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Cultured Cleveland: October 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Tuesday, October 29, 2013. October 24, 25, 26. Back at the podium for too much of a good thing. Ometimes, less is more. A small ensemble or a carefully chosen piece can stand in for something much larger. But the opposite is also true: Sometimes, more is less. By the final notes on Saturday night, that was the inescapable conclusion of “Fate and Freedom.”. Shostakovich Nos. 6. 8220;Eroica”) that didn’t take on heroic proportions ...St captur...
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Cultured Cleveland: March 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Friday, March 29, 2013. Drawing a professional sound from a student ensemble. Along with talented, CIM’s student orchestra is fearless, taking on substantial programs like Wednesday’s challenging combination of Mussorgsky, Grieg and Prokofiev. Under the baton of CIM Orchestral Program Director Carl Topilow, the sound was superb and the execution was razor-sharp, particularly in Prokofiev’s daunting Symphony No. 5. Great on the Grieg. After s...
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Cultured Cleveland: September 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Sunday, September 29, 2013. A skilled purveyor of the Russian sound. The opening piece was a treat – Anatoly Liadov’s seldom-performed Eight Russian Folk Songs. One of Sinaisky’s trademarks is his combination of warmth and precision, which came to the fore in songs like the “Dance of the Gnat” and “Tale of the Bird.” Light and playful, they were also sparkling displays of sharp, carefully crafted timing and ...Gerstein was born in Russia but...
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Cultured Cleveland: February 2014
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Wednesday, February 26, 2014. Cleveland Institute of Music. Making memories at Mixon Hall. Onk’s performance at CIM offered an overview of her vocal compositions reaching back to her 1971 release. Even calling her pieces “songs” is a bit of misnomer. Monk uses her voice not to imitate the sounds of instruments, but. Reflected both the frailty of life and loss of her longtime partner, Mieka van Hoek. “The Tale” from the opera. Rocky River Pre...
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Cultured Cleveland: July 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Tuesday, July 23, 2013. An impressive Blossom debut for Laquita Mitchell. Merica, she is beautiful. And shamelessly so in the Sunday night program at Blossom, which lacked only fireworks to cap a celebration of native music ranging from traditional spirituals to a contemporary film score, spiced with tasty samplings of Porgy and Bess. Even with a Spanish concerto in the mix, it was an evening of lʼamour. A composer with flair. Hat a pleasure...
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Cultured Cleveland: February 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Tuesday, February 26, 2013. Cleveland Museum of Art. Smart, challenging music from a fearless q uintet. Xperimental music is always a tough sell, as evinced by the small crowd that turned out for the Cleveland debut of Victoire. Beatles nostalgia? Three days of capacity crowds. Israeli fusion? A sellout. Cutting-edge classical from New York hipsters? Plenty of empty seats, and not even enough applause to merit an encore. The audience seemed ...
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Cultured Cleveland: December 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Monday, December 9, 2013. IVAN ŽENATÝ and SANDRA SHAPIRO. Cleveland Institute of Music. World-class music from two star player/pedagogues. The caliber of the music they play together is world-class, though in some ways their recital was equally interesting as a demonstration of how. Heir opening selection was a gift: Dvořák’s Romantic Pieces for Violin and Piano. Schumann’s Sonata in D minor for Violin and Piano. From the Homeland). It i...
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Cultured Cleveland: May 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Tuesday, May 21, 2013. An unlikely setting for scintillating chamber music. Ell and Woolfrey are both expressive players who offered rich, full leads in duos with Warner, and were commanding in Beethoven’s Piano Trio in B flat major, Op. 11. The program opened with a lighthearted piano piece for four hands, Marshall Griffith’s Children’ s Song. Moved in random fits and starts, and suffered from rock music leaking in from a nearby studio....
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Cultured Cleveland: November 2013
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A discerning guide to the city's finest arts and entertainment. Friday, November 22, 2013. An opportunity to watch a virtuoso at work. Uperstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma titled his latest Silk Road Ensemble release A Playlist Without Borders. And they don’t need a single note of warm-up. From the opening bars of Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne. Their sound was perfectly clean and well-defined, seamless in construction and elegant in execution. Each of the five movements had a distinctly different character, with...
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