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For centuries composers as varied as Handel and Hancock, Elgar and Ellington have drawn inspiration from the majesty and power of the world’s great bodies of water. Stephan Crump has been surrounded by water for nearly his entire life, but the large-scale composition he will bring to the Cleveland Museum of Art on April 24, examines the aquatic from a very different point of view.
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When saxophonist Russ Gershon put his Either/Orchestra together 40 years ago, he had a concept in mind. “I wanted the band to feel like a territory band, or like a working band of the past,” Gershon said on a video call. The 11-piece band fully realized Gershon’s conception though he couldn’t have imagined that the band’s territory would one day include Ethiopia.
Today the Either/Orchestra is recognized globally for its advocacy of Ethiopian music, a project that has led to appearances at two of the nation’s most prestigious music festivals, and this weekend, to Cleveland for a pair of free concerts, Friday at Trinity Cathedral and Saturday at BOP STOP.
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The release last week of Red Rhinoceros, the debut recording by Bobby Selvaggio’s octet of the same name, completes a narrative right out of “Jurassic Park,” the Michael Crichton novel and blockbuster Steven Spielberg film about long extinct species recreated out of ancient DNA.
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