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CutTime would like to thank DSO Board President Emeritus James B. Nicholson for his continuous generous contributions to our mission and developing business model. Jim has recognized the tremendous potential of our work since 2008 and began contributing personally in 2012. Also donating his valuable business advice and in-kind support, Jim's philanthropy for the arts is benefitting all of Detroit. Please join me in thanking him and his wife Anne for believing in a new future for classical music! If you'd like to join him, consider making a tax-deductible contribution to CutTime thru the Arts League of Michigan.
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June 4, 2013 

 

Hello again!      

 

Don't blink... Sometimes things change overnight! Suddenly Classical Revolution Detroit (CRD) is empowered with a WEEKLY summer series of events at New Center Park in Midtown Detroit! What a wonderful opportunity to introduce art music to a public that AVOIDS classical concerts! We'll be reading CutTime charts amplified in this pocket park smack across the street from the mighty Fisher Building on W. Grand Blvd. at 2nd Ave. EVERY Thursday noon-1pm!

 

Except for July 4, this Thursday lunch series for Midtown Detroit, Inc. will explore different aspects of written instrumental music-making with various entertaining, interactive and informative techniques. We begin June 6 with CutTime Simfonica powered by CRD soldiers John McLaughlin Williams, Dan Winnick, Leah Lucas Celebi, Leslie DeShazor and Brandon Cota... and a few audience volunteers helping us demonstrate why making classical MATTER is so much fun!

 

We'll read CutTime Players' music too, as well as feature soloists (TBA) and readings of Schubert's Octet and Dvorak's Bass Quintet. There are too many dates (13) to list here but you can read the Facebook event pages or see the New Center Park line up or everything at cuttime.com... including a runout to Redford this June 9 (Su) in Bell Creek Park 2p! Meanwhile there are other rehearsed concert dates to tell you about...

 

Those of you near Rochester, MI can catch CutTime String Quartet (basically a budget Simfonica) June 14 (Fr) 7p-9 at Cranberry Lake Farm on Predmore. The very next afternoon, the same group will play at Buck Park (formerly Harmonie Park) 1:45p as part of a Duke Ellington festival sponsored by Detroit Conservancy 300! With improvisers Derek Reeves and Dan Winnick onboard, people will be talking about these for a looong time... and they're all FREE!

 

A regular club CRD happens at Grand Rapids' Speak EZ Lounge June 12 (W) 7p and Detroit's Cadieux Caf� June 25 (T) 8p with more to come. Momentum in these cultural markets is really growing fast and CutTime is in the finals for a granting process to expand CRD into the future! Wish us luck and be ready to help us find matching funds for this effort.

 

Currently, I'm writing this from Rochester, NY at the annual convention of the International Society of Bassists where I'm selling music publications from my newly expanded catalog. Later this month, I'll attend the beginning of the League of American Orchestras conference in St. Louis where I'll speak (briefly) about the lessons learned inciting Classical Revolution.

 

I hope to see you at one of these this summer!

 

- Rick

 

 
Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
New Center Park connects new audiences to classical
New Center Park stage
Be sure to tell family and friends about this landmark, interactive experience at beautiful New Center Park making classical REAL for Detroiters every Thursday at noon!
  
We'll feature a variety of instrumental combinations and talk about the sport of making acoustic music matter for real meaning, inspiration and imagination!                    
This park is at W. Grand Blvd. and 2nd Ave. Street parking using meters are on all the surrounding streets.
CutTime String Quartet series around Detroit
Three events and concerts feature Brahms to Ellington!
Mr. CutTime in front of Buck Park
In Redford's Bell Creek Park June 9 (Su) 2pm will have DSO musicians Hai-Xin Wu, Rachel Klaus and Hang Su with Mr. CutTime leading moving classical favorites plus CutTime originals like Pork 'n Beans and City of Trees.
  
June 14 (Fr) 7p, on the porch of the rural Cranberry Lake Farmhouse, north of Rochester, CSQ features symphonic favorites with saucy classics by Duke Ellington with Velda Kelly, Derek Reeves and Dan Winnick, in anticipation of...
  
June 15 (Sa) 1:45 sharp, a downtown Detroit set in beautiful Buck Park (formerly Harmonie Park). This all Ellington festival will have dozens of groups from noon to 10pm and are all free of charge. Best CutTime info at website.
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