By Thomas Consolo What’s that in the air? No, besides the humidity. Is it an early hint of autumn? No leaves turning yet, but the days are noticeably shorter, and the locusts are singing in the trees. There’s more than…
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy. That doesn’t mean our neighbors in the arts are taking it easy, though.
Even though time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future, that doesn’t mean there aren’t still plenty of events waiting to fill your dog days with arts and entertainment.
“At a certain point, when I was younger, I kind of lost interest,” Coleman said. He pauses for a moment, then rephrases. “Not ‘lost interest,’ but I was leading a double life as a … as a kid, as a skateboarder and as a miscreant, and they had to pull me back from that and say, ‘Enough of the skateboarding.’ ”
Their musical lives may have ended, but five old violins have found new artistic vibrancy in “MusikArt,” a collaboration between the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra and the Wash Park Art Gallery.
For two decades, Israeli violin maker Amnon Weinstein has dedicated himself to restoring violins played by musicians during the Holocaust. With the help of his son, Avshi, these once-silent violins can be played again.
A capacity crowd at the the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s “(Not So) Silent Night” event at the Carnegie Center of Columbia-Tusculum helped raise $30,000.
The Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra has a lot to celebrate: new music director Eckart Preu and a Summermusik festival season that saw a double-digit increase in ticket sales.
It’s not unusual for our city to nearly burst with great music, but some months the intensity seems to burn a bit more fiercely, and this November is a hot one. Here’s a savory sampling.
THEATER & DANCE Cincinnati Shakespeare Company – “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” How could any theater lover not have this on the fall must-see list? Not only is this one of William Shakespeare’s most beloved plays, it is CincyShakes’ first production…
