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Piano Cleveland partners with Cleveland Intern’l Film Fest
Piano Cleveland is proud to be a community partner for the 49th Cleveland International Film Festival. As a community partner, Piano Cleveland will be co-presenting the documentary, Linda Perry: Let It Die […]
Continue ReadingRemembering Clara Rankin
Longtime Piano Cleveland friend and patron, Clara Rankin passed away earlier this week. Lifetimes—and the things to which we devote ourselves within those lifetimes—are finite. While Clara will remain an […]
Continue ReadingContestant Experience
A month before the 1987 Casadesus Competition, Steve Glaser’s hand was injured in an accident. He told a reporter he was relieved. “‘Psychologically it’s released me from the pressure of […]
Continue ReadingThe Breakup, pt. 2
In the last blog post, you saw how things got rocky between the founders of the competition and the newly formed Friends of the Competition in the early 1990s. While […]
Continue ReadingThe Breakup, pt. 1
Karen Knowlton had been the primary organizer and executive director of the Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition since the late 1980s. She was not a voting member of any board […]
Continue ReadingThe ‘93 Fiasco
By Suzanna Feldkamp “Competitions have always been wild and crazy things. This year’s Casadesus seemed to exist in outer space.” At least it did according to Donald Rosenberg, music critic […]
Continue ReadingThe Robert Casadesus International Piano Competition
By Suzanna Feldkamp When William Eves showed up to his piano lesson at Fontainebleau a little worse for the wear, his teacher simply smiled and said, in his thick French accent, […]
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