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A Study in Contrasting Recitals
Last week our Schubert Club concert season got underway with two recitals: an International Artist Series performance…
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The International Artist Series returns
Though The Schubert Club presents some 50 performances each year, our flagship series is undoubtedly the International Artist Series at the Ordway. That series opens…
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Five Dollar Scholar Student Membership
Five Dollar Scholar The Schubert Club is excited to announce the second year of our popular Five Dollar Scholar Membership program. Join this group of…
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Nathan Gunn & Julie Jordan Gunn, Tuesday, Sept 30
Nathan Gunn, baritone & Julie Jordan Gunn, piano Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at 7:30 PM Ordway Center for the Performing…
Commentary
All Composers Were Young Once, Some Still Are
I have the pleasure of serving on the non-profit Board of the American Composers Forum (ACF) which met this past weekend. ACF is a membership…
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The new Ordway Concert Hall and why it excites me
At our Schubert Club Annual Luncheon back in June, we shared the news that some of our International Artist Series recitals will move from the…
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Audiences listen with their eyes as well as their ears
Last week I blogged about the live concert experience and the key factors that I think make some performances memorable and some not so memorable. …
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Blog: What makes a live concert memorable?
I was talking with a friend recently about the live concerts we’ve been to over the years and some of the reasons these performances stick…
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Theoroi – our Arts Ambassadors young professional program
Theoroi completed its third year of existence back in June 2014. My predecessor Kathleen van Bergen and former Schubert Club Board Members Suzanne Asher and…
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The Schubert Club, the early years and their impact today
Most people with knowledge of the Minnesota music scene know that The Schubert Club is a very old institution. It began back in…
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Project CHEER is more than piano and guitar lessons
Today’s blog is written by Joanna Kirby, who has been the Director of Project CHEER for over 25 years. Project Cheer began as an…
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Describing Music and Musicians – Let’s push the vocabulary boundary
I was reading over the past weekend about our first guest artist for the 2014-15 International Artist Series, Nathan Gunn. The commentator wrote of a…