilson Boulevard on the Fraternity Quadrangle. Advanced interviews also can be scheduled by e-mailing Melissa Greco Lopes at mgrecolo@ur.rochester.edu or calling 585.276.3693.

The 150th anniversary of the birth of Claude Debussy has already been celebrated this year in major music centers on both sides of the Atlantic: Brussels, Paris, Montreal, and London. This fall in Rochester, audiences can look forward to enjoying “the kaleidoscopic work of Debussy, one of the most innovative composers who ever lived,” said Marie Rolf, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies at the Eastman School of Music and an internationally known expert on the French composer.

A multifaceted festival, titled “The Prismatic Debussy,” will be held at the URochester’s Eastman School throughout the month of October. “Faculty and students from the entire School will be joined by guest artists and scholars to collaborate in what promises to be an immensely rich musical experience,” said Rolf, who is also the festival’s Artistic Director. From an exhibition of original Debussy manuscripts in the School’s Sibley Music Library to a new spin on Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, the celebration features a multitude of concerts and presentations — including premieres of early works and new arrangements of beloved standards — that explore the wide range of Debussy’s music.  All events are free and open to the public.

The festival’s opening event is “Extravagant Debussy,” a gala concert at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13, in Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre. The Eastman Philharmonia, Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Eastman Chorale will perform several works, including the composer’s early orchestral suite Printemps and the last two acts of his seldom-heard theater piece Le Martyre de saint Sébastien (The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian). Rolf will set the stage for the concert with lavish video projections, fascinating anecdotes, and excerpts from Debussy’s own writings.

Eastman’s contemporary ensemble Musica Nova performs “Inspirational Debussy” at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 17, in Kodak Hall. The concert couples music by Pierre Boulez, one of the many composers influenced by Debussy, with world premieres of four new works by Eastman composers that were inspired by Debussy’s piano prelude “Des pas sur la neige” (“Footprints in the Snow”).

Then, at 7 p.m. and again at 9 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 20, in Hatch Recital Hall, several Eastman chamber groups perform “Intimate Debussy,” a PRISM concert in which transcriptions of Debussy’s works are presented in uninterrupted succession from different locations around the venue.

Panels from famed comic-book artist P. Craig Russell’s treatment of Pelléas et Mélisande will accompany a freshly reworked rendition of Debussy’s operatic masterpiece at 8 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26, in Kodak Hall. Titled “Pelléas Redux,” the performance replaces the singers and symphony orchestra with a chamber ensemble composed of Eastman faculty, alumni, and friends. Russell, who has based several of his comic books on famous operas, will talk about his work at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Memorial Art Gallery. (“Comic Book Debussy”)

The festival draws to a close on Saturday, Oct. 27, with a day-long session on “Debussy Premieres” that combines scholarship and performance. In the morning, a panel of international scholars will offer insights on five newly discovered and reconstructed songs by Debussy. Noted operatic soprano Elizabeth Calleo and pianist Russell Miller will present the North American premiere of four songs and the world public premiere of the fifth. The afternoon session will link, via Internet2, faculty and students from the Eastman School of Music, Calleo, and participants from London’s Royal College of Music for a master class that will focus on Debussy’s early songs.

For the duration of the festival from Oct. 1 through 27, the School’s Sibley Music Library — the largest academic music library in North America — will hold an exhibition of “Debussy Treasures.” Visitors will be able to see original Debussy manuscripts and other rare materials, including Debussy’s complete working draft of his orchestral La Mer and an arrangement of “Minstrels” for violin and piano that the composer made for Arthur Hartmann, who later taught at Eastman in the early 1920s.

More information about “The Prismatic Debussy” festival can be found online at .

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Saturday, October 13

The Prismatic Debussy: Extravagant Debussy. Eastman School Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, Eastman Wind Ensemble, Eastman Chorale. Printemps; Marche écossaise; Sarabande; Hommage à Rameau; Nocturnes; Acts IV and V from Le Martyre de saint Sébastien. Neil Varon, Mark Davis Scatterday, William Weinert, conductors.

8 PM

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St.

Free

Wednesday, October 17

The Prismatic Debussy: Inspirational Debussy, Musica Nova. The Debussy Project: Music by Eastman composers Liptak, Lubman, Sanchez-Gutierrez and Schindler, inspired by Debussy’s “Des pas sur la neige”; Boulez: É��������; Boulez: ��é���ǰ���������. Brad Lubman, conductor.

8 PM

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St.

Free

Saturday, October 20

The Prismatic Debussy: Intimate Debussy. Non-stop surround-sound experience of chamber works in transcription.

7 and 9 PM

Hatch Recital Hall. NOTE: plan to arrive early, venue is expected to fill up quickly.

Free

October 25

The Prismatic Debussy: Comic-Book Debussy. A conversation with P. Craig Russell.

7 PM

Memorial Art Gallery, 500 University Ave.

Free

Friday, October 26

The Prismatic Debussy: Theatrical Debussy. A fresh look at Pelléas et Melisande.

8 PM

Kodak Hall at Eastman Theatre, 60 Gibbs St.

Free

Saturday, October 27

The Prismatic Debussy: Debussy Premieres. Scholarship and performance enrich each other: five recently discovered songs.

9:30 AM to 5 PM

Hatch Recital Hall, 433 East Main St.

Free

Additional

Oct 1-27

Debussy Treasures. An exhibit of Debussy manuscripts, including his complete working draft of La Mer and his arrangement of “Minstrels” for violin and piano for Arthur Hartmann

Sibley Music Library at the Eastman School of Music

27 Gibbs St.

Library hours: Monday through Thursday: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.; Friday: 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturday: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sunday: 1 to 11 p.m.

Free