Musicians from the 75-member Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, directed by Casey Springstead, and Hochstein Philharmonia, directed by John Fetter, perform a joint concert.

Musicians from the 75-member Hochstein Youth Symphony Orchestra, directed by Casey Springstead, and Philharmonia, directed by John Fetter, perform a joint concert.

In the first half, Philharmonia performs Brahms’ Academic Festival Overture, Sibelius’ Finlandia, and Suite from the Star Wars Epic, parts I and II, by John Williams.

Then, the HYSO takes the stage to perform Rossini’s Overture to Semiramide; “Anitra's Dance” from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, with HYSO Conductor Apprentice Raymond Feng; Back to the Future Suite for Orchestra by Silvestri; and Suite No. 2 from De Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat. Hochstein Concerto Competition winner Amy Feng performs the first movement of Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor.

Tickets at the door: $5 general admission.

Works for one to six players concluding with Poulenc’s Sextet for Piano and Winds. Featuring Fem Vindar: Julie Smith, flute; Terry Smith, oboe; Marcy Bacon, clarinet; Kirsta Rodean, bassoon; Colleen Wolf, horn; with Doleen Hood, piano.

Admission at the door is $10 per person, with a $20 family maximum. A “meet the artists” reception follows the concert.

The Spotlight on Faculty concert series is generously supported by Hochstein donors. It is also made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
 

This event is supported by Wegmans Food Markets.

The Hochstein Youth Wind Symphony, directed by John Rolland, performs their winter concert of wind band music.

The program includes Slava! – as a tribute to Leonard Bernstein, who would have turned 100 this year – Vaughan Williams’ English Folk Song Suite, Kilimanjaro: An African Portrait by Robert Washburn, a wind band arrangement of the choral work “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morten Lauridsen, and “Apollo Unleashed” from Frank Ticheli’s Symphony No. 2.

Hochstein’s Youth Wind Symphony features woodwind, percussion, and brass players in grades 9–12. The ensemble meets for six weeks in January and February to prepare music for this concert. This concert is free and open to the public.

This special performance by Hochstein’s Chamber Music Connection ensembles benefits the Brighton Food Depot’s Backpack Program, which supplies 100 bags of kid-friendly items each month to needy children at several Rochester City schools.

During the concert, student piano and string ensembles will perform classical music. Admission is free with the donation of a non-perishable food item for the Brighton Food Depot’s pantry.

Specific kid-friendly items needed: vegetables, spaghetti sauce, boxed pasta, low-sugar cereal, peanut butter, jelly, mac-n-cheese, entree (any canned food with meat), canned fruit, and soup.

Statesman, orator, business and civic leader, and abolitionist Frederick Douglass made his home in Rochester for a generation. With this performance, the Rochester Oratorio Society mounts a Bicentennial commemoration of his life through readings, re-enactment, and music.

Renowned Douglass re-enactor and Nazareth College faculty member Dr. David Anderson offers renditions of some of Douglass’s most revered writings between sections from American composer Kirke Mechem’s settings entitled Songs of the Slave, from his opera, John Brown. Students from Rochester Public School #12, who memorize Douglass passages yearly, will recite them for the ROS audience.

The featured work on the program is The Emancipation Oratorio by world-renowned Geneseo composer Glenn McClure, which the Society commissioned and premiered in 2013. This exciting and moving piece combines texts by Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Frances Harper, and contemporary slave narratives in music employing Western instruments, African percussion, and Western New York folk instruments. The Rochester East High School Choir joins the ROS to close the program in rousing fashion with the gospel tune "Lord I’m free," by New York composer, Steve Dobrogosz. 

For tickets and more information, visit the Rochester Oratorio Society website.

The Roc Awards event provides Rochester an opportunity to honor its own for their continuous efforts in community service and involvement in the fields of Entertainment, Theater, Visual Arts, Fashion Design and Community Involvement.

Doors open at 4:00 pm.

Pricing before February 1, 2018 - $40 General Admission; after Feb. 1 - $50; VIP ticket (includes reception in Chapel, gift bag, preferred seating) - $70.

Tickets available at: Xquisite Boutique, 171 Monroe Ave, Rochester NY 14607 and online at https://www.tickettailor.com/checkout/view-event/id/126566/chk/ff13.

For more information, visit www.rocawards.com.

Celebrate the Landmark Society's 80th Anniversary year with an evening of performing arts in one of Rochester’s most historically significant buildings, featuring two of our city’s world-renowned artistic groups, and one of our up-and-coming stars.

This special, collaborative concert in the Performance Hall of the Hochstein School of Music & Dance will be the first time that PUSH Physical Theatre and The Ying Quartet have appeared on the same stage, and they will be sharing it with this year’s recipient of the Eastman School of Music’s William Warfield Scholarship, Jonathan Rhodes.

Proceeds go to The Landmark Society's Preservation Grant Fund, helping facilitate historic rehab projects that catalyze positive change in communities across a nine-county service area centered on Rochester, NY.

For tickets and more information, visit the Landmark Society website.