Jazz Moves Columbus is a new WOSU documentary that chronicles the creation of the performance series of the same name earlier this year. The theatrical collaboration staged by BalletMet, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra (CJO), and WOSU Public Media was performed 13 times in February at the Riffe Center to celebrate Columbus’s bicentennial. The behind-the-scenes look [...]
I had a chance to witness the first joint rehearsal of the Columbus Jazz Arts Group and BalletMet yesterday. They rehearsed at BalletMet and will be at the Capitol Theatre at the Riffe Center today as they prepare for the premiere of JAZZ MOVES COLUMBUS in partnership with WOSU. Our team provided video excerpts for [...]
Check out this great feature on “Jazz Moves Columbus” in today’s Philanthropy Friday from Columbus Foundation/Columbus Underground. Be sure to also check out the rehearsal/interview video and help spread the word of this groundbreaking event which opens February 2nd at the Capitol Theatre at the Riffe Center!
We had an ambitious goal last Friday — to raise $101,000 in a one day pledge drive to support the programming for the new 101.1 FM – Classical 101 station. It was a day of celebration that Columbus has an all-classical radio station, shared with our FM stations in Mansfield, Marion, Coshocton and Portsmouth. We [...]
With the help of votes from Central Ohio delegates, leaders of the Boy Scouts of America have voted to allow openly gay boys for the first time. Simon Kenton Council spokeswoman, Jen Koma, says local leaders were given guidance prior to the vote.
Ohio’s Republican U.S. senator is demanding to know if any disciplinary action has been taken against IRS employees at the agency’s Cincinnati office for targeting conservative groups.
Nearly 700 balloons in honor of the missing children in Ohio were released today at Columbus Preparatory Academy. Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine attended the balloon launch and says with the discovery recently in Cleveland of 3 missing women; no one can give up hope to find their loved ones.
