"Music at Main" continues in 2010! The Fine Arts Department is pleased to present marimba player and Cleveland State University graduate Carol Dieball on January 23rd, 2010 at 2pm in the 3rd floor lobby of the Main Library building (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114). Ms. Dieball will perform solo marimba works by Mitchell Peters, J.S. Bach, Keiko Abe, Evelyn Glennie, Kevin Bobo, and Matthias Schmitt. This program is free and open to all ages. For more information call 216-623-2848. Please join us for this intimate and entertaining concert.

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The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Victor Liva today at Zion United Church of Christ in Tremont today--was transcendent.

The music felt like chocolate for the soul, after subsisting on bread and water for too long. 

Enjoy the holiday spirit at Zion UCC
2716 West 14th St. in Tremont.
 A Red Door Church.
Sunday, December 13, 2009 3:00 p.m.

Concert tickets $15.00/each or 2 for $25.00
Bountiful Buffet Lunch  available before the concert 1-2:30 p.m. $8.00 per person.

Call 216-687-1357 to reserve tickets.

Artwork credit: http://www.vistaprint.com

Max Eternity - Glenn Beck's attempt to pimp Blacks for his sweet malfeasance, message of hate, has backfired.   Beck, the current FOX News extremist-of-choice, had culled the Harlem Cospel Choir to sing for his upcoming Christmas TV Special--using that opportunity as a way to rebrand himself as mainstream--a friend to all, including the disenfranchised and black America.

The final 2009 "Music at Main" event will feature "Ensemble Lautenkonzert" on December 5th, 2009 at 2PM on the 3rd floor lobby of Main Library (325 Superior Ave, Cleveland, Ohio, 44114). Ensemble Lautenkonzert was formed in 1995 to explore late 17th and early 18th century chamber music. Please join us for this FREE event! 

The group features:

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One of my most valued resources for insight on health, the environment and aging is The Myth Of Alzheimer's, and I strongly recommend anyone reading this post subscribe to their e-mail updates and read that site regularly - it updates nearly daily.

The Myth Of Alzheimer's is absolutely about you, your family, your friends, and all our futures, as we all age together on this human-changing world until we die.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/live/president-obama-and-first-lady-attend-classical-music-reception

Passport Project's mission is to provide exciting educational experiences that build community through the arts, encourage respect for diversity and rejection of racism, and inspire a passion for learning and the global community. On November 21st, 2009 at 2PM in the Louis Stokes Wing auditorium of the Cleveland Public Library (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114), the Passport Project Global Dance & Music Collective will present music and dance from around the world, with a special interactive presentation of dance and percussion of Guinea as shared by Mohamed Tounkara, Passport Project's guest artist from this West African country. A slide show of photographs from Guinea will be shared as well, as we consider community in one of the poorest nations in the world and how we can build community in Northeast Ohio. For more information on this FREE performance call 216.623-2848. 

Passport Project is based in the Buckeye neighborhood of Cleveland. 12801 Buckeye Road, Cleveland, Ohio 44120, (216) 721-1055. http://www.passportproject.org/

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The Fine Arts Department is pleased to present the Oberlin Bassoon Quartet (OBQ) on October 31st, 2009 at 2pm in the 3rd floor lobby of the Main Library building (325 Superior Ave., Cleveland, Ohio, 44114). The OBQ will perform works by Boismortier, Dubios, J.S. Bach, Tony Bruno and Peter Schickele. This program is free and open to all ages. For more information call 216-623-2848.

The first Oberlin Conservatory of Music bassoon quartet was formed in 1994 and was called "Firewood". As interest in playing bassoon quartets grew at Oberlin more groups formed. In 2002 another quartet from Oberlin called "The Black Sheep" did a short tour of China and that solidified the trend of playing bassoon quartets at Oberlin. Since 2004 there has always been a group called The Oberlin Bassoon Quartet with rotating personnel. Since 2004 the OBQ has done extensive tours of China and Italy, and has played performances in other music schools around the country.

The members of the current OBQ are 4 sophomore bassoon majors at Oberlin from different parts of the US and abroad:

• Liz Bennett, Colorado
• Shelly Li, China
• Jake Purcell, Washington
• Brittney Walker, Illinois

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An anthem for Real NEO today, from the day - vintage Gang of Four performing Anthrax in 1980 - my first year in college - one of the great bands and songs of then and all time. I think the love many of us may feel for this corrosive, punk town is like a case of Anthrax, and that's something I don't want to catch. Read the lyrics below from our context in NEO... concluding "I don't think we're saying there's anything wrong with love, we just don't think that what goes on between two people should be shrouded with mystery." That's REALNEO! Listen, read, and surprise yourself with great music.

Gang of Four: Anthrax

A song for the day to our failed and disgraced leadership of Northeast Ohio, and those who want to be... "The Dope Show", by Canton native-son Marilyn Manson:

There's lots of pretty, pretty ones
Who want to get you high
But all the pretty, pretty ones
Will leave you low
And blow your mind

For the 30+ years of my life spent in Northeast Ohio, in childhood and as an adult, University Circle has been at the center of my universe. What Place is at the Center of Your Universe?

"O mio babbino caro" - Gianni Schicchi - Puccini - performed by Amy Irvine (August 9, 2009)

Many beautiful worlds collided the evening of Sunday, August 9, 2009, at "OPERA IN THE ITALIAN CULTURAL GARDEN", a free outdoor evening concert of favorite Italian opera classics, beautifully performed by Opera Per Tutti (Opera For All), held in the spectacular Italian Cultural Garden, in one of the greatest public parks in the world, The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, presented by the Italian Cultural Garden Foundation, Northern Ohio Opera League, and the Cleveland Cultural Garden Federation.

The Huffington Post - Les Paul, who invented the solid-body electric guitar later wielded by a legion of rock 'n' roll greats, died Thursday of complications from pneumonia. He was 94.

According to Gibson Guitar, Paul died at White Plains Hospital. His family and friends were by his side.

As an inventor, Paul also helped bring about the rise of rock 'n' roll with multitrack recording, which enables artists to record different instruments at different times, sing harmony with themselves, and then carefully balance the tracks in the finished recording.

Avast ye mateys! The Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department is pleased to present the next event in our "Music at Main" series on Saturday, September 19th, 2009 at 2PM in the lower level of the Louis Stokes Wing.

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The Cleveland Public Library Fine Arts Department is pleased to present the next event in our "Music at Main" series on Saturday, August 8th, 2009 at 2PM.

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I often leave Cleveland's great classical music radio station WCLV on while I work, and have been enjoying the Cleveland International Piano Compeition live, most of this week.

Right now (10 PM, July 31st) is a stunning performance by a 19 year old Chinese student - second round!... tune in if you read this around now... WCLV, Cleveland FM 104.9... Here is WCLV live on the Internet

"OPERA IN THE ITALIAN CULTURAL GARDEN"

                   FREE CONCERT

AUGUST 9, 2009 - SUNDAY - 6:00 PM

ITALIAN CULTURAL GARDEN - 990 East Blvd.

Upper level entrance

Well known songs from famous Italian opera

200 chairs - bring your own to asure a seat or bring

a blanket.

This free concert is brought to you by the Italian

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"OPERA IN THE ITALIAN CULTURAL GARDEN"

                    FREE CONCERT

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