City Beat (5) Sep 20, 2009
Symposium exploring the life and work of composer and Cleveland Institute of Music s first director Ernest Bloch is at 2 in CIM s Mixon Hall. Panel moderated by CIM president Joel Smirnoff includes Rabbi Roger C. Klein of The Temple-Tifereth Israel, Mary Davis of CWRU s music department, CIM alumna and pianist Halinda Dinova and grandson Ernest Bloch II. Followed by concert at 4 featuring The Cleveland Orchestra Trio performing Bloch s works. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Leon Kirchner; Harvard teacher wrote bold, daring music, won Pulitzer; at 90 Sep 18, 2009
Mr. Kirchner also studied with Ernest Bloch and Roger Sessions, but it was Schoenberg who became his most influential teacher and, in later decades, an ethical lodestar whose integrity he deeply admired. Even as a young composer, the force of Mr. Kirchner s music was unmistakable. (Boston Globe)
Ernest Bloch's music continues to resonate May 25, 2009
A worldwide music festival commemorating the 50th anniversary of Swiss composer Ernest Bloch's death is taking place throughout 2009. From Los Angeles to Lugano, London to Lisbon, musical organisations large and small will be honouring Ernest Bloch as one of the truly significant voices in 20th-century western music ... Alex Knapp of the International Ernest Bloch Society said the London concert was an opportunity to hear works by Bloch rarely heard today, yet which when first performed more... (SwissInfo.org, Switzerland)
Windows into the past Apr 16, 2009
Recorded music -- by composers as varied as Vivaldi, Ernest Bloch, and Philip Glass -- is accompanied by live poetry readings by Paula Barrett of Gannon University's theater department. Dafmark dancers Leslie Loop, Micheline Minnaugh, Megan Stuczynski, Shelly Walker, and Ursula Wheeler will be joined by guest artist and choreographer Scott Heinrich -- marking 10 years of appearances in Erie -- in the interpretation of Dafna Baier's choreography. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Guide to the 24th Jewish Music Festival Mar 22, 2009
Over the next week, music fans can see the Andy Statman Trio mix klezmer and bluegrass, California's oldest youth orchestra play the music of Ernest Bloch, Flory Jagoda sing the songs that have become Jewish folk standards, beatboxer Yuri Lane sit in with Daniel Kahn's political cabaret act and the Sisters of Sheynville revive the old-style Jewish vocal groups of the 1930s ... Young People's Symphony Orchestra: Special guest cellist Bonnie Hampton sits in with California's oldest youth orchestra... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Composer's home could be coast's center for music Feb 7, 2009
If it weren't for the chunk of rock with its square brass plaque at the Performing Arts Center, you'd never know that this town was once the home of internationally acclaimed classical music composer Ernest Bloch ... Members of the Ernest Bloch Legacy Foundation will make their pitch Thursday to the Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission. (OregonLive, OR -- News)
