Donald Nally, newly appointed music director of Cincinnati's Vocal Arts Ensemble, is committed to introducing audiences to new music.  He will open the VAE's 30th anniversary season accordingly, with James MacMillan's powerful "Cantos Sagrados" November 6 at St. Peter in Chains Cathedral.  Each of the VAE's four concerts during the 2009-2010 season will feature new works, with, among others,  music by Kaija Saariaho, John Tavener, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Steven Stucky and David Lang.
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The Cincinnati Post and The Kentucky Post -- afternoon daily newspapers serving Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky for more than a century -- will cease publication on Dec. 31, 2007, the newspapers' owners announced today.  The last edition of the newspapers, owned by Cincinnati-based E.W. Scripps Co., will be published on that Monday, New Year's Eve. The decision by Scripps to cease publication comes three years after the company was notified by the Gannett Co., owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer, that the 30-year contractual agreement would not be renewed.
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Four finalists have been named for the J. Ralph Corbett
Distinguished Chair in Opera at University of Cincinnati
College-Conservatory of Music, vacant since former chair
Sandra Bernhard left last summer to take a
position with Houston Grand Opera.   - [Read more]

Cincinnati Opera and the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music have entered into a partnership agreement with all the right chemistry.  Called the Corbett Foundation Opera Fusion Program and funded by a “generous grant” from The Corbett Foundation, the three-year venture will bring the nation’s second oldest opera company and CCM into an even closer relationship than they have enjoyed over the years.   - [Read more]

A smile can be worth a thousand words and the one Paavo Järvi cast over his shoulder during a Cincinnati Symphony concert at Lakota Freshman School in West Chester Oct. 9 was one of them.   - [Read more]

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.   - [Read more]

Two-year-old Ainsley Cahill of Crescent Springs, Kentucky, was the first one to reach the stage to help unveil the 2007 Fine Arts Fund goal of $11,700,000 preceding a concert by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Sunday afternoon at Music Hall.
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