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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/no-exit-new-music-joins-music-and-art
 -in-new-works-inspired-by-cleveland-school-artists/
SUMMARY:No Exit New Music Joins Music and Art in New Works Inspired by Clev
 eland School Artists
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 Hughie Lee-Smith's "The Confrontation"[/caption]\nThu 3/12 @ 7PM\nFri 3/13
  @ 7PM\nSat 3/14 @ 7PM\nCleveland ensemble/music presenting organization N
 o Exit New Music has been focused on presenting avant-garde concert music 
 — both frequent world premieres and foundational and influential pieces 
 — for nearly two decades. A dozen core members including artistic direct
 or Timothy Beyer form the basis of the group\, which often adds guest musi
 cians or brings in similarly minded ensembles from out of town. They never
  stop looking for creative ways to expand their reach.\nIn 2023-24\, they 
 celebrated the “Year of Surreality\,” drawing on the surrealist moveme
 nt in the arts to fuel their programming. In a similar multi-disciplinary 
 effort\, they’re presenting a program this weekend called Cleveland Rena
 issance: Art of the Cleveland School\, inspired by the artists (mostly pai
 nters) of the so-called “Cleveland School” on the early-mid 20th centu
 ry.\n“I've always thought that Cleveland is a city that doesn't have a g
 reat sense of its own history\,” says Beyer. “I think about the Clevel
 and School artists and that time in our city when there was a really incre
 dible artistic zeitgeist—many of these artists were amongst the most sig
 nificant of their era. And so this concert series is meant to be a celebra
 tion of that… a celebration of these great luminaries of the Cleveland S
 chool. And I hope in some small way it will also bring a little more homet
 own awareness to these outstanding artists.”\nThe program is composed of
  six world-premiere pieces of music dedicated to Cleveland school artists\
 , all written in 2026. Chris Neiner’s Figures with Birds is based on a p
 ainting of that name by August Biehle.  Greg D’Alessio composed Clarenc
 e Carter inspired by the work of painter Clarence Holbrook Carter. Left Un
 said by Adonai Henderson was based on Hughie Lee-Smith’s 1970 painting 
 “The Confrontation.” Anti-Fascist Triptych by James Praznik draws from
  the 1945 work of the same name by Clarence Van Duzer. VANITY by Gleb Kana
 sevich draws on Clara Deike’s 1937 work “Shells.” The musical part o
 f the program is rounded out with Beyer’s own The Japanese Bridge\, base
 d on William Sommer’s 1913 painting of that name.\nBut there’s more: L
 ocal performance poets Ray McNiece and Raja Belle Freeman have written poe
 tic tributes to Cleveland school painters. McNiece’s “Plume” honors 
 William Sommer’s “The Brandywine in Winter” from the 1920s\, while F
 reeman contributes “Hi Stranger\,” based on “Bedtime” by Charles S
 allée. They’ll also do a reading of Northeast Ohio-born writer Hart Cra
 ne’s 1927 poem “Sunday Morning Apples\,” inspired by and dedicated t
 o about Sommer.\nThe ensemble will be joined by noted local experimental h
 arp player Stephan Haluska.\nThey’ll perform the concert three times: Th
 ursday March 12 at the Praxis Fiber Workshop Gallery in the Waterloo Arts 
 District\; on Friday March 13 at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner A
 uditorium\; and on Saturday March 14 at SPACEs.\nAs always\, No Exit conce
 rts are free and open to all. No tickets are required — just show up wit
 h an open mind. Get more information here.\nnoexitnewmusic.com\n[mappress 
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