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Cornelius & Karre violin and percussion duo feature in 3 concerts this weekend

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by Mike Telin

If you have never heard a recital by a violin and percussion duo, you have three opportunities this weekend.

On Saturday, October 10 at 2:00 pm in Oberlin’s Allen Memorial Art Museum, violinist Emily Cornelius and percussionist Ross Karre will perform Arvo Pärt’s iconic Fratres along with works by Aaron Helgeson, Salina Fisher Jesse Jones, Cara Haxo, and Leilehua Lanzilotti. The free concert is part of the College and Conservatory’s Homecoming weekend.

Then on Sunday, October 11 at 3:30 pm at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, the Duo will repeat Pärt’s Fratres with the Heights Chamber Orchestra — for which Cornelius serves as concertmaster.  Under the direction of Travis Jürgens, the program will also include Amy Marcy Cheney Beach’s Summer Dreams, Margaret Brouwer’s Century’s Song, and Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 99 in E-flat. The concert is free.

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She Scores: a dazzling display from composers & performers (June 2)

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by Kevin McLaughlin

You might have gone to the Sunday, June 2 She Scores concert to hear exemplary works by female and nonbinary composers, or simply to enjoy some fresh new sounds. But once there, you would have stayed for the dazzling expertise on display, from both composers and performers alike.

Credit the Local 4 Music Fund and executive director Amber Rogers for organizing the fourth annual iteration of this splendid concert series, which ran from May 30-June 2 in CIM’s lovely Mixon Hall. Genre or gender aside, this was an afternoon of superb music.

Margi Griebling-Haigh’s Triskaidekaphilia (“love of the number thirteen”) for three violins made for an arresting and mathematical start. Violinists Ken Johnston, Leah Goor-Burtnett, and Emily Cornelius drew out the composer’s introspective and playful sides in this well-crafted three-movement work. [Read more…]

Oberlin Percussion Group to play Grisey’s Le Noir de l’Étoile at OCLIPSE

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by Mike Telin

“In 1967, a young astronomer detected in the heavens a rapidly varying radio signal, in the form of periodic impulses 1.3 seconds apart,” writes Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicist at the Paris-Meudon Observatory.

“The discovery caused a sensation. The impulses were so regular that for a while they were taken to be signals coming from extraterrestrial civilisations. Then astrophysicists revealed a truth that was just as surprising: the signals were being emitted by a pulsar, the fantastic compact residue created by the supernova explosions that long ago disintegrated the massive stars.”

This discovery served as the inspiration for Gérard Grisey’s Le Noir de l’Étoile. Commissioned by the French State and Les Percussions de Strasbourg, the piece was premiered in 1991 at the Ars Musica Festival in Brussels.

On Monday, April 8 at 1:00 pm, Oberlin Percussion Group, under the direction of Ross Karre (pictured), will perform Grisey’s monumental work in Hales Gymnasium. The free performance is part of Oberlin’s OCLIPSE Concert Series celebrating the solar eclipse set to take place on Monday. Click here to learn more about Le Noir de l’Étoile.

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