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DIARY: Friday, May 24, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Cleveland Orchestra plays The Magic Flute, No Exit concludes its Year of Surreality season with “Breaking the World,” Oberlin presents “The Grand Piano Extravaganza,” and M.U.S.i.C. puts on “Two Pianos and More”

•In the news: “an antiquated system in bad need of repair” — a look into the orchestral tenure process, including accusations that race played a role in the dismissal of former Kansas City Symphony principal percussion Josh Jones (pictured)

•Almanac: the strange story of Bridgetower, Beethoven, and the “Kreutzer” Sonata

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DIARY: Wednesday, May 22, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: free concerts from Piano Cleveland (Chu-Fang Huang in “Piano at the Pub”) and Singers Companye 

•Announcements: grant programs from Arts Midwest and South Arts, and the Canton Symphony outdoors with Summer Serenades

•Featured video: saxophonist Gary Bartz on NPR Tiny Desk series

•Almanac: Verdi’s Requiem and Wagner

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DIARY: Wednesday, May 15, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Amethyst Quartet concludes Trinity Brownbag season, CMA presents cinematic concert “A Season on the Wind: Music for Migratory Birds” (pictured), and Mandel Opera & Humanities Festival presents keynote event

•Announcements: Center for Arts-Inspired Learning names new CEO and announces free summer music camp, and Cleveland Orchestra announces return of Summers at Severance series

•Interesting reads: a new ending for Turandot premieres at Washington National Opera

•Almanac: Monteverdi with Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire

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Re:Sound festival — new & experimental music in concert, workshop & installation

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by Jarrett Hoffman

Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project will present the 2024 edition of its Re:Sound festival from Friday to Sunday, May 17-19.

Presenting both local and visiting artists who span all different strands of new and experimental music, the festival takes place at two locations. Convivium 33 Gallery will host a triple-bill concert each day at 7:30 pm, as well as a 2:30 pm workshop on Saturday led by festival headliner Elliott Sharp.

Meanwhile, three sound art installations will be presented on Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 5 pm at Cleveland Museum of Art’s Community Arts Center, located at the Pivot Center for Art, Dance and Expression. Tickets for the festival are available here.

A headlining act is something new for Re:Sound, as Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project (CUSP) managing director Stephan Haluska explained during a recent interview. “He’s the only artist we booked ahead of our call for applications.”

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DIARY: Wednesday, May 8, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Three free events today — from Trinity Cathedral, Les Délices (joined by Contemporary Youth Orchestra members and Cleveland State scholars), and the Oberlin Improvisation and Newmusic Collective

•Saxophone concerto by Tyshawn Sorey (pictured) awarded Pulitzer Prize

•Applications open for Cuyahoga Arts & Culture project support grants

•Almanac: the elder Oscar Hammerstein

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DIARY: Monday, May 6, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: clarinet-viola-piano trios in Rocky River

•Announcements: Arts Midwest’s GIG Fund, Karamu Summer Arts Intensive, and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture asks County Council to approve cigarette tax increase to fund arts

•Featured video: Jeff Scott’s Nǐ de mìngyùn, wǒ de mìngyùn (“Your Destiny, MyDestiny”) from Cleveland Chamber Choir

•Almanac: Alfred Humphreys Pease, George Perle, and Victoria Bond

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DIARY: Wednesday, May 1, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: cellist John Walz and friends at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland Orchestra musicians and Karamu Artists in a program curated by Allison Loggins-Hull (pictured), singer-songwriter Alex Cuba at Transformer Station, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble with trombonist/composer Alex Paxton

•Announcements: Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus to hold Tenor and Bass Camp, Kaboom Studio Orchestra taking auditions, Welser-Möst receives honorary membership with Vienna Phil

•Almanac: Leo Sowerby

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DIARY: Monday, April 29, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Cristian Măcelaru to be Music Director of Cincinnati Symphony (“He understands that orchestras in American communities have the power to serve much better than we have in the past”)

•Anthony Roth Costanzo to be General Director and President of Opera Philadelphia (the rare “artist in his prime who is also working as an administrator”)

•Anthony Freud discusses European and American models of fundraising as he departs as General Director of Lyric Opera of Chicago (“I do think there is little depth of understanding on both sides of the Atlantic about life in the arts on the other side of the Atlantic”)

•Announcements: voting for The Music Settlement in the Parent Choice Awards, Akron Symphony’s Concerts for Kids, and Assembly for the Arts’ Small Biz Block Party

•Almanac: a playlist perfect for people whose musical tastes are all over the map

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DIARY: Wednesday, April 24, 2024

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Hathaway-Brown choirs visit Trinity Cathedral, and Cleveland Orchestra musicians join with the Fatima Family Center Adult Gospel Choir and soprano Laquita Mitchell in a concert curated by Allison Loggins-Hull (left)

•Announcements: an event on marketing from Assembly for the Arts, and honors for students and recent grads at CIM, Dana, and Oberlin

•Almanac: the Hammond B-3 story and its jazz stars

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12:00 pm, a Brownbag Concert at Trinity Cathedral will feature the choirs of Hathaway-Brown School, directed by Laura Webster. A freewill offering will be taken up.

And at 7 pm at Cleveland’s Fatima Family Center, members of The Cleveland Orchestra will join with soprano Laquita Mitchell and the Fatima Family Center Adult Gospel Choir for a free concert curated by Allison Loggins-Hull, the Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow. Titled “Faith,” the program includes Damien Sneed’s Elegy, Jason Moran’s Cane, and Loggins-Hull’s Shine, as well as works for the Fatima Choir. It’s free.

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