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Rocky River Chamber Music Society to present Green Mountain Chamber Players

October 4, 2017 by Hannah Schoepe

by Hannah Schoepe

The Rocky River Chamber Music Society opens its 59th season with a free concert by the Green Mountain Chamber Players on Monday, October 9 at 7:30 pm at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church. The program of piano trios will include Beethoven’s Fourteen Variations in E-flat, Op. 44, the Cleveland premiere of Evan Chambers’ A Hundred Ways, and Brahms’ Trio No. 1.

Made up of violinist Kevin Lawrence, cellist Brooks Whitehouse, and pianist Clara Young, the Green Mountain Chamber Players include members of the faculty from the Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, held each summer in Burlington, Vermont, where they work with today’s top string students from the United States and across the globe. [Read more…]

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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