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James Levine planning comeback; interview this week
Maestro James Levine is gearing up to return to the podium after a two-year absence due to a spinal cord injury. The Cincinnati native returns on May 19th to lead the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall in works by Wagner, Beethoven, and Schubert....
Posted: 5/8/2013 5:03 PM in Arts in Focus
Daniel Libeskind design picked for Columbus Holocaust Memorial
Daniel Libeskind of Studio Daniel Libeskind in New York City was chosen over two other finalists and 80 initial competitors for his design of a new Holocaust Memorial on the grounds of the Ohio Statehouse in downtown Columbus. Libeskind is locally known,...
Posted: 5/8/2013 4:51 PM in Arts in Focus
Video: May Festival Opening Weekend
Here’s a video preview of the May Festival, opening Friday in Music Hall. If you missed my print stories previewing the season, click here to read “May Festival Chorus reaches crunch time” and here for what to expect and other tips.
Posted: 5/8/2013 3:40 PM in Arts in Focus
Neutral Milk Hotel coming to Cincinnati
It’s true. The band that most of us gave up on ever being able to see is back and touring. Neutral Milk Hotel, who need no introduction for independent music lovers, announced last week that they would be re-uniting and playing a handful of dates. I’ll...
Posted: 5/7/2013 2:37 PM in Each Note Secure
Art Museum’s Betsky is finalist for Chicago job
Cincinnati Art Museum director Aaron Betsky is a finalist for dean of the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Betsky visited the campus last week for interviews with the search committee. Two other candidates...
Posted: 5/7/2013 1:39 PM in Arts in Focus
Cincinnati arts ambassadors to take stage
The following seven Cincinnati Arts Ambassador Fellows were awarded $6,000 each in city funds toward the creation of a new and existing artwork. In two free public events on May 8 (tomorrow) at Memorial Hall, Over-the-Rhine, and May 15 at the Clifton...
Posted: 5/7/2013 11:02 AM in Arts in Focus
Brant Russell joins CCM Drama faculty beginning 2013-14
Brant Russell joins CCM Drama’s full-time faculty this fall and will make his directing debut with the department’s collaboration with The Carnegie on the farce “Boeing-Boeing.” Russell is a graduate of Kenyon College (BA, political science major) and...
Posted: 5/7/2013 10:50 AM in Arts in Focus
Marburg Collective pays tribute to Radiohead
Here is something that should make most of us feel really old. Hail To The Thief from Radiohead was released 10 years ago! The bright side of this realization is that the album is being celebrated, and the celebration is happening right here in Cincinnati....
Posted: 5/7/2013 10:36 AM in Each Note Secure
Louis Langrée’s “purposeful” conducting
The New York Times reviewed the Metropolitan Opera’s “Dialogues des Carmélites” (Dialogues of the Carmelites) which many of us heard in a live broadcast on Saturday. The conductor of Poulenc’s opera, Louis Langrée, music director-designate of the Cincinnati...
Posted: 5/7/2013 10:19 AM in Arts in Focus
Evening news
Sometimes we have to look to the small things to get any good news in the world….. Here’s a couple pages from the sketchbook…. Where are you getting your world news these days? Hoping it’s balanced….
Posted: 5/6/2013 10:30 PM in Micromovements:
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