Selected Portfolio: classical music & dance stories

Here’s a sampling of my classical music and dance journalism across print, video, public radio and podcasting:

PRINT: Written Features | Trend Stories | Columns

• Behind the curtain as musicians from all over the country and beyond compete for the job of a lifetime with the Minnesota Orchestra:

PART 1: 56 Cellists, 1 Seat / PART 2: Playing for Keeps

• With the help of professionals, a class of fifth-graders conceive, write and perform an opera:

PART 1: Writing and Rehearsing / PART 2: Family and Opening Night

Oue’s Final Bow: Departing music director taught orchestra to play from the heart

TREND: Will anyone step forward to fill the shoes of Cincinnati’s major cultural donors?

COLUMN: Music Hall has intimacy issues and young adults aren’t coming


VIDEO

The Apprentice: Dancing for Careers with the Cincinnati Ballet

Time Stands Still: The Making of ‘Shift’

Collaboration: James Sewell Ballet + Mary Ellen Childs + Cantus

The ‘Merge’ of Black Label Movement & Contempo Physical Dance

Kenwood Symphony Orchestra solo+aria showcase

Stephen Paulus Celebrates the Marimba


AUDIO: Public Radio Stories | Podcast Episodes

Asheville’s Gavin Geoffrey Dillard Shepherds Operetta Based on a Chapter of His Storied Life

Asheville Symphony Ignores Clouds Overhead, And Ahead, For Celebratory Comeback Concert

Stewart and Owen adapt, dance and roll with the pandemic

More than four decades in, Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre still experimental

PODCAST: Beyond the Baton | Darko Butorac of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra

PODCAST: Dance Dance Evolution | Vanessa Owen and Gavin Stewart