Leonard Slatkin at Eastman School of Music conducting Eastman Philharmonia in Ives/Schuman (Variations on ‘America’) & Shostakovich (Symphony No.11/’The Year 1905′) – with Kelly Hall-Tompkins playing Jeff Beal’s Body in Motion. Live ESM webcast.

Jeff, Kelly and Leonard

Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Kodak Hall, Eastman School of Music, Rochester, NY 14604

Woe is me! I didn’t think to check time differences. Rochester is only four hours behind London, whereas regular haunt New York City is five. I was an hour late, tuning in just as the Shostakovich started.

Leonard Slatkin, Kelly Hall-Tompkins join the Eastman Philharmonia in Concert on March 19, 2025

Opening this Eastman extravaganza, Charles Ives’s wacky for-organ Variations on a tune that usually gets UK citizens to their feet for a rousing chorus of loyalty to the sovereign. William Schuman’s brilliant orchestration brings out all of Ives’s irreverence and mischievous humour… obviously I missed this starter, although Leonard Slatkin’s SLS recording is below. I listened to the Shostakovich, terrific performance, as it also was at the MSM a few months ago. Slatkin is currently in a Shostakovich phase – Symphony Five in Las Vegas last week and coming up again next week with the New York Philharmonic. Meanwhile, I still haven’t heard Jeff Beal’s Body in Motion … maybe Eastman runs to a repeat facility… if so, I’ll be back!

Manhattan School of Music – Leonard Slatkin conducts Schwantner’s New Morning for the World: “Daybreak of Freedom” & Shostakovich’s Eleventh Symphony (The Year 1905). Live MSM webcast.

“Conductor Laureate Leonard Slatkin and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra explore the intersection of classical and jazz music.” Concert one of three, recording broadcast on St. Louis Public Radio.

St Louis Symphony/Slatkin