John Leman: Inspiration to All
Posted: Sep 23, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
John Leman, retired professor of choral conducting at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and director of the May Festival Chorus from 1978-88, died Friday morning at Jewish Hospital in Kenwood. He was 67.
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Cincinnati Part of Paavo's World
Posted: Sep 18, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
"How natural and nice to come back," Paavo Järvi told a
post-Cincinnati Symphony concert crowd in the Music Hall foyer Saturday
night. "How much like home it is." Järvi, 44, who opened his seventh season as CSO music director with a festive program of Wagner and Beethoven, has literally been around the world since leaving Cincinnati in early May.
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post-Cincinnati Symphony concert crowd in the Music Hall foyer Saturday
night. "How much like home it is." Järvi, 44, who opened his seventh season as CSO music director with a festive program of Wagner and Beethoven, has literally been around the world since leaving Cincinnati in early May.
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No "Cookie-Cutter" Pianist
Posted: Sep 13, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Visit pianist Awadagin Pratt’s web site and you’ll not only learn all about him, you can have some fun, too. It’s all part of the distinctive image of the 41-year-old in dreadlocks
and beard, who took the music world by storm by winning the prestigious
Naumburg Piano Competition in New York in 1992, the first
African-American to do so.
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Remembering Pavarotti
Posted: Sep 6, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
The death of tenor Luciano Pavarotti, 71, on Aug. 6 deprives us of
arguably the greatest lyric tenor since at least World War One. He sparked a dual devotion---not just among the
operaficionados, but also in a far broader public drawn to his
teddy-bear charisma, comparable to figures like Babe Ruth.
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"A" is for "Aida"
Posted: Jul 19, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Grand finale of Cincinnati Opera's 2007 summer festival will be Verdi's "Aida."
Performances are July 25, 27, 29 (a Sunday matinee) and 31. Each of the other operas heard this summer has had two performances each. So how does "Aida" rate four? The alphabet has something to do with it. - [Read more]
Performances are July 25, 27, 29 (a Sunday matinee) and 31. Each of the other operas heard this summer has had two performances each. So how does "Aida" rate four? The alphabet has something to do with it. - [Read more]
"Cosi" in Hollywood
Posted: Jun 28, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
You can't bring popcorn or Twizzlers, but you can go to the movies with
Cincinnati Opera at 8 p.m. tonight and Saturday at Music Hall. "Cosi fan tutte," literally "Thus do they all," Mozart's 1790 comedy
about love and infidelity, has been updated to 1930s Hollywood.
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Mephistopheles Debuts in Cincinnati
Posted: Jun 14, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Watch out for bass Denis Sedov. As an opera singer, his job is to "fool people," he said, especially
in Gounod's "Faust," which opens Cincinnati Opera's 2007 summer
festival at 8 p.m. tonight at Music Hall.
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The Devil, Mrs. Nixon, Hollywood and Hieroglyphs
Posted: Jun 12, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
When it comes to
classical music, opera is the "greatest show on earth.” Cincinnati Opera's
2007 summer festival, opening with Gounod's "Faust” at 8 p.m. Thursday at Music
Hall, will be a four-ring event.
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"Heidik" No More: Neeme Järvi in Estonia
Posted: Jun 3, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Banner announcing Neeme Järvi's 70th birthday concert at "Estonia" concert hall in Tallinn, June, 2007
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TALLINN, Estonia - Non-person? Outcast? Hardly. When conductor Neeme Järvi celebrated his 70th birthday concert with the Estonian National Orchestra here last Saturday in the "Estonia" Concert Hall, he was introduced by Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves himself. - [Read more]
"Mayor's 801 Plum" Concerts, Serving Hot Salsa, Cool Classical
Posted: Jun 1, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Trombonist/conductor Jaime Morales
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A Conversation with Paavo Järvi about the CSO's Future
Posted: May 4, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra music director Paavo Järvi
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On April 22, music director Paavo Järvi and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra returned from a week-long tour of Southern California. “I felt that the orchestra played in many ways the best I’ve heard them play,” said Järvi, whose uncommon rapport with the orchestra was noted at every stop. On Wednesday the CSO announced that Järvi has extended his contract through August, 2011, after which it will become “evergreen." The Estonian born conductor, 44, shared some of his thoughts and concerns about the CSO last week at Music Hall.
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Meet the Composer
Posted: May 3, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Charles Coleman is a brisk walker, a lively talker and a still-living composer. That’s as opposed to a “dead composer,” he adds, because it’s the
specter of “those famous dead guys” that he has sought to banish on his
visits to Cincinnati. The native New Yorker, composer-in-residence with the CSO this year, has spent five weeks in the city since January.
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Cincinnati, Järvi Find Friends in California
Posted: Apr 26, 2007 - 10:00:00 AM in: news_2007
“Cincinnati truly has it all,” read a headline in the April 23 Orange County Register. The Reds? Bengals? Skyline Chili? The reference this time was to Cincinnati’s 112-year-old
symphony orchestra, just back from a week-long tour of Southern
California under its music director Paavo Järvi.
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CSO in California: White Knuckles to Standing Ovations
Posted: Apr 24, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Three time zones, four temperate zones. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and music director Paavo Järvi
arrived in Palm Desert, California Sunday afternoon for a week-long
tour of the Golden State. The early contingent disembarked their cross-continent flight in San
Diego and boarded a bus for the
120-mile drive to Palm Desert, first stop on the five-city tour. “If you go the route we went, through the San Bernardino Mountains,
you go up four temperate zones,” said driver John Martin. “We went all the way from desert to Alpine, 4,000 to 4,500
feet. When we got to the top, there were trees and it started to snow.”
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East of Northern: NKU Opens Up
Posted: Apr 12, 2007 - 12:00:00 AM in: news_2007
Northern Kentucky University is looking east. All the way to Eastern Europe. NKU colleagues David Cole, Diana Belland and Kurt Sander made the trip
in January to Pleven, Bulgaria, where they participated in a joint
concert with the Pleven Philharmonic Orchestra. Cole, director of orchestral studies at NKU, conducted. Belland, a
member of the NKU piano faculty, was guest artist in Beethoven’s Piano
Concerto No. 3. The concert opened with the world premiere of
theory/composition professor Sander’s “Pantocrater.”
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