*This Conversation event occurs prior to the Friday Classics concert "Sparked by Frida: Guitarist JIJI and ENCORE Friends"
Conversation Panelists to be announced.
This Conversation event occurs prior to the Sunday Discovery concert Sparked by Teddy: Fourth of July with Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper.
This Fourth of July come listen to Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National Park CEO Deb Yandala speak about the 1960's "Parks to the People" movement and the history of land conservation in Ohio!
This Conversation event occurs prior to the Friday Night concert Sparked by Albert: Bach, Mozart, and Different Trains
Beethoven counted 60 coffee beans every morning. Ernest Hemingway rose at 5:30am no matter his schedule - and Albert Einstein played the violin. In this discussion, ENCORE panelists come together to explore the power of meditation and ritual for cultivating creative mindsets.
DUE TO TRAVEL DELAYS, THIS CONVERSATION HAS BEEN CANCELLED
This Conversation event occurs prior to the Sunday Discovery concert "Sparked by Rosa: CAVANI STRING QUARTET".
Dr. Tameka N. Ellington, Interim Assistant Dean for the College of the Arts at Kent State University (KSU) delivers a keynote presentation.
This event occurs prior to the Friday Night Classics concert ”Sparked by Billie: EVELYN WRIGHT JAZZ QUARTET”.*
Jazz Vocalist Evelyn Wright, Pianist Dr. Dave Thomas and ENCORE's Artistic Director Jinjoo Cho explore the intersection of artistic beauty and personal tragedy throughout the life of legendary jazz singer Billie Holiday.
This event occurs prior to the Sunday Discovery concert ”Sparked by Murakami with Violinist Jinjoo Cho”.
In this lecture, Haruki expert Dr. Lee Makela explores the author’s unique literary style of metaphors and symbolism through music.
“Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work. I learned the importance of rhythm from music — and mainly from jazz. Next comes melody — which, in literature, means the appropriate arrangement of the words to match the rhythm. If the way the words fit the rhythm is smooth and beautiful, you can’t ask for anything more. Next is harmony — the internal mental sounds that support the words. Then comes the part I like best: free improvisation. Through some special channel, the story comes welling out freely from inside. All I have to do is get into the flow.” – Murakami Haruki (The New York Times)
GUEST LECTURER:
Dr. Lee Makela
Associate Professor of East Asian History, emeritus
Cleveland State University
*This event occurs prior to the Friday Night Classics concert ”Sparked by Marie: THE ARIEL QUARTET”.*
Cleveland Clinic Radiologist Dr. Daniel Lockwood discusses fascinating radiological and medical discoveries by scientist Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the only person to win the Nobel Prize twice in two scientific fields.
