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A couple of music educators whose names are synonymous with Eastman School of Music have created a scholarship for graduate students focusing on conducting, particularly for wind ensembles. The Donald and Polly Hunsberger Endowed Conducting Scholarship will most likely be ...

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Jazz Fest fans will be able to freely swap their club passes this year, and a few venues are swapping in and out, too. Co-Producers John Nugent and Marc Iacona released an announcement on Tuesday saying that club passes for ...

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Rochester Institute of Technology is bringing the creator the syndicated cartoon “Rubes” to campus for a week as part of its efforts to bring more creativity and innovation to its instruction. Leigh Rubin, creator of “Rubes,” will be the first ...

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Rochesterians have something to look forward to as they brace for another Rochester winter right around the corner. Officials have announced the dates for the 121st annual Rochester Lilac Festival. The region’s largest free festival will take place from May ...

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Albert Paley, the internationally renowned sculptor who creates giant metal sculptures in his Rochester studios, has announced he will be downsizing, with an eye toward estate planning. The artist, who is in his mid-70s, said in a video and written ...

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Rochester’s Strasenburgh Planetarium will have a new look next year, when renovations are completed on the 50-year-old Star Theater. Rochester Museum & Science Center will close the planetarium on Sept. 4 for extensive renovations that include a state-of-the-art full-dome projection ...

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Paul J. Burgett, a music scholar, vice president and dean at the University of Rochester, as well as a warm and welcoming presence at the university for more than 50 years, has died. A UR statement issued late Thursday afternoon ...

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As local colleges threw open their doors to new and returning students this week, Nazareth College was doing the same, while planning for something else special: the grand opening of the Jane and Laurence Glazer Music Performance Center Sept. 22. ...

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Rochester Contemporary Art Center next month will host a new exhibition of works by Dave Calver. The exhibition will open with a reception Sept. 6 and will feature an artist talk and book signing Sept. 8. Calver, a Rochesterian who ...

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Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the Rochester Advertising Federation have partnered for the fourth annual On the Side exhibition. The show will feature rarely seen personal works by some of Rochester’s most well-known graphic artists, photographers and designers. Unique to ...

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The Strong National Museum of Play is honoring the Apple Store’s 10th anniversary with the launch of game apps that mimic handheld dexterity games and puzzles of yesteryear. The Original Mobile Games is a free iOS mini-game collection of six ...

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Rochester artist Bradd Young, whose creations are branded SALUT, will join five other artists to create murals throughout Rochester for the annual WALL\THERAPY 2018 program. Now in its seventh year, WALL\THERAPY is an art and community intervention project that uses ...

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Audience participation band Massaoke will headline the seventh annual KeyBank Rochester Fringe Festival in September, festival organizers announced this week. Massaoke, a live band that started in London in 2011, plays the best-loved “hairbrush” anthems—songs you know by heart and ...

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The Corn Hill Arts Festival is letting the musical group Inside Out take visitors back to 1969 when they take center stage for the featured performance at this year’s golden anniversary celebration. Inside Out headlines the festival’s extensive free music ...

Besides a growing downtown restaurant scene, jazz fans will have a wide selection of street-side food vendors to choose from for their meals and snacks this year. One change is the food booths that have previously lined East Avenue on ...

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