[NEohioPAL]Red's "Lenny and Steve" press reelase

[ida at redanorchestra.org]

As per your request, here is the Lenny and Steve press release
embedded in the e-mail.  Thanks-
Ida Mercer





Monday, February 23, 2004
						PRESS RELEASE
							Press Contact: Ida Mercer
							ida at redanorchestra.org
							440.519.1733



Red {an orchestra} presents
Lenny and Steve Rediscovered

Jonathan Sheffer, conductor
Franklin Cohen, clarinet


	CLEVELAND:  Red {an orchestra} presents the music of two of
America’s most celebrated collaborators, Leonard Bernstein and
Stephen Sondheim in two performances: Tuesday, April 13th, 2004 at
8:00 p.m. at Gamble Auditorium, Baldwin-Wallace College in Berea,
Ohio; and Wednesday, April 14th, 2004 at 8:00 p.m. at Tri-C Metro
Campus Auditorium, Cleveland.

	The performances will be conducted by Red’s Artistic Director,
Jonathan Sheffer, and will feature the renowned principal clarinetist
of the Cleveland Orchestra, Franklin Cohen, as  soloist in two
remarkable works by Leonard Bernstein.  

Tickets for Lenny and Steve Rediscovered are on sale now for $55, $37,
$26, and $15. For more information, call Red {an orchestra} at:
440.519.1733 or visit our website at www.redanorchestra.org.






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Franklin Cohen
Clarinet soloist

        Franklin Cohen, principal clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra
since 1976, has distinguished himself as one of the outstanding
clarinetists of his generation.  His playing has been described as
“hypnotic, impeccable, brilliant. .….with a vocal quality that would
be the envy of any singer.”  A native New Yorker, Franklin Cohen
started music lessons with his mother, a professional pianist, at the
age of ten.  Mr. Cohen attended The Juilliard School of Music and
began his orchestral career when Leopold Stowkowski chose him as
principal clarinetist for the American Symphony Orchestra.  He
subsequently held the same position with the Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra and the Casals Festival Orchestra.  Since joining the
Cleveland Orchestra, Mr. Cohen has appeared as soloist in well over
120 of their performances, most recently in December 2003.
          As recitalist and chamber music performer, Mr. Cohen has
participated in the Marlboro, Casals, Sarasota and Aspen music
festivals and is a long-standing member of the Santa Fe Chamber Music
Festival.  He has also performed with the Cavani, Emerson, Guarneri,
Miami, Miro, Shostakovitch and Tokyo string quartets and with the
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.  Mr. Cohen has chaired the
clarinet department at the Cleveland Institute of Music since 1976,
and at Kent/Blossom Music’s professional training program.  
         Mr. Cohen is part of a musical family.  His daughter, Diana,
is concertmaster of the Charleston Symphony and his son, Alexander,
is a second-year percussion student at CIM.  His late wife, Lynette
Diers Cohen, was a prominent bassoonist and a founding musician and
board member of Red {an orchestra}.