David and Carola Bamberger Archives

Bambergers to relocate

March 26, 2018 by Daniel Hathaway

David and Carolla Bamberger, who led Cleveland Opera from 1976 to 2004, have announced their plans to move to California at the end of the season. [Read more…]

Jazz vocalist Magos Herrera with her trio at CMA (Dec. 11)

by Peter Feher

Magos Herrera sang for a full five minutes before uttering a single lyric at the Cleveland Museum of Art on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

It was an apt introduction to the artistry of the Mexico City-born jazz vocalist, whose boundary-free style can sometimes beguile and sometimes confuse.

Performing the wordless “Choro de Lua,” a track off her 2023 album Aire, Herrera sounded transcendent in certain moments but less than stellar in others. That pattern would continue throughout the evening in Gartner Auditorium — her set just beginning to coalesce near the end. [Read on…]

Northwest Ohio Vocal Arts Ensemble at Cleveland Heights’ Church of the Savior (Dec. 15)

by Kevin McLaughlin

The fifteen singers of the Northwest Ohio Vocal Arts Ensemble (NOVA) gladdened the heart at Cleveland Heights’ Church of the Saviour on Saturday, December 15, in a program drawing from Medieval chant, early Renaissance, and 20th-century settings.

Artistic director Kevin S. Foster and his Toledo-based choir presented a comforting and relatable version of the Nativity story in a sequence of hymns, motets, and carols collectively called “Songs of Wonder: The Nativity Through the Ages.”

Even for the non-religious, the antiquity of the repertoire, the grandeur of the building, and the winsomeness of the singing all worked in combination to evoke a collective sentiment, a shared sense of seasonal memories, and a timeless message of peace and good will. [Read on…]

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