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Classical 101We just can't resist when puns are involved.This time last year, we saw some classical-music-themed valentines and decided to try our hand at creating…
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Classical 101It all started with Cindy Gaillard.The denizens of Opera Columbus asked Cindy, an award-winning WOSU TV producer, about ideas for an opera with a local…
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Join guest host Christopher Purdy for a discussion about arts in Columbus. GuestsKorine Fujiwara, composer of “The Flood” Peggy Kriha Dye, Artistic…
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Join All Sides Weekend guest host Christopher Purdy as we discuss the arts scene in Columbus.Guests: Mark Lomax II, drummer, composer, educatorAdam…
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Classical 101Harry Lawrence Freeman was arguably the most important African-American composer of opera working during the era of the Harlem Renaissance.The Cleveland…
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The resourceful singer is unafraid to bring opera — and his high-flying top notes — to unlikely places, from sixth-grade classrooms to the offices of NPR.
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Classical 101It's a torrid late-summer day as I type these lines. I equate the cooler weather and the longer evenings with opening nights!Columbus looks forward to…
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Classical 101A number of years ago, two dedicated opera lovers — Julie Castrop and Heather Spence — built a new company called Opera Columbus around Alessandro…
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It may be hard to imagine a composer being inspired by public hearings and court cases. But Lake Erie and its problems take center stage in a new oratorio from Cleveland composer Margaret Brouwer. Picture a stage full of people – choirs of children and adults, rows of musicians, 4 soloists, and a conductor all performing a piece of music. Here, the real star of Voice of the Lake is Lake Erie.
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Classical 101I know, I know. Another seemingly sensationalistic claim tossed out into cyberspace like so much line at the fishing hole. Sure, winning the lottery can…
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Classical 101Charles Wakefield Cadman's opera Ramala will be discussed and sung in a lecture-performance by musicologist Katie Graber and the artists from Ohio State…
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Classical 101Opera Columbus presents Benjamin Britten's operatic horror story The Turn of the Screw in the Southern Theatre, Wednesday, Sept. 27, Friday, Sept. 29 and…