Analisé Denise Kukelhan Archives

Cleveland Orchestra appoints three new players

December 3, 2014 by Daniel Hathaway

Bassoonist Gareth Thomas, violinist Analisé Denise Kukelhan and oboist Corbin Stair will join the ranks of The Cleveland Orchestra during the winter and spring of 2015. [Read more…]

Oberlin Opera’s Ada Lovelace is as free as a bird (Jan. 26)

by Stephanie Manning

Ada Lovelace’s “infinite energy” was more mental than physical. Lovelace, a 19th-century English mathematician, was chronically ill for most of her life — yet her agile mind worked magic on numbers, paving the way for important scientific discoveries.

That dichotomy is a cornerstone of The Infinite Energy of Ada Lovelace, composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Rob Handel’s opera about the brilliant woman often considered the first computer programmer. Oberlin Opera Theater presented a simple but effective staging on January 26, directed by Cara Consilvio. [Read on…]

Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and Musical Theater Project (Jan. 25)

by Kevin McLaughlin

Many things about George and Ira Gershwin’s 1930 show Girl Crazy set it apart — the cast of future superstars (Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman), the creativity of the Gershwin brothers, the artistry of orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett — all distinguishing it as a landmark musical. But in the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and The Musical Theater Project’s ninth annual collaboration on Saturday, January 25 at the Maltz, the songs were the stars.

Though the weather outside was frightful, your heart would have to have been frozen solid not to be affected by songs like “I Got Rhythm,” “Embraceable You,” “Bidin’ My Time,” “But Not For Me,” and “Boy! What Love Has Done to Me” — songs memorable, charming, and tender, that set Girl Crazy apart as one of Broadway’s most endearing scores.

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