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by Daniel Hathaway Musical duels are most often fought with compositional one-upmanship tools than with loaded pistols. And so it was when the keen amateur flutist King Frederick “the Great” of Prussia challenged Johann Sebastian Bach to a feat of improvisational prowess during a visit to Potsdam in 1747. Having impressively extemporized a 3-voice Ricercar […]
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by Kevin McLaughlin The Escher String Quartet — violinists Adam Barnett-Hart and Bryan Lee, violist Pierre Lapointe, and cellist Brook Speltz — presented three very different works in its Cleveland Chamber Music Society debut on October 13 at the Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church. Their approach might be summed up as “combine and conquer” […]
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by Kevin McLaughlin The Atlantic Brass Quintet brought four decades of experience and a wide-ranging program to Cleveland State University’s Drinko Recital Hall on Monday, October 12. The playing was spirited and technically impressive, though the results were sometimes uneven. Founded in Boston in 1985, the award-winning ensemble has toured internationally with a repertory s...
by Kevin McLaughlin For much of the nineteenth century, Italian music was synonymous with opera, thanks to composers like Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini. But around 1900, a younger generation looked beyond that artform, drawing inspiration from Italy’s instrumental traditions and the emerging sounds from France and Russia. On October 10 at Murray Hill Galleries, Studio […]
<...by Kevin McLaughlin For a concert marking America’s 250th anniversary, the Ciompi String Quartet and baritone Robert Sims took a broad view of what American music can mean. On the Rocky River Chamber Music Society series at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church on October 5, the Duke University-based quartet moved among concert music, hymns, spirituals, […]
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