From Inner Peace to Iguanas
Mary Ellyn Hutton
Posted: May 30, 2008 - 12:02:35 PM in
news_2008
Catch concert:nova, the dynamic new chamber ensemble
comprising members of the Cincinnati Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, stay
healthy and enjoy the photos of Tom McFarlane May 30 at
Inner
Peace
Holistic
Center,
708 Walnut St.
downtown.
Doors to the Center’s
new tea room open at 8 p.m. for a viewing of McFarlane’s award-winning digital
images (for a sample see http://www.thomas-mcfarlane.com).
photo by Tom McFarlane
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There will be Chinese tea and wine
tastings, mystical tea leaf readings,
door prizes, a raffle and select spa
services will be available throughout the evening (information at www.innerpeacecenter.net).
Concert:nova, (www.concertnova.com),
concert:nova violinist Tatiana Berman
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which has been
popping up in the most unexpected places since its inaugural concert at the
Coffee Emporium on
Central Parkway
last fall,will perform works by Vivaldi and Mozart, plus Argentine composers
Alberto Ginastera and Astor Piazzolla, at 9:30 p.m.
Admission is $5 at
the door and proceeds go to the Concert Nova Foundation.
“Rappaccini’s Daughter,” a spooky tale
by Nathaniel Hawthorne made into a play by Octavio Paz and now an opera by
Mexican composer Daniel Catan, opens at 8 p.m. May 30 in Cohen Family Studio
Theater at the
University
of
Cincinnati College-Conservatory
of Music.
The fully staged
production -- about a very lethal female who identifies with plants -- will be
sung in Spanish with English surtitles and piano accompaniment. Repeats are 8 p.m. May 31 and 2:30 p.m. June
1. The event marks the close of CCM’s
2007-08 Studio Series and the first collaboration by CCM and Cincinnati Opera
in their new, three-year Corbett Foundation Opera Fusion Program (see details
in Features).
Admission is free,
but reservations are required since seating is limited. Call the CCM box office at (513) 556-4183.
Looking ahead to
its July production of Catan’s “Florencia en el Amazonas” Cincinnati Opera will
present a special, wiggly Opera Rap, “Opera in the Amazon” at 7 p.m. June 4 in
the
Harold
C.
Schott
Education
Center at the
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden.
illustration by Rene Milot for Cincinnati Opera's "Florencia en el Amazonas" by Daniel Catan
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Opera marketing
director Christopher Milligan will discuss the world of locales inhabited by
opera.
green iguana
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Zoo executive director Thayne
Maynard will introduce some of the animal life native to the Amazon rain forest
where “Florencia” takes place.
The event is free
with Zoo admission, but reservations for Zoo tickets must be made by calling
(513) 241-2742.
The Cincinnati Chamber orchestra enlists the Madcap Puppet Theater -- or is it the other way around? – for a family concert at 2 p.m. June 1 at the new Anderson Center, 7850 Five Mile Rd. in Anderson Township.
Having double-booked the hall, Mysterion, the phantom of the concert hall, demands that the CCO and Madcap Puppets perform together.
Illustration for Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra's "Mysterian, Phantom of the Concert Hall" with Madcap Puppet Theater
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They do, under the baton of CCO assistant conductor Kelly Kuo, who leads the combined forces in delightful interpretations of Rimsky-Korsakov’s “Flight of the Bumblebee, Mozart’s Overture from “Don Giovanni” and a special puppet performance of Hansel and Gretel set to the Nocturne from Mendelssohn’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”
Soloist will be cellist Coleman Itzkoff, a 10th grader from Walnut Hills High School, who will perform Haydn’s Cello Concerto In D Major. Itzkoff, principal cellist of the CSO Youth Orchestra, was the winner of the CSYO’s Concerto Competition and a featured guest on National Public Radio’s “From the Top” in the spring of 2007.
Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for children18 and under. Call the CCO at (513) 723-1182, the Aronoff Center box office at (513) 621-2787, or order online at www.ccocincinnati.com or www.cincinnatiarts.org/tickets.
In the news: Eric Kim, principal cellist of the CSO since 1989 has accepted a faculty appointment at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music effective in September, 2009. He leaves the CSO at the end of next season.
Eric Kim
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Kim, who made his solo debut with the Chicago Symphony at age 15, has forged a distinguished career as a solo and chamber artist concurrent with his CSO post. With undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York's Juilliard School, he was a student of Leonard Rose, Lynn Harrell and Channing Robbins and was the first recipient of the school's William Schuman Prize for outstanding leadership and achievement in music.
Kim joins his former colleague, Alexander Kerr, concertmaster of the CSO from 1992-94, on the faculty of the prestigious school.