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Performance Today was created by National Public Radio (NPR), and went on the air in 1987. The program was founded by NPR vice president for cultural programming Dean Boal, who gave Performance Today its name, and who, along with NPR colleagues Doug Bennet, Jane Couch, Ellen Boal, and retired Baldwin Piano Company president Lucien Wulsin, secured the series' initial funding.
The Crane Chorus was founded in 1931 by Helen M. Hosmer. It is composed almost entirely of music majors at the Crane School of Music, and usually numbers between 185 and 200 singers. Principal conductors have included Helen M. Hosmer, Brock McElheran, Calvin Gage, Stanley Romanstein, Rick Bunting, Daniel Gordon, and Jeffrey Francom.
Fleming was born on February 14, 1959, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, the daughter of two music teachers, and grew up in Churchville, New York. [12] She has great-grandparents who were born in Prague and later emigrated to the U.S. [13] [14] Fleming attended Churchville-Chili High School.
Julia Ettie Crane (May 19, 1855 – June 11, 1923 [1]), also known as Julia Etta Crane, was an American music educator and the founder of the Crane School of Music. This was the first school specifically created for the training of public school music teachers. [2] She is among the most important figures in the history of American music ...
Nov. 23—POTSDAM — The building, initially home to the Crane School of Music, will fall to the wrecking ball in the spring of 2025. At its first meeting, the recently formed Campus Building ...
The work of SUNY Potsdam professors Paul Siskind (music) and Alan Steinberg , the opera was performed at the Sara M. Snell Theater of the Crane School of Music by the Crane School's Opera Ensemble. In 2009 Blythe debuted at the San Francisco Opera portraying the role of Azucena in Il Trovatore. [6]
He attended Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam for two years before transferring to Arizona State University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in music performance in 1986. He received his master's degree in conducting from George Mason University in 1991.
George was born in Pittsburg, California, and he grew up in Franklinton, Louisiana, near New Orleans.With voice scholarships, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, Louisiana, while studying with Ralph Roberts and a master's degree from Louisiana State University, where he studied with Paul Knowles.