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DIARY: Tuesday, October 24, 2023

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By Daniel Hathaway

HAPPENING TODAY:

12:00 pm – Tuesday Noon Organ Plus Concert: Students from the Oberlin Conservatory Department of Historic Performance Practice. Program to be announced. Church of the Covenant, 11205 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.

7:30 pm – Tuesday Musical Association: Cuarteto Latinoamericano. “Mexico: A Musical Journey.” Cuarteto Latinoamericano and scholar Benjamin Juarez explore connections in Mexican visual art, history, and culture through the music of six iconic composers, alongside a narrated multimedia presentation of paintings. E.J. Thomas Hall, University of Akron, 198 Hill St. Tickets available online.

For details, visit our Concert Listings.

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Blood, mold, and fine music with the Berrow Duo and Sound Energy at Re:Sound (June 7)

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by Rory O’Donoghue

“We look forward to smashing the heteropatriarchy with you,” cellist Benjamin Swartz said before performing a program of Sofia Gubaidulina, Tamar Diesendruck, and Kaija Saariaho with Boston-based string trio Sound Energy. The group closed the second concert of this year’s Re:Sound New and Experimental Music Festival on Friday June 7 at The Magalen, which featured a sensational first half by the Berrow Duo and made a strong case for the many daring voices of 21st century composers.

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ChamberFest Cleveland: meeting up with accordionist-composer Merima Ključo

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by Mike Telin

KljucoThe second in a series of articles highlighting ChamberFest artists

In October of 2015, the extraordinary accordionist and composer Merima Ključo mesmerized audiences at the Cleveland Museum of Art during the performance of her composition The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book.

On Thursday, June 16 at 8:00 pm in Mixon Hall, Ključo returns to Northeast Ohio for the first of four performances presented as part of the 2016 edition of ChamberFest Cleveland. The concert, titled “Schumann Fantasies,” will include works by Robert Schumann and György Kurtág, as well as three movements from Stephen Coxe’s A Book of Dreams for accordion, piano, and percussion. A pre-concert talk by festival speaker Patrick Castillo will begin at 7:15.

“Everywhere I go, people are surprised by what the accordion is capable of doing. [Read more…]

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