by Daniel Hathaway
After a year’s hiatus, Timothy Weiss and his Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble returned to Gartner Auditorium on Saturday afternoon, November 5, for the first of four performances this season. Literary texts and visual imagery gave the audience engaging handles on works by Oberlin faculty composers Elizabeth Ogonek and Stephen Hartke and Scottish composer James MacMillan. [Read more…]
by Carlyn Kessler
On Sunday night, July 26, participants in Credo’s Brandenburg Project performed all six of J.S. Bach’s Brandenburg concerti at Severance Hall’s Reinberger Chamber Hall, following an intensive weeklong festival and July 24 performance at Symphony Center in Chicago, IL. The program seemed right at home in Reinberger. The ornate hall, with its candlesticks and gold plating resembling an 18th century salon, perfectly transported audience members back to Bach’s time, if only for an evening.