Mark S Jordan

A vivid premiere caps Loggins-Hull’s tenure as Composer Fellow for Cleveland Orchestra

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United StatesUnited States Mozart, Loggins-Hull, Prokofiev: Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst (conductor).  Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, Cleveland, 8.5.2025. (MSJ)

Franz Welser-Möst conducts the Cleveland Orchestra © Extraordinaire Photos/TCO

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The Jerusalem Quartet brings their Shostakovich cycle to a visionary close in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Shostakovich Cycle [2]: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlovsky, Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 30.4.2025. (MSJ)

The Jerusalem Quartet plays Shostakovich as part of the cycle in Cleveland © Ronald Werman/CCMS

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The Canton Symphony, Ohio’s hidden gem, shines in Vaughan Williams’s Sea Symphony

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United StatesUnited States Vaughan Williams, Boyle – ‘Voyage on the High Seas’: Dashon Burton (bass-baritone), Bonnie Frauenthal (soprano), Canton Symphony Chorus (director: Doug Beery), Mount Union Concert Choir (director; Beth Polen), Canton Symphony Orchestra / Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz (conductor). Umstattd Hall at Zimmermann Symphony Center, Canton, 26.4.2025. (MSJ)

Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz conducts Ina Boyle’s A Sea Poem © Kelly Klein Photography/CSO

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The Jerusalem Quartet plunges into the Shostakovich Cycle in Cleveland

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United StatesUnited States Shostakovich Cycle [I]: Jerusalem Quartet (Alexander Pavlosky, Sergei Bresler [violins], Ori Kam [(viola], Kyril Zlotnikov [cello]). Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 21.4.2025. (MSJ)

Jerusalem Quartet playing Shostakovich in Cleveland © Ron Werman/CCMS

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Apollo’s Fire and vocalists find grace and glory in Bach’s Mass in B minor

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United StatesUnited States J. S. Bach, Mass in B minor: Rebecca Myers (soprano), Aryssa Leigh Burrs, Gabriela Estephanie Solís (mezzo-sopranos), Emily Marvosh (contralto), Jacob Perry (tenor), Edward Vogel (baritone), Charles Wesley Evans (baritone), Apollo’s Fire / Jeannette Sorrell (conductor). St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Akron, Ohio, 4.4.2025. (MSJ)

Jeannette Sorrell conducts Rebecca Myers (soprano), Gabriela Estephanie Solís (mezzo-soprano) and Apollo’s Fire © Apollo’s Fire

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