The Cleveland Orchestra at Blossom Music Center (July 29)
by Samantha Spaccasi The lawn and pavilion of Blossom Music Center hosted an immense crowd on the evening of July 29 for The Cleveland Orchestra’s performance of Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 with...
View ArticleKent/Blossom Music Festival to celebrate its 50th Anniversary
by Daniel Hathaway With less than two weeks to go before students in the 50th Kent/Blossom Music Festival descend on the Kent State University campus for five weeks of rehearsals, master classes, and...
View ArticleKent Blossom faculty series: Mozart and winds (July 25)
by David Kulma Wind players take every opportunity to play Mozart, and when they are musicians at the highest level, it’s easy to come away smiling. That was the case on the Kent Blossom faculty...
View ArticleRocky River Chamber Music Society: serenades with James Feddeck (Nov. 19)
by Nicholas Stevens As any brass, woodwind, or low-string player in an orchestra may confess under mild pressure, it can feel profoundly liberating to play music that draws the spotlight away from...
View ArticleChagrin Arts: Barrick Stees fuses art and music (Apr. 26)
by David Kulma Cleveland Orchestra assistant principal bassoon Barrick Stees has had a longtime love of visual art that he finally turned into a musical event — “A Fusion of Art and Music with Barry...
View ArticleKent Blossom celebrates 51st season
by Rory O’Donoghue The Kent Blossom Music Festival returns this weekend, marking the 51st season of Kent State University’s collaboration with The Cleveland Orchestra. From June 30 to August 4, the...
View ArticleKent Blossom: a conversation with Barrick Stees and Frank Rosenwein
by Rory O’Donoghue “We don’t discuss much when we’re playing in orchestra,” Cleveland Orchestra principal oboe Frank Rosenwein said in an interview this week. “It’s funny, there’s opportunity to point...
View ArticleCIM hosts Music For Food at First Baptist February 18
by Daniel Hathaway One of the iterations of Music for Food, a musician-led initiative to fight hunger in local communities, is an annual concert to benefit the Greater Cleveland Food Bank. This year’s...
View ArticleRocky River Chamber Music Society: five winds & a pianist
by Jarrett Hoffman Lately, wind players have only been sighted here and there on the calendar, and have mostly performed all on their lonesome. That makes the finale to the Rocky River Chamber Music...
View ArticleRRCMS ends season with three quintets (May 17)
by Jarrett Hoffman The Rocky River Chamber Music Society’s live-streamed 62nd season came to a rousing conclusion on Monday, May 17, when five wind players and a pianist came together around quintets...
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