Meals and Music with Concert:Nova

  Meals and Music with Concert:Nova 02/14/12 at 10:33am Written by pcampbell Concert: nova, the innovative chamber music group that often explores new ways to present classical  music, has a Food + Music Festival in March,  a series  that presents music and food together. This isn’t just a series of meals with background music;  it’s [...]

Local Chamber Ensemble concert:nova Does Zappa

By Anne Arenstein · January 18th, 2012 · Onstage 0 Comments             Tags: “A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians,” Frank Vincent Zappa, modern master, composer, iconoclast, social critic, filmmaker and equal opportunity offender, once [...]

Interview with Stephen Jacobsen

1. Tell us a little bit about yourself- where are you from, where did you receive your training, and how did you get to Cincinnati? I’m from Lake Arrowhead, California. Which is a little tourist trap of a town in the San Bernadino Mountains. I trained at Lake Arrowhead School of Dance, and Anaheim Ballet [...]

Review by Mary Ellyn Hutton

L, Julie Spangler, R, Greg Tate. Quartet, L to R, top to bottom: Joanne Wojtowicz, Heidi Yenney, Theodore Nelson, Anna Reider   What a piece of work is concert:nova. Apologies to William Shakespeare (“Hamlet,” act 2, scene 2), this cutting edge chamber ensemble keeps expanding the boundaries of classical music in Cincinnati. Thursday night at [...]

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Today at the Taft Museum

It’s a warm and lovely Sunday at the end of February. A lazy Sunday isn’t complete without a great musical soundtrack.  This afternoon, come out and join Shakespeare, Schubert, Basho and c:n musicians at 2pm at the Taft Museum downtown. We perform a preview of the upcoming Words+Music program.  Ted will play from Ned Rorem’s [...]

Press release for “Words + Music”

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Adam C. Butalewicz Email: concert:nova@gmail.com Phone: 513-739-6682 Images available upon request concert:nova to Perform Words + Music Program features Shakespeare, Haikus, “Juliet Letters” and special guest Naomi Lewin CINCINNATI – February 14, 2011 –The ground-breaking chamber music ensemble concert:nova will present an eclectic program for romantics and realists alike on February [...]

Sumptuous Program of Words and Music

UP NEXT: Words + Music We are excited to feature “Juliet Letters” by Elvis Costello, a song sequence for string quartet and voice. Between classical and rock opera, this piece creates a new and unique soundscape for strings and voice based on letters sent to Juliet Capulet care of the Verona post office. Like concert:nova, [...]

Symphonic Resolutions: What’s Broken In Classical Music, And How Do We Fix It?

Repost: From NPR on January 17, 2011 January is half over. Have you made your New Year’s resolutions? If you’re like me, you ponder a few possible improvements to your life and then fail miserably at following through. So let’s forget for a moment about getting more exercise and organizing our finances. Instead, let’s talk [...]

WHO DO YOU GOODSHOP FOR? Doing your holiday gift shopping?  Help concert:nova over the holidays (and all year long) just by searching the web and shopping online. It’s so easy a caveman… 1. Go to goodshop.com 2. Enter “concertnova” under Who Do You Goodshop For? 3. Find store or search for products and a a.  [...]