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Altin Sencalar Unleashes A New Release at BOP STOP

Altin Sencalar - Unleashed press photo 3 by Anna Yatskevich
photocredit: Anna Yatskevich

Altin Sencalar is a big guy. A Texan by birth, he wouldn’t look out of place on the offensive line of the Dallas Cowboys football team. He has two big dogs, Navy and JJ, and they slept on the bad behind him when we chatted on a video call (note to readers: it failed to save and a lot of great direct quotes were lost).

Sencalar plays the trombone, an instrument that is associated with swaggering bluster, but when he comes to BOP STOP Saturday, you might be surprised by the subtlety that he brings to the instrument.

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ROVA Saxophone Quartet: Keeping It Fresh For 45 Years

On Tuesday, Oct. 4, a quartet that has been one of the world’s most restlessly creative and genre-defying ensembles since its founding in San Francisco in the 1970s will return to Cleveland for the first time in nearly 35 years.

No, it’s not the Kronos Quartet, which played here in 2006 and 2013. Tuesday’s New Ghosts concert at Bop Stop will present the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, a musical aggregation that has been as influential, catalytic and inventive as its more celebrated Bay-area string-playing contemporaries.

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