Arts Renaissance Tremont and Rocky River Senior Center form new collaboration

September 24, 2019 by Mike Telin

by Mike Telin

As Arts Renaissance Tremont (ART) begins its 29th season, the venerable organization will celebrate a new collaboration with the Rocky River Senior Center. On Friday, September 27 at 1:30 pm in the Center’s Auditorium, pianist Sara Daneshpour will perform works by Pierre Boulez, J.S. Bach, Chopin, and Ravel. Click here for program details. The free concert is part of ART’s ongoing Stepping Out Series. The concert is free (donations welcome) but tickets are required and can be reserved by calling 440.333.6660.

Stepping Out community concerts are geared toward seniors and those with limited mobility. The next ART/Rocky River Senior Center concert will feature violinist Shannon Lee and pianist Christine Hill on Saturday, November 2 at 1:30 pm.

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Mike Telin serves as Executive Editor at ClevelandClassical.com. Additionally, he team-teaches classes in Music Journalism at Oberlin College and Conservatory.

Cleveland Repertory Orchestra’s season opener contemplates circles of life (Nov. 2)

by Stephanie Manning

“This moment is full of wonders.” Composer Anna Clyne meditated on those words — written by Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh — as she wrote her orchestral work This Moment. That theme, of learning to cherish life more by reflecting on death, underscored most of the music chosen for the Cleveland Repertory Orchestra’s program on November 2.

The Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Christian Church hosted the season-opening concert, titled “Reflection and Revelations.” The venue’s dry acoustic helped the textures remain clear in Clyne’s piece, a somber and meditative seven minutes. [Read on…]

Pianist Garrick Ohlsson, conductor Daniel Reith lead Cleveland Orchestra in Beethoven concert (Nov. 9)

by Kevin McLaughlin

This article was originally published on Cleveland.com.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A relaxed understanding born of a long career helped pianist Garrick Ohlsson bring easy grace and Proto-Romantic sensibility to Beethoven’s Second and Fourth Piano Concertos with the Cleveland Orchestra.

The program on Saturday at Severance Music Center featured early and middle works, the second set of concerts in the Orchestra’s cycle of Beethoven piano concertos.

Despite its number, the Second Concerto is actually the composer’s first, begun in 1790. Ohlsson treated this early Beethoven work expressively, with sinuous rubato, keeping his rhythms precise, his touch light, and his rhetoric clear. Nothing, not even Beethoven’s many technical snares, seemed to faze him.

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