drewmcmanus Ali-Landing plays with the kind of empathy, insight, and determination that is enviable for any performer, regardless of age — not to mention her laser-focused connection with the Sinfonietta and Clark, who led from the podium with balletic poise. I look forward to future performances of “breathe/burn” that may be a tad freer, a tad more luxuriant … Read more
It’s the stuff of anxiety dreams – having to play a clarinet in an orchestra while wearing a mask, or to play the flute with an unwieldy apparatus attached to it designed to keep your breath aerosols in check. But this is no dream. Those are just a couple of the pandemic safety protocols the … Read more
Antoine T. Clark, artistic and music director, founded the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra in 2013 to support local artists while providing diverse and dynamic programming that entertains, inspires, and fosters music education. The MACCO performs concerts throughout the year, the next of which is a virtual concert, Folk Impressions, on Sunday, Feb. 7, 2021 at … Read more
In announcing the young conductor, Maestra Chen said, “In recent seasons, a promising young conductor who has participated in Project Inclusion Fellowship is selected to serve as Assistant Conductor to a Sinfonietta season to master the multiple skills required by such a specific role. Such extension of the Fellowship program has proven to be incredibly … Read more
Last spring, the coronavirus pandemic forced the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra’s 2019-20 season to a premature close. This Saturday the orchestra launches its 2020-21 concert season with two outdoor performances, as the McConnell Arts Center increases its offerings of art classes and opens a new gallery exhibition.
For the foreseeable future, the internet may be the only safe place where musicians and audiences can come together. That’s why the musicians of Worthington’s McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra (MACCO) have gone virtual, turning their own homes into recording studios and using smartphones and other high-tech tools to give a performance of music by … Read more
The world premieres of musical works by two Columbus composers were scratched when the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra (MACCO) in Worthington canceled what was to be its final concert of the season. The cancellation of the orchestra’s May 3 concert, “Do More Than Listen, Hear Our Voices: Voices of Freedom,” came as a result … Read more
Conductor Antoine Clark did the bravest and the best thing an artist can do. He started his own orchestra. He gives employment to musicians, joy to audiences and he gets to play his own instrument.
Columbus conductor and clarinetist Antoine Clark wants women musicians and musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to be heard. Clark is bringing his vision to the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra’s (MACCO) 2019-20 Masterworks series, Amplified: Do More than Listen, Hear Our Voices. The focus of the series’ three concerts – Voices Past and Present, Voices of … Read more
Adjunct Instructor of Music Antoine Clark’s first recital on the Hill in eight years will include a diverse repertoire of 19th and 20th century composers such as Leó Weiner, Bohuslav Martinů, Louis Spohr and Ralph Vaughan Williams.