by Stephanie Manning
A ’60s cafetorium might not sound like a great place to hear chamber music. But at the Wayne Center for the Arts, there’s more to the concert venue than meets the eye.
“ Crazily enough, it has unbelievably sharp, nice acoustics for chamber music,” Jarrod Hartzler said in a recent interview. “ It is not fancy. It is not super comfortable. But it is acoustically great.”
Hartzler is the vice president and managing director of ESQYRE, an Ohio-based music education non-profit partnered with the Wayne Center for the Arts in Wooster. The two organizations have created a concert series called “Wayne Center Presents,” featuring musicians both local and otherwise. The third season began earlier in January and will present monthly chamber music concerts through May 2025. Tickets are available online.
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On Tuesday, May, 5 beginning at 7:30 pm at E. J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall in Akron, the Tuesday Musical Association’s 2014-2015 concert season will come to a close with a performance by the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble. The program will include works by Brahms, Shostakovich and Mendelssohn.