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Classical 101Donald Nally, artistic director of the Philadelphia-based choral ensemble The Crossing, has spent most of the last year reinventing how the choir works together and reaches its audience amid pandemic safety protocols.
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Classical 101It was a big idea – to commission an award-winning composer to write a splashy new percussion concerto that would be premiered right here in central…
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Classical 101“It was here, it was gone and it wouldn’t go away.”That’s how Columbus composer Sharon Udoh describes her experience of the year 2020.
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Classical 101It’s a fact both horrifying and sobering: an estimated 1.5 million children perished in the Holocaust.But those voices long silenced now ring on, thanks…
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Classical 101Children are at the heart of Christmas. And what better way to celebrate the holidays than with the wondrous voices of a world-class children’s choir?O…
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Classical 101“For me, making music felt inadequate.”That’s what noted pianist Simone Dinnerstein said about the days she spent in lockdown last spring, as the…
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Classical 101“At this performance, it was a kind of pandemonium afterwards. The audience wouldn’t stop cheering.”That’s how the noted pianist Gilbert Kalish recalls…
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Classical 101Columbus’ annual VIVO Music Festival kicks off this week and, like just about everything else this year, it looks a little different.In the midst of the…
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Classical 101The story of Desbrosses Street, in Lower Manhattan, is a story of a warehouse district turned into apartments, of people taking up residence in the once…
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Classical 101“My God, I can really feel the fabric of society tearing.”That thought haunted Eric Whitacre as he saw the effects of the coronavirus pandemic in its…