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As the VIVO Music Festival鈥檚 ninth season unfolds through this Saturday, Sept. 9, friendship and the joy of sharing music with the Columbus community remain the most important things for the festival鈥檚 musicians.

Since 2017 Antoine Clark鈥檚 list of guest conducting engagements has grown steadily longer and, this season, will expand coast to coast. But even as Clark's conducting career takes him farther afield, he鈥檚 set to remain on the podium of one of central Ohio鈥檚 professional orchestras.

During the last 25 years, Shirley has gone from the rhythm section of a rising-star rock band to L.A.鈥檚 Skid Row and, most recently, to a new career as a classical composer in his current home of Newark, Ohio. The story of Shirley鈥檚 path to central Ohio is one of loneliness and addiction, of mountaintop highs and rock-bottom despair and, ultimately, recovery and redemption. And music was the friend that led him to a new life.

When Scott Hanratty isn't performing as a professional bassoonist, he's often enjoying the meditative music of weaving cozy textiles on his loom.

Founded as the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra, the Worthington Chamber Orchestra will, moving forward, perform as an entity separate from McConnell Arts Center.

鈥淚t was here, it was gone and it wouldn鈥檛 go away.鈥漈hat鈥檚 how Columbus composer Sharon Udoh describes her experience of the year 2020.

It's the stuff of anxiety dreams 鈥� having to play the 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.

A video about African and African American women leaders and showcasing the work of a Columbus composer, visual artist and cello quartet has recently been鈥�

Being able to be in more than one place at the same time might seem like a futuristic dream, but it will soon be a reality for the Columbus Symphony鈥�

Last spring, the coronavirus pandemic forced the McConnell Arts Center Chamber Orchestra鈥檚 2019-20 season to a premature close. This Saturday the鈥�