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First Look: PNC Glenville Arts Campus set for dedication Wednesday By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

The Glenville Arts Campus, which will house FRONT International resident artists in the renovated Madison Building, originally the city’s first building for black medical professionals, is almost ready for its ribbon cut-

ting Oct. 4.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Khrys Shefton, director of real es-tate development at Fami-cos Foundation, admits she welled up as she watched contractors installing drywall this summer in the former Medical Associates Building in Glenville.

“At certain times, in certain moments, everything kind of hits you at once,” she said Tuesday in an interview.

The renovation of the medi-cal building as an apartment building, scheduled for com-pletion this weekend, is a milestone for Glenville.

Built in 1962, the building, at 1464 East 105th St., was designed in the modernist style by Robert P. Madison, Ohio’s first black registered architect.

It was the city’s first profes-sional building for black doc-tors, and the first black-owned commercial building in Ohio, according to India Pierce Lee, senior vice president of the Cleveland Foundation.

Now it’s embarking on a new life after a $2.8 million

renovation designed by City Architecture that includes the adjacent former Winnie’s Nursery.

A new lifeOn Wednesday from 4 to 7

p.m., Famicos and the FRONT International Cleveland Trien-nial will host a rededication and ribbon cutting for the medical building, renamed The Madison in honor of its 94-year-old architect.

The Madison and the ad-jacent former nursery, now known as the FRONT Porch, are being reborn as what Famicos calls the PNC Glen-ville Arts Campus. PNC Bank loaned $1.1 million to the project as its principal backer.

The Madison will serve over the next year as home to a residency program for a doz-en national and international artists participating in the inaugural FRONT Triennial next summer, a project led by cultural entrepreneur Fred Bidwell.

Six Cleveland artists, to be named Wednesday at the ribbon cutting, will also par-

ticipate in the residency, col-laborating with some of the visiting artists and engaging local residents in projects within the community.

Exhibit and event spaceThe FRONT Porch, a one-sto-

ry building designed by Ar-thur Saunders, Ohio’s second black registered architect ac-cording to Madison, will host exhibits, lectures, parties and community events associated with FRONT.

After FRONT ends in a year, The Madison will offer for rent 12 one-bedroom apartments on three floors, averaging 870 square feet, at roughly $1,100 a month, Shefton said.

The FRONT Porch could host ongoing community arts pro-grams, perhaps operated in collaboration with University Circle Institutions, she said.

Overall, the arts campus is a key element in the future of a neighborhood striving to reclaim its former glory as one of the city’s most desir-able districts and one of its

Cleveland Clinic to enter the Medicare insurance market

By Ginger Christ, The Plain Dealer

CLEVELAND, Ohio - For the second time this year, the Cleveland Clinic is entering a new insurance market.

Starting Oct. 15, in Cuyahoga County, the Clinic will offer two co-branded Medicare plans with Humana, a Louis-ville, Kentucky-based insur-ance provider. The Humana Cleveland Clinic Preferred Medicare Plans will include an HMO plan for those with Medicare and a plan for those eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. Enrollment will be open until Dec. 7, and cov-erage will begin Jan. 1, 2018.

“We’re very pleased to be able to work with Humana to offer this co-branded prod-uct,” said Kevin Sears, execu-tive director of market and network services for the Clin-ic. “We are very committed to taking care of all folks here in Ohio. We have an especially strong desire to make sure our seniors are able to get the care that they need.”

The Humana deal is the Clin-ic’s second co-branded effort with an insurance company and is part of a nationwide trend among health systems and payers to collaborate on insurance.

Marianne Udow-Phillips, ex-ecutive director of the Center for Healthcare Research and Transformation at the Univer-sity of Michigan and former director of the Michigan De-partment of Human Services, said she expects to see more collaborations as health sys-tems, especially academic medical centers, grapple with attracting a mix of patients to remain financially and aca-demically viable.

“Many academic medical centers around the country are looking at ways they can partner with health plans and partner with community hospitals,” Udow-Phillips said. “They need those patients, not just financially, but for their residency programs. They’re definitely looking at the long-term network.”

The Clinic in June an-

nounced co-branded individ-ual insurance plans with Oscar Insurance Corp. - a New York-based health insurance tech startup run by Josh Kushner, Jared Kushner’s brother - in five Northeast Ohio counties. And in September, University Hospitals unveiled co-brand-ed Medicare plans with across the UH footprint.

“I do see this as an impor-tant trend,” the Clinic’s Sears said. “We see this as a much better way to deliver value to patients, to employers and to other key stakeholders by working together, as op-posed to the more traditional relationship that can exist be-tween payers and providers.”

Sears said the Clinic will continue to look for ways to establish more collaborative relationships.

“We believe that partner-ships with payers are an im-portant part of our future. We can do more together in a spirit of collaboration and partnership than we could ever do alone,” Sears said.

The Clinic and Humana will share data and coordinate care, with the goal of reduc-ing healthcare costs and im-proving patient outcomes, he said.

“It helps the whole contin-uum of healthcare,” said Larry Costello, president of Humana

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A four-part series on stopping domestic violence begins Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at the Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center, 2806 Payne Ave., just east of Cleveland’s Inner Belt. The event, hosted by county Councilwoman Yvonne Conwell, will feature information on civil protection orders and navigating the court system, human trafficking, Marcy’s Law and self-defense techniques for women. Pictured is a challenge to men posted in June outside Dive Bar for Walk a MIle in Her Shoes, a fundraiser for the Domestic Violence and Child Advocacy Center. Walkers could drop out after 1/2 mile, but were challenged to be “man enough” to walk an additional half-mile in heels.

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Existing Humana members can stay on their current plans or enroll in one of the new plans, Costello said. He expects there to be a lot of interest in the Medicare Ad-vantage Dual-Eligible Spe-cial Needs plan because that population - those who are eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid - is under-served.

“I think we’ll have a lot of interest out there,” Costello said. “It’s access, and it’s af-fordability.”

Costello wouldn’t share county-specific information, but said the company has 330,000 Medicare members in Ohio.

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Nurses looking for employment stop at different booths repre-senting different Cleveland Clinic area hospitals on the third level of Cleveland Browns Stadium March 28, 2012. (Lisa DeJong/The Plain Dealer)

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The Cleveland Clinic continues its efforts to attract new em-ployees, notably nurses, to its ranks.

The Cleveland Clinic Talent Acquisition is hosting a hiring event for registered nurses and surgical technologists 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 at the HealthSpace Build-ing, 8911 Euclid Ave.

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proudest African-American communities.

The arts campus dovetails, Shefton said, with Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson’s recent-ly announced Neighborhood Transformation Initiative, aimed at boosting poor and low-income minority com-munities, primarily on the city’s East Side.

Part of a bigger pictureIt also aligns with the new

city’s new Thrive 105-93 vision for improving two important north-south corridors on the city’s East Side.

“It’s exciting to see this proj-ect actually happen,” Bidwell said of the arts campus. “We’re helping to empower Famicos to improve two properties in a pretty strategic neighbor-hood, and it’s just so cool that

one of them is historically im-portant,” he added, referring to The Madison.

The Cleveland Foundation is also engaged in the project, having donated $350,000 to-ward the arts campus renova-tions, plus another $390,000 to FRONT.

Of that amount, $150,000 will support the Glenville resi-dency starting in September for six international and six national artists from around the U.S.

The overseas artists are par-ticipating under the founda-tion’s 2018 Creative Fusion program.

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Opportunity Knocking in the Home of the BraveFrom rtandrews.blogspot.com

O, I will go, I shall go To see what the end will be — traditional Negro spiritual

Last Saturday Vernon Sweatte stood in front of a group of about fifty people gathered at Murtis Taylor Center in Cleve-land’s Mt. Pleasant neighbor-hood and talked about his work. He was serious and self-possessed. He was especially engaging as he talked about his pocket philosophy: he had four pockets and he was hungry to fill each of them.

Vernon Sweatte’s curiosity had changed his life.

Not all by itself. He had to work hard to scratch his itch. But he kept putting one foot in front of the other and

found himself inside of half a year earning about $5,000 a month and hungry for more.

It started about six months ago on a chilly Saturday morning back in March. Ver-non was one of a mixed bag of folk drawn to the Col-linwood Recreation Center on St. Clair Ave. in the city’s northeast corner. The assem-bly was mostly black, mostly men, with a few brave wom-en scattered among them. Their ages seemed to range from the mid twenties to the mid forties. There were likely a few a few formerly incar-

ment so this all comes to-gether,” said Lillian Kuri, the Cleveland foundation’s vice president for strategic grant-making, arts and urban de-sign initiatives.

Kuri also called the Glenville project a new outcome of the foundation’s work over the past decade in connecting the economic growth of Uni-versity Circle, the city’s medi-cal, educational and cultural hub, to surrounding neigh-borhoods.

Saving historyShefton, who oversaw the

arts campus renovation, sees all of that and more in the project.

“We’ve saved a piece of his-tory,” she said. “Bob Madison and the nine original doctors who financed this building

were pioneers beyond their time.”

Shefton said Famicos, which acts as the nonprofit commu-nity development corporation for Glenville, is in discussions with local entrepreneurs who might open a coffee house or cafe on the ground floor of The Madison during FRONT.

And she hopes such ven-tures could jumpstart a reviv-al of locally based commer-cial activity along East 105th Street, once one of the city’s busiest corridors.

“How do you rebuild that infrastructure that was once here? She asked. “This project could be a step in that direc-tion.”

Madison, who plans to at-tend Wednesday’s ceremony, is thrilled that the medical

building he designed during the Civil Rights era has a new mission.

“I never realized I’d get to be this old, but as I look back now, wow, what a life,” he said. “I’ve been through some stuff.”

He called the medical build-ing “the second building I’d ever designed for a major cli-ent, and it was the first time I’d ever done a building over two floors.”

He too admitted to feeling some emotion when he vis-ited the renovation in prog-ress.

“I’ve been by four or five times and you know what?” he said. “I like it.”

cerated people in the group — FIPs — but you very well could have been wrong had you tried to identify them.

The smart ones had arrived early for the advertised ses-sion, scheduled to begin at 10 o’clock. Small clusters of two or three folk were stand-ing here or there towards the front of the room, which had an airy feel owing to the near floor-to-ceiling wall of win-dows on its north side. There was a group of six or seven officious looking folk in one cluster — chiefly politicians and preachers. Some of them would later be called upon to offer words of encourage-ment and exhortation.

The invitees, Vernon among them, had come to an infor-mational meeting about ca-reers in construction. A good portion of them had in all likelihood never thought in career terms. Life happened too fast, seemed too random, with odds too high, dangers too great, distractions too many, rewards too distant, and support too tenuous to make thinking of having a career a realistic option. Once

the dream of the NBA faded, you got a job if you were lucky; if not, you got a hustle.

The session started on time, which is the way of the construction world. After an invocation and a welcome, the meat of the program got underway. There was a path-way to good jobs for those who were willing to work hard. The path wasn’t easy, it wouldn’t be fun, and there would be obstacles aplenty. The path required commit-ment, dedication, persever-ance, self-control in the face of challenge and even down-right hostility. But for those who stuck it out, there would be reward and deep satisfac-tion.

Most of this information and real life lessons came from the tell-it-like-it-is presentation of the tag team of Glen Shumate and Cordell Stokes. Shumate is executive vice president of the Construction Employers Association, the area’s pre-mier association of big union contractors. They have a po-sition interest in recruiting top talent to the construc-tion industry, and Shumate

leads their efforts amidst the changing demographics of northeast Ohio. Stokes is son and nephew of Cleveland political royalty, and it’s clear the apple didn’t fall from the tree in terms of his looks and presence; it rolled over to the business side of the orchard. His consulting company has a contract to help recruit and then train industry newcom-ers. Together they are like a pair of honest Army recruit-ers, pointing out the rewards but not stinting on the cost.

At one point in the Col-linwood meeting, Shumate asked an attractive young woman in the rear to step forward and share her experi-ence.

The young woman, Lauren Benton — a Shaker HS grad and former model — turned out to be an apprentice car-penter. Her authentic remarks captured the crowd’s atten-tion.

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Cleveland is growing from inside out, with room to add 130,000 on East Side: CSU report By Steven Litt, The Plain Dealer

A map from the latest report from Cleveland State University’s Center for Population Dynamics charts the estimated change in housing units from 1970 to 2015, with growth clearly indicated

within a two mile radius of downtown.

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The city is slowly repop-ulating from the inside out, with growth occurring within a 2-mile radius of down-town.

Between 2 and 6 miles out from the center, where it has thinned out the most in recent decades, the city also has plenty of room to add newcomers, according to a new study released by Cleveland State University’s Center for Population Dynamics.

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The city’s housing strategy, therefore, should “leverage this ‘inside out’ pattern with a focus on the hardest hit areas that are adjacent to the urban core, particularly those neighborhoods that are 2 to 4 miles and 4 to 6 miles outside of Downtown.”

Adjusting to post-industrial economy

“We’re still in the infancy of restructuring into a new economy,” Richey Piiparinen, di-rector of the Center for Population Dynam-ics and co-author of the new report with Tom Bier, Charlie Post and Mark Salling, said in an interview Thursday.

The new report is the latest in a series of policy briefs and analyses that have ex-plored the demographics of growing neigh-borhoods in the city, while also examining how that growth could spread.

Some of that work influenced Mayor Frank Jackson’s recently announced Neighbor-hood Transformation Initiative, aimed at boosting economically distressed commu-nities.

“The city is capturing most of the new

knowledge workers in the urban core,” Pii-parinen said, referring to highly educated residents working in technology, traditional services or other fields requiring advanced education.

Where growth canceled out decline

The report shows that within 2 miles of Public Square, which includes Ohio City, Tremont and Detroit Shoreway, the influx of new residents between 1970 and 2015 vir-tually neutralized the loss of population in that area.

Population losses within that radius were 2 percent during the 45-year period, com-pared with 50.1 percent and 51.7 percent in the radii between 2 to 4 miles and 4 to 6 miles, respectively, the report states.



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At the same time, the number of housing units within a 2-mile radius of Public Square increased 38.4 percent, indicating strong demand, the report states.

Where the land isDuring that same period, neighborhoods

between 2 and 6 miles from Public Square accounted for 62 percent of the city’s pop-ulation loss and 89 percent of its losses in housing units since 1970.

As a consequence, “that’s where the land is,” Piiparinen said.

Growth is spreading out toward those ar-eas, Piiparinen said. But he posed the ques-tion, “is it at the point of spreading out on its own?”

The center’s report suggests that neigh-borhoods such as Fairfax and Hough should be examined block by block to determine areas that could benefit from various types of intervention, including “demolition and land holding, subsidized new construction and/or rehab, and market-rate new con-struction and/or rehab.”

How much to build?But how much new housing could or

should be built? And how would it affect the city’s population?

As a thought exercise, the report takes a cue from the newly published e-book by CSU housing scholar Tom Bier, an associate of the university.

Bier’s book examines the relationship be-tween suburban sprawl and inner city aban-donment and decay, and how regional tax growth sharing could stabilize the region.

It also looks at how much growth it would take to reinvigorate the declining tax base in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County.

Bier estimated that it would take 3,200 new housing units in the county every year for 20 years to grow the tax base at the rate of inflation.

Because suburban areas are largely built out within the county, and because the city has thinned out dramatically over the past half century, it could accommodate half of the needed growth, or 1,600 housing units, according to Bier, the report states.

A Cleveland of the future?The resulting 32,000 units could boost the

city’s population by 67,100 people. And if existing housing units were renovated and occupancy increased from today’s levels to 90 percent, the average over the past five decades, another 62,900 people could be accommodated.

“Combined, the city’s population would grow from about 390,600 to 520,600 in 20 years, a gain of 130,000 people,” the report says.

Piiparinen’s conclusion?“Cleveland has amazing assets,” he said,

“and there’s still room to build out from the inner core.”

Prosecutor turns his life around to free the Wrongful Convicted

By CELEST HART, Contributing WriterBlind Justice, published August 2017, by Mark Godsey, blatantly exposes the psychology and politics of wrongful convictions, from the inside world of the justice system. Godsey, a former New York federal prosecutor, converted to the outer side and co-founded the Ohio Innocent Project (OIP), in 2003. In fourteen years, the OIP freed 25 exonerees of the 2,101 nationwide, whom spent a combined total of 18,250 years in prison, ac-cording to the National Registry of Exonerations. In Blind Justice, Godsey, also a professor at the University of Cincinnati Rosenthal Law School, provides answers to the question, “How are the innocent wrongfully convicted?”

“I left my prosecutors office arrogant and with an eye closed to the imperfections in the system. Only through a process of education brought about by being forced to help supervise the Ken-tucky Innocent Project, as a fledging academic, did I eventually recognize the need for change,” wrote Godsey.

Six of the eight chapters in the book begin with the word ‘Blind’ followed by, Denial, Ambition, Bias, Memory, Intuition and Tunnel Vision. God-sey explains how flaws in the human psyche and political pressures affect police officers, prosecu-tors, judges and defense lawyers’ objectivity and causes these ‘actors to behave in bizarre and in-credibly unjust ways.’

“Because of my background as a prosecutor I felt I could answer some pressing questions about how actors in our criminal justice system behave that most others couldn’t. From my perch as a prosecutor, I have witnessed bizarre human behavior that has left me both fascinated and shaken. I have seen how these human flaws have resulted in tragic, gut-wrenching injustices. I am honest about what I saw, heard and did,” said Godsey.

Godsey explicates several criminal cases the OIP exonerated including the 1989 Clarence El-kins murder of his mother-in-law and rape of his six-year-old niece, Dean Gillispie’s s serial rape conviction, Ricky Jackson who served 39 years for murder and Derrick Wheatt, Eugene Johnson and Laurese Glover, all minors known as the East Cleveland Three, whom served 19 years each for murder.

Godsey depicts the tricks and tactics utilized in police interrogations, photo line-ups, official mis-conduct, incentivized witnesses (snitches) and faulty forensic lab results that lead to false con-fessions, misidentifications, perjury and injustice. He shows how police and prosecutors manipulate and/or coerce memories to provide the ‘right’ an-swers for conviction versus the truth.

Blind Justice also provides answers for criminal justice reform, Godsey says, to correct serious mistakes, the need for humility and the ability to accept our human limitations in that ‘all of us are flawed, all are broken.’

Godsey details the necessity to implement struc-tural and procedural changes to compensate for psychological flaws. He delivers concise solutions to problem areas such as complete videotaping of interrogations, tighter controlled snitches and the elections of judges and prosecutors.

Positive changes have occurred, ‘surely but slowly,’ due the innocent movement’s continuous growth. Godsey says more than 25 nationwide prosecutors’ offices opened conviction integrity units that exonerated 58 of the 149 persons in 2015.

“Prosecutor (Cuyahoga County) Mary McGrath’s act of freeing Ricky Jackson with an open mind and open heart is a testament to the power of this change. This was not a doomsday book. The good news is change is beginning to happen,” said Godsey.

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path. But then she had at-tended a similar session in the midst of a job search, and carpentry attracted her.

Her unvarnished comments could be sorted into two halves. The job had its own demands. You had to be on time and ready to work at the 7:30AM starting time, not just strolling onto the site. You had to have your own tools, and having your own car or truck was essential. Drug testing was real: fail a test and you are sent home.

Benton also schooled her audience with practical tips. She warned them not to get comfortable with co-work-ers, to learn by observation. And while the money is good, with regular pay raises, the weather was mercurial and when — not if — the work slowed, you were smart if you had been saving your money and living off your average unemployment wage.

Sweatte heard all this talk and wondered if it were true. So he signed up, and after successfully navigat-ing CEA’s qualifying process, soon found himself enrolled in SOAR, a workforce devel-opment program focused on such soft skills as effec-tive communication, conflict management, and business etiquette. Six weeks later, Sweatte stood proudly at a graduation ceremony at the Urban League, which runs the program [Solid Opportu-nities for Advancement and Retention].

Sweatte now works for Traff-tech. He is a member of La-borers Local 860, comprised of heavy highway construc-tion workers. On Saturday he found himself echoing car-penter’s apprentice Benton: work hard and “Don’t take nothing personal.”

These days, when he is not testifying for the CEA-Urban League collaboration, Swe-atte works sixty hours a week and looking forward to his pending $4/hr. raise, which could raise his overtime pay to better than $34/hour. Do the math.

CEA has been offering its recruitment sessions all over town. Sessions have been held in the Lee-Harvard and Detroit Shoreway neighbor-hoods, as well as in Maple Heights.

The next one is tonight, from 6-8PM, at the Cathedral Worship Center, 21601 Euclid Ave., Euclid OH 44117. Re-freshments and opportunity will be provided.

For more information, visit ceacisp.org or buildohio.org.

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The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Performing Arts Series Offers Something for Everyone

By Jeff Niesel

Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9. (Photo by Stephanie Berger)

For nearly all of its 100-year history, the Cleveland Mu-seum of Art has presented music from around the world, and the museum continues that long-standing tradition this year with the annual Performing Arts Series that kicks off on Oct. 4 with the Chamber Music in the Galler-ies program. This year’s series runs a wide gamut and show-cases everything from 1920s jazz to music for the gamelan and kayagum to surrealist film scores. “We aim to pres-ent the greatest examples of the widest range of the most beautiful musical traditions to Cleveland audiences,” says Tom Welsh, the museum’s director of performing arts. “Every year is totally different because the artists who come through are new each time.”

The CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program that launches the se-ries on Oct. 4 features artists from the Cleveland Institute of Music and Case Western Reserve University’s early and baroque music programs. The musicians will present mixed programs of chamber music, and the concerts regularly feature instruments from the museum’s keyboard col-lection. “We have a terrific relationship with them,” says Welsh. “We present young artists performing chamber music in the galleries. It’s very beautiful and simple in its el-egance. We push music out into the galleries, and people love it. It’s been a quiet suc-cess for us, so we want to keep it going.” Those concerts take place in the museum’s galleries on the first Wednes-day of the month through May 2018.

Then, on Wednesday, Oct. 11, pianist Henry Butler brings his jazz combo Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 to town. Butler and trumpeter Steven Bernstein first worked to-gether in 1998 in the Kansas City All Stars. They reunited in 2011 for a concert in New York where they performed pieces by Bessie Smith and Jelly Roll Morton. “We’re doing this as a great celebration of the museum’s major exhibition in the fall, which is The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s,” says Welsh. “You can’t have a jazz exhibit without music. These are two great artists who are not only superb jazz musicians but historians of the field of jazz. They put to-gether this band that springs from the music of the 1920s. They add their own irreverent twist to the music.”

On Oct. 20, CMA pays trib-ute to composer Lou Harrison with Lou Harrison Centen-nial!, a program that includes Harrison’s Concerto for Piano and Javanese Gamelan, fea-turing pianist Sarah Cahill.

The program also includes a performance by Gamelan Galak Tika under the direc-tion of Evan Ziporyn. “There’s attention all over America for his centennial year,” says Welsh. “He integrated non-Western traditions of Asia and Southeast Asia into what we think of as classical music and did it in a sophisticated way. He was a contemporary of John Cage and Henry Cow-ell and among the first wave of truly American composers who shined a light on tradi-tions beyond the European classical tradition. You can’t get enough of Lou Harrison’s music in my opinion.”

An Akron native, director Jim Jarmusch brings his ex-perimental duo SQÜRL to town on Nov. 1.

Jarmusch, who plays electric guitar, and drummer Carter Logan describe the group as an “enthusiastically marginal rock band from New York City.” Jarmusch and Logan started scoring music for film in 2009; you can hear them in Jarmusch’s latest films Only Lovers Left Alive and Pater-son. “Jim’s film career speaks for itself, but he loves play-ing music, and I think this is really a passion project for him,” says Welsh. “We’ll enjoy another aspect from his cre-ative mind.” The program fea-tures scores by Jarmusch and Logan for four silent films by dada and surrealist artist Man Ray. Relying heavily on loops, synthesizers, and effected guitars, the semi-improvised scores emphasize the band’s more experimental, ambient, and drone-like tendencies. Reto Thüring, curator of con-temporary art, will host an on-stage conversation with the duo after the performance.

In conjunction with the exhibition Chaekgeori: Plea-

sure of Possessions in Korean Painted Screens, kayagum virtuoso Ji Aeri will deliver an “intimate” concert of Korean music, both traditional and contemporary, on Nov. 5. The kayagum, a zither-like instru-ment with 12 strings, is relat-ed to the Japanese koto and the Chinese guzheng. “She will perform both contempo-rary and traditional music on her instrument,” says Welsh. “[Chaekgeori] is a beautiful focused show on a particular Korean art form, and I was ea-ger to include a companion concert.” The performance takes place on the closing day of the Korean screens exhibi-tion.

Most recently the organ-ist-in-residence at the Kitara Concert Hall in Sapporo, Ja-pan, Davide Mariano has performed as organist, harp-sichordist and pianist in pres-tigious venues in Europe, the U.S. and Asia. He performs on Jan. 14. “We intend to feature our organ each season,” says Welsh. Mariano’s Cleveland debut will feature works by Schumann, Widor and J. S. Bach.

The classic children’s book and Academy Award–nomi-nated film Paddle to the Sea is the focus of a new project that “looks at our relationship to the bodies of water that con-nect our lives.” On Feb. 11, the Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion performs its new score for the film, which tells the story of a native Canadian boy who carves a wooden figure called Paddle-to-the-Sea. “They’re a razor sharp and fast-rising new music en-semble,” says Welsh. “The film is a quasi-documentary film. They stripped off the original score and re-did it. It’s a beau-tiful program of film and live music. I saw them do rehears-

als of it and it’s very beautiful.” The score features new music by composers such as Philip Glass and Jacob Druckman and the traditional music of the Shona people of Zimba-bwe.

A second percussion ensem-ble, Mantra Percussion comes to the Transformer Station for a special performance on Feb. 23. Mantra Percussion has commissioned or premiered over 40 new works for percus-sion ensemble since it formed in 2009; it’ll perform “Timber,” a piece it co-commissioned with Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon. “The piece is written for these particular pieces of wood,” says Welsh. “It’s a post-minimalist piece. Audiences can move around them or sit in a chair. It’s a gorgeous piece.”

O March 4, Oberlin Contem-porary Music Ensemble will play a program that will be announced closer to the date, and on March 11, there will be a CIM Organ Studio Recital with conservatory musicians who work with acclaimed organist Todd Wilson. They’ll present an afternoon recital of works for solo organ on the museum’s McMyler Me-morial Organ. “This makes a nice companion piece with CIM. Oberlin’s Contemporary Music Ensemble is devoted to the music of our time and both programs greatly ex-pand the repertoire available to our audiences.”

Wu Man will perform with Huayin Shadow Puppet Band on March 21. An internation-ally renowned pipa virtuoso, Wu Man will join the Huayin Shadow Puppet Band for a program of old-tune tradi-tional music with shadow puppetry. “She was here a few years ago,” says Welsh. “She’s part of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. She’s probably the most famous traditional Chinese musician playing the concert halls in the world. She uses her success to share the spotlight with lesser known artists of Chinese music like the Huayin Shadow Pup-pet Band. It’s a rural musical troupe, and it’s fantastically fun folkloric music with shad-ow puppets.”

Founded in 1973 by director Peter Phillips, Tallis Scholars perform on April 13. Through their recordings and con-cert performances, they’ve become the leading expo-nents of Renaissance sacred music throughout the world. “They’re the best in Renais-sance choral music.” They’ll play “War and Peace,” a pro-gram commemorating those who lost their lives in the First World War that features works by Josquin, Guerrero, Pärt, Mouton, Lobo, Victoria, Tavener and Palestrina.



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Josh Gordon hasn’t yet applied for reinstatement despite leaving rehab a week agoBy Mary Kay Cabot, cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Josh Gor-don has been out of rehab for almost a week, but hasn’t yet applied for reinstatement to the NFL, a league source confirmed for cleveland.com Tuesday.

Profootballtalk.com first re-ported Tuesday that Gordon has yet to reach back out to the NFL to lift his ban for us-ing recreational drugs.

Gordon, whose rights are owned by the Browns, post-ed a Snapchat video last Wednesday of working out and announcing that it was his first day out of the inpa-tient rehab facility.

Six days later, he has yet to initiate the process of getting back into the league.

Gordon’s petition for re-instatement was denied in May, but a league source told cleveland.com that he’d be eligible to re-apply in the fall. He can do so at any time.

Gordon has been living in Gainesville, Fla., with his business manager Michael Johnson, and working out with former Olympic sprinter Tim Montgomery, who owns N.U.M.A. Speed there.

Montgomery told cleveland.com in August that Gordon checked himself into rehab about 90 days ago in hopes of being reinstated once he got out. He said it was his under-standing that Gordon hadn’t tested positive again, but that he failed to report for some of his mandatory drug tests.

Montgomery said Gordon was out of rehab on a day pass in early September and came and worked out with him.

“He’s about 231 (pounds) right now, and he’s been working out there, so it won’t take him long,” Montgomery said at the time. “He came in here (around Sept. 1) and he

was out of shape and hadn’t caught a football in two months, but that football didn’t hit the ground.’’

Montgomery: Gordon will be back in the NFL soon

He said Gordon filmed an interview that day for Unin-terrupted, LeBron James’ web site for athletes’ videos and podcasts.

“He told them a lot of stuff that I didn’t even know,’’ said Montgomery. “He opened up really, really big. ... What I saw that day was very deep.’’

The Browns are talent-starved at receiver, but have so far been noncommittal when asked about Gordon. When/if he’s reinstated, they’ll meet with him, evaluate the situation and go from there.

The NFL may be cautious in reinstating him considering that he’s had a difficult time making it stick.

But first, he must re-apply.

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