Utech Hymnody Symposium

The Craighead-Saunders organ, Christ Church, Rochester, New York

Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, announces its second biennial Utech Hymnody Symposium, November 1.

Presenters include Carl P. Daw, Jr., Robert A. Leaver, and Crista Miller. An Evensong led by Stephen Kennedy, Nathan Laube, William Porter, and David Higgs will feature the first singing of a newly commissioned hymn text by Daw.

For information: www.esm.rochester.edu/organ/utech.

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