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Local News and Announcements
02/10/2010 A Joyful Noise (Grace Community Lutheran Community Concerts) will present the QUBE Quartet with Suzanne Newcomb, piano, on Sunday March 21, aaT 7:30 pm at 100 E Shrock Rd, Westerville
01/23/2010 Earl Wild dead at 94
11/22/2009 Columbus Woman's Chorus celebrates its 20th anniversary at 4pm at Trinity Episcopal Church (125 E Broad at S 3rd - Map)
11/2/2009 Interview with CSO president and CEO Roland Valliere
10/25/2009 Keeeping Score Second Season: Ives Holiday Symphony (This is not in Airfare or the local schedule listings, so check WOSU for details before the broadcast date)
10/4/2009 CSO Going hi-tech with iPhone app.  A contrary view: Fix what's broken!
7/17/2009 CSO hires new CEO
6/24/2009 Bryan Knicely leaves GCAC   Announcment from Brian Knicely
5/28/2009 GCAC announces operating and project grants to local arts groups
4/30/2009   CMConnection quartet Arcobaleno took the bronze medal at  St Paul last Sunday. Congratulations!
3/27/2009 Two CMConnection ensembles, Acclerando and Arcobaleno String Quartets, are competing in the St Paul (4/26/2009) and Fischoff  (5/8-5/10/2009) competitions this year! Congratulations!
3/27/2009 This explains everything!
3/26/2009 Orchestras feel the recession
3/9/2009 WDEM-TV in Grandview Heights is airing local arts programming on their weekly Lifeline program. The station broadcasts on digital channel 17.1 and should be available over the air to most within I-270 except some western areas, including parts of Hilliard.  Ask your cable provider to add this to their lineup!  Many thanks to the OSU professor who pointed this out.  Dispatch The Other Paper
2/13/2009 Tony Beadle leaving symphony
2/1/2009 Naxos CD 8.559398, LESHNOFF, J.: Violin Concerto / Distant Reflections / String Quartet No. 1 (Wetherbee, Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Thakar, Carpe Diem String Quartet)will be available Feb 24, 2009
1/28/2009 BalletMet cuts performances
1/5/2009 Search for new Music Director for Symphony, Questions about future
1/5/2009 Columbus Dance Theater and Carpe Diem String Quartet (Review) in NYC 
12/11/2008 WOSU Blog:  Boyce Landaster: A New CD from the Columbus Symphony Orchestra
12/5/2008 Barbara Zuck and Chrisopher Purdy comment on Hirokami-CSO recording
11/23/2008 Bill McNutt: More work must follow
11/21/2008 Chrisopher Purdy and Barbara  Zuck on Hirokami's departure
11/19/2008 Ron Spigleman The sad truth
11/18/2008 Greg Grant, member of choir: Compounding stupidity Official statement from the CSO board (pdf)
11/18/2008 Drew McManus: Hirokami's firing violates the board's own strategic plan; could be the subject of an opera.
11/16/2008 CSO CD with Junichi Hirokami released in Japan 11/19/2008. Order from Amazon.jp
11/15/2008 Revised Dispatch story with more details..
11/14/2008 Comments: David Thomas Bill Edins Bruce Hemd Robert  Levine Julia Rose 
Hirokami fired. 11/13/2008 Drew McManus NYT   Dispatch  WOSU
Symphony announces new board head 10/08/2008
Listen to the Viaggio String Quartet on From The Top 9/28/2008
OSU Assistant Professor of Violin Kia-Hui Tan took 3rd place in the New Tang Dynasty Television First Chinese International Violin Competition held July 24-27 2008 in New York City. "It was a great experience to interact with violinists of Chinese descent from around the world. I only heard about the competition two weeks prior, sent in my application (with CD) and received confirmation of acceptance one week prior. It was all very impromptu to have such a short time to practice the competition repertoire (Mozart/ Bach/ Paganini/ Wieniawski) but I wanted to prove to myself that I really could pull it off should the opportunity comes (e.g. to step in as concerto soloist at the last minute when somebody cancels), it's something I have prepared for all my life."  Video with interview on youtube
Ben Bechtal, early music expert, dead at 72  (8/2/2008)

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Early Music


Early Music in Columbus 2009-2010 Season
October 16, 2009 Anonymous 4
Secret Voices: The Sisters of Las Huelgas
November 6, 2009 Apollo's Fire Mediterranean Nights: Sultry Songs and Passionate Dances from Italy and Spain
January 8-10, 2010 at Pontifical College Josephinum The Early Interval An English 12th Night Celebration
February 19, 2010 Flanders Recorder Quartet Banchetto Musicale
March 12, 2010 at Pontifical College Josephinum Trefoil In the Chamber of the Harpers
April 16, 2010 The Early Interval with Cary Dachtyl, percussion Strike the Tabor! A Program of Medieval and Renaissance Music


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Chamber Music


Chamber Music Columbus 2009-2010 Season
October 17, 2009 Ying String Quartet (InstantEncore)
  • Samuel Barber:Quartet, op. 11
  • Schumann Quartet in A Major Op 41 No 3
  • Sebastian Currier:Next Atlantis (2008-9)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in C-sharp minor, op. 131
November 7, 2009 Jupiter String Quartet (InstantEncore)
  • Joseph Haydn: Quartet in F minor, op. 20 no. 5
  • Leoš Janáček: Quartet no. 1 ("Kreutzer Sonata")
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet in E-Flat Major Op 127
January 30, 2010 Europa Galante with Fabio Biondi (InstantEncore)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: Overture in F major, TWV 55:F14
  • Georg Philipp Telemann: Concerto in A major for flute, violin, violoncello, and string orchestra, TWV 53:A2
  • Giovanni Battista Sammartini: Symphony in G minor, J. 57
  • Pietro Nardini: Concerto for violin and string orchestra in A major, op. 1, no. 1
  • Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso in B-flat major, op. 6, no. 11
  • Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto Grosso in D major, op. 1, no. 5
February 13, 2010 David Finckel & Wu Han with Philip Setzer, violin: Piano Trio (InstantEncore)
  • Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in B-flat major, D. 898
  • Franz Schubert: Piano Trio in E-flat major, D. 929
March 6, 2010 John O'Connor, piano (InstantEncore)
  • John Field: Three Nocturnes
  • Carl Czerny: Variations on a Theme of Rode, "La Ricordanza"
  • Ludwig van Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, op. 126
  • Franz Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D. 958
April 17, 2010 eighth blackbird (InstantEncore)
  • Stephen Hartke: Meanwhile (2007)
  • Missy Mazzoli: Still Life with Avalanche (2008)
  • Thomas Adès: Catch (1990)
Friday, May 14, 2010 at 7:30PM at Sanborn Hall, Delaware Cavani String Quartet (InstantEncore)
  • TBA
Chamber Music Columbus 2010-2011 Season
October 2, 2010 Chanticleer: In Time of: Songs of Love & Loss, War & Peace   (Instant Encore)
  • Palestrina
  • Dufay
  • Janequin
  • Ligeti
  • Chen Yi
  • Samtez
  • McGlynn
  • Bates
  • Gershwin
  • and others
October 23, 2010 Arnaldo Cohen, piano  (Instant Encore)
  • Bach-Busoni: Chaconne in D minor
  • Alberto Nepomuceno: "Air" from Suite Antiga
  • Radames Gnattali: Valsa No 7
  • Luiz Levy: Valsa Lenta No 4
  • Franscisco Braga: Currupio (Valse Capriccio)
  • Ernesto Nazareth: Odeon & Apanhei-te, cavaquinho
  • Frederic Chopin: The Four Scherzi
November 27, 2010 Carpe Diem String Quartet with Jerry Kirkbride, clarinet   (Instant Encore)
  • Mozart: Quintet in A Major for Clarinet and Strings K581
  • Korine Fujiwara: Fiddle Suite Montana
  • Brahms Quintet in B Minor for Clarinet and Strings Op 115
January 22, 2011 Burning River Brass
  • Bach
  • Debussy
  • Bernstein
  • Praetorius
  • Rossini
  • Mozart
March 12, 2011 Bretano String Quartet    (Instant Encore)
  • Renaissance: Short works by Orlando Gibbons etc.
  • Mozart: Quartet in D Minor K421
  • Stephen Hartke: Night Songs for a Desert Flower
  • Alban Berg: Quartet Op 3
April 30, 2011 Fry Street Quartet
  • Beethoven: Quartet in D Major Op 18 No 3
  • Bartok: Quartet No 1 Op 7
  • Schubert: Quartet in D Minor D820 "Death and the Maiden"
Friday, May 13, 2011 at 7:30PM at Sanborn Hall, Delaware Cavani String Quartet (InstantEncore)
  • TBA




Jefferson Academy 2009-2010 Season
November 8, 2009 Brahms Piano Quartet (Offshoot of St Petersburgh String Quartet)
  • Mozart Piano Quartet in E-flat Major
  • Shelepov Jewish Rhapsody for Piano Quartet (2009)
  • Brahms Piano Quartet in G Minor Op 25
January 24, 2010 Poulenc Trio
  • Glinka
  • Poulanc
  • Previn
February 28, 2010 Euclid String Quartet
  • Haydn
  • Tan Dun
  • Beethoven
April 11, 2010 Paul O'Dette, lute
  • TBA
May 2, 2010 Biava Quartet
  • Beethoven
  • Gilders
  • Britten



Sunday at Central 2009-2010 Season
September 20, 2009 Quartets Cubed: The Qube String Quartet (David Edge, Erin Gillilnd, violins; Steve Wedell, viola; Cora Kuyvenhoven, cello)
  • TBA
October 18, 2009 Splendor in the Brass: The CSO Quintet (Thomas Battenberg and Tim Leasure, trumpets; Gene Standley, horn; Andrew Millat, trombone; James Akins, tuba)
  • TBA
November 15, 2009 Canceled: Classy Strings: The High Street Four (David Niwa, Ariane Sletner, violins; Ken Matsuda, viola; Luis Biava, cello)  Piano Quartet
  • TBA
February 14, 2010 Valentines for Brahms: Canaletto Ensemble (David Niwa, violin; Ken Matsuda, viola; Luis Biava, cello; Mariko Kaneda, pano)
  • TBA
March 14, 2010 Cello Favorites: Luis Biava, cello; Mariko Kaneda, piano
  • TBA
April 18, 2010 Cameron Bennett, piano; Nancy Gamso, clarinet; Mark Rudolff, cello
  • Bruch
  • Brahms
  • Shostakovitch
May 16, 2010 Violin Vignettes: The Niwa Duo (Gail Niwa, piano; David Niwa, violin)
  • TBA


Marble Cliff Chamber Players Summer 2010
Sunday May 30, 2010 at Marble Cliff Andrew Bloser, tenor; Cameron Bennett, piano; Charles Wetherbee, violin; Korine Fujiwara, viola; Pei-An Chao, cello
  • Vaughan Williams On Wenlock Edge
  • Strauss Piano Quartet in C Minor Op 13
Saturday June 5, 2010 Delaware and Sunday June 6, 2010 Marble Cliff Cameron Bennett, piano; Charles Wetherbee, Korine Fujiwara, violins; Victoria Chiang, viola; Mark Rudoff, cello
  • Beethoven String Quartet Op 18
  • Franck Piano Quintet om F Minor
  • Webern Langsamer Satz
Saturday June 12, 2010 Delaware and Sunday June 13, 2010 Marble Cliff Cameron Bennett, piano; Charles Wetherbee, Leonid Polonsky, violins; Korine Fujiwara, viola; Clancy Newman, cello; Jean-Etienne Lederer, double bass
  • Dvorak String Quartet in F Major Op 96 "American"
  • Schubert Piano Quintet in A Major D 667 "Trout"



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