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Former Beacon Journal writer, jazz muscian will be recognized for work
By Kerry Clawson
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Wednesday, Jun 24, 2009
Northeast Ohio will celebrate creative artists whose work has made the region a more exciting place to live at the 49th annual Cleveland Arts Prize event, 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hanna Theatre, 2067 E. 14th St., Playhouse Square.
Author Thrity Umrigar, former writer for the Akron Beacon journal; jazz musician Ernie Krivda; and Charles Fee of the Great Lakes Theater Festival are among this year's winners.
Umrigar, born in Bombay, has won a mid-career award for literature. She earned her doctorate in English from Kent State University and a master's in journalism at Ohio State. Her works include her latest novel, The Weight of Heaven, as well as If Today Be Sweet and The Space Between Us. Her memoir is First Darling of the Morning. Umrigar is an associate professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.
Other winners are:
• Amy Casey, emerging artist award, visual arts. She works as the project coordinator for the Reinberger Galleries at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
• Terry Schwartz, mid-career award, design. She's a senior planner at the Cleveland Urban Design Center, founded by Kent State University and located in downtown Cleveland.
• Bill Brouillard, lifetime achievement award, visual arts. He's a professor of art at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
• Mort Epstein, lifetime achievement award, design. The 92-year-old has been producing engaging designs and works of art for more than seven decades.
• Ernie Krivda, lifetime achievement, music. The Cleveland resident, a tenor saxophone player, is in his fifth decade as a jazz performer.
• Michael J. Horvitz, Robert P. Bergman Prize. The Jones Day attorney is an arts advocate and leader on the regional and national level. He is chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
• Charles Fee, the Martha Joseph Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts. Fee, producing artistic director for Great Lakes Theater Festival, led a nearly $20 million campaign to renovate the Hanna Theatre as an intimate, high-tech new home for GLTF.
• Nina Freelander Gibans, Martha Joseph Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts. She has spearheaded the search for a new home for the Cleveland Arts Foundation and founded the Cleveland Area Arts Council.
• Stephanie Morrison-Hrbeck, Martha Joseph Prize for Distinguished Service to the Arts. She is executive director of Near West Theatre for children and teens.
The winners will receive medals and talk about their work and inspiration. Dennis Barrie, former director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum and First Amendment defender, will host. The evening will include a short performance and reception. Cost is $50. Call 216-321-0012.
July 4 weekend fun
The Cleveland Orchestra's first concert of the 2009 Blossom Festival will include an All-American Cookout July 5 on the Blossom grounds. Patrons can get their fill of hot dogs, hamburgers, ribs and sides, prepared by Blossom chefs and available for purchase when the gates open at 4:30 p.m.
The patriotic experience will continue at 7 p.m. with a program of American music, with Cleveland Orchestra Director of Choruses Robert Porco conducting Copland's Old American Songs for chorus and orchestra as well as highlights from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. Cleveland Orchestra Assistant Conductor Tito Munoz will lead Gould's Spirituals for string orchestra.
The Blossom Festival Chorus will sing both Copland and Gershwin. Gershwin vocal soloists will be soprano Angela Brown, tenor Rodrick Dixon and baritone Lester Lynch.
Kent/Blossom Festival
In other classical music news, the 42nd annual Kent/Blossom Music Festival will include four chamber music concerts by award-winning professional performers at Kent State University. The festival will celebrate ''Mendelssohn Mania,'' Felix Mendelssohn's 200th birthday, by highlighting the best of his chamber music.
The free series also recognizes Kent State's centennial.
The Miami String Quartet will kick off the series at 7:30 p.m. July 1 at Ludwig Recital Hall at Kent State, featuring Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in C Minor and Dvorak's Piano Quintet in A Major.
Pianist and Ohio native Spencer Myer will perform with the quartet.
The Miami String Quartet will perform with bassist Scott Haigh at 7:30 p.m. July 8 to premiere Robert Carl's Quintet for String Quartet and Bass, as well as Haydn's String Quartet in C Major, ''Emperor,'' and Dvorak's String Quartet in F Major, ''American.''
The Emerson String Quartet will perform quartets by Haydn and Mendelssohn at 7:30 p.m. July 13.
Finally, the Cleveland Orchestra Piano Trio will offer Ravel's Piano Trio in A Minor at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5. Also on the program is violinist Soovin Kim and pianist Jerry Wong in Gabriel Faure's Violin Sonata No. 1 in A Major.
The concerts are free, but tickets are required for the Emerson String Quartet, due to limited seating. Call 330-672-2899 for more information.
New theater festival
Lorain County's Oberlin College will launch the new Oberlin Summer Theater Festival, a professional, nonprofit theater company that offers free, family-friendly shows. Founder and producing artistic director Paul Moser will offer the classics The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, opening Friday, and Shakespeare's The Tempest, opening July 3. The latter will be a 90-minute adaptation featuring an original score, puppets and clowning. The shows will run in rotating repertory through July 18 at Hall Auditorium. The acting company will include local Equity actors, Oberlin alumni and current students.
For more information, call the box office at 440-775-8169.
Arts writer Kerry Clawson may be reached at 330-996-3527 or kclawson@thebeaconjournal.com.
Northeast Ohio will celebrate creative artists whose work has made the region a more exciting place to live at the 49th annual Cleveland Arts Prize event, 6 p.m. Thursday at the Hanna Theatre, 2067 E. 14th St., Playhouse Square.
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Posted 11:07 AM, 06/24/2009
Ernie Krivda is one of the best sax blowers alive. If you've never seen him play, get out there!
