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News & Reviews
2024
ClevelandClassical.com REVIEW - May 1, 2024 - Cleveland Chamber Collective: Ty Alan Emerson’s Oath Breaker (Apr. 28)
ClevelandClassical.com PREVIEW - April 18, 2024 - Cleveland Chamber Collective to premiere OATH BREAKER, a Requiem
ClevelandClassical.com REVIEW - January 31, 2024 - Cleveland Composer's Guild at Fairmont Presbyterian (January 21)
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The concert began with Ty Alan Emerson’s Pan Songs played by percussionist Dylan Moffitt on a version of the modern steelpan which avoided precise tuning, resulting in a distinctive harmonic and spatial system. The emphasis on sound, color, and rhythm beautifully showcased Emerson’s concepts.
2021
ClevelandClassical.com REVIEW - September 1, 2021 - Cleveland Chamber Collective & Inlet Dance Theatre: Caliban Ascendant (Aug. 29)
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Ty Alan Emerson — who composed the score [...] — didn’t skimp on the musical demands. The work calls for a battery of percussion and a group of chamber musicians willing to play outside of the box, from passages for prepared piano to extended technique after extended technique.
ClevelandClassical.com PREVIEW - August 25, 2021 - Cleveland Chamber Collective and Inlet Dance Theater at Cain Park
WCLV Classical 104.9/Ideastream - May 21, 2021 - Cleveland Composers Shine at the Bop Stop
2020
Ah! Humanity.
ClevelandClassical.com - March 17, 2020 - Cleveland Chamber Collective at Disciple's Church (Mar. 1)
2019
ClevelandClassical.com – January 2, 2019 – No Exit with Patchwork at SPACES (Dec.14)
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“Ty Emerson’s Darkling, I Listen, inspired by Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, resembled a single painted brushstroke on an otherwise blank canvas. Variable in thickness, color, and height, drawn against silence and always threatening to run out, the line of sound appeared most fragile when Nicholas Underhill’s piano and David Luidens’s glockenspiel splattered above.”
2018
ClevelandClassical.com – December 3, 2018 – No Exit continues Cleveland Composer Series this week
ClevelandClassical.com – November 27, 2018 – No Exit: Cleveland Composer Series
Broadway World – September 10, 2018 – The Musical Theater Project Hosts Two Evenings of SILVER LININGS: THE SONGS OF JEROME KERN
Cleveland Scene – April 4, 2018 – The NEOSonicFest, Highlighting New and Recently Composed Music, Plus the Rest of This Week’s Classical Music Picks in Cleveland
Cleveland Jewish News – March 29, 2018 – The Musical Theater Project drenches itself in ‘Milk and Honey’
2016
Broadway World – November 10, 2016 – BWW Interview: Spotlight on Bill Rudman, Artistic Director, Musical Theater Project and Footlight Parade
Broadway World – November 2, 2016 – The Musical Theater Project Presents ALMOST LIKE BEING IN LOVE: THE SONGS OF LERNER & LOEWE
FreshWaterCleveland.com – February 17, 2016 – March to come in like a lion – at least culturally speaking
Broadway World – February 10, 2016 – The Musical Theater Project to Present BERNSTEIN ON BROADWAY, 3/5-6
2015
Cleveland.com – March 13, 2015 – Cleveland Arts listings for March 13-19: Michelle Knight at Cleveland Public Library’s Writers and Readers Series of Hope & More
2014
ClevelandClassical.com – September 30, 2014 – Smallwood & Underhill’s musical, “Remember the Pines,” to premiere at Shore Cultural Center from October 3
WCLV Classical 104.9/Ideastream – April 30, 2014 – Deconstructing Kurt Weill: The American Songs – Ty Alan Emerson, director and arranger
Broadway World – April 14, 2014 – BWW Reviews: The Musical Theater Project Presents DECONSTRUCTING KURT WEILL
Broadway World – April 8, 2014 – Musical Theater Project and CPT to Present DECONSTRUCTING KURT WEILL: THE AMERICAN SONGS, 5/2-3
2013
Cleveland.com – December 6, 2013 – Cleveland Arts listings for Dec. 6-12: Moscow Ballet’s “The Great Russian Nutcracker” & More
2010
Cleveland.com – April 12, 2010 – Verb Ballets presents a buffet of new dance dishes at Cleveland Public Theatre
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"…the movement is keenly wed to the edgy rhythmic thrust of Ty Alan Emerson’s music.”
2008
Cleveland.com – March 18, 2008 – Cleveland Composers Guild schedules free concert in April
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