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Chatting with Fred Child

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“When Beethoven goes to a bar”

Joshua Smith speaks with Performance Today‘s Fred Child about live classical music at the Happy Dog in Cleveland.

Performance Today is America’s most popular classical music radio program, with more than 1.3 million weekly listeners on more than 260 stations around the country. Performance Today features timely performances, interviews and recordings that can’t be heard anywhere else, performed by the great artists of our time and by the next generation of classical artists, from concert halls around the globe.

Buzz about the vinyl

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Grammy news from Voix-des-arts

Ensemble HDWe recently submitted “Live at the Happy Dog” for Grammy consideration – narrowing ballots are due at the end of October. Voters can check us out here: ensemblehd.bandcamp.com.

In the meantime, here’s a small collection of buzz about the vinyl.

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

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Joshua Smith, Founder of Ensemble HD, flew to Washington DC to speak at the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) Council meeting. He was invited talk to the Council about the international attention received for Ensemble HD’s chamber music performances at the Happy Dog.  Speaking with Mr. Smith was Joan Katz Napoli, Director of Education and Community Programs for the Cleveland Orchestra.  In a time of dwindling audiences for traditional classical music performances, how have The Cleveland Orchestra and its musicians moved to the forefront of outreach innovations?  The NEA wanted to know.

Photo by Joshua Smith

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"freshness and verve brought to the music by a superb assemblage of Cleveland Orchestra musicians”
- American Record Guide

"Ensemble HD’s playing glistens with virtuosity and invention”
- Voix de Arts