The most recent version of "Accent on Youngstown" really got me fired up.
First off, the collection of extreme sports in the Ohio snow was just awesome. Good music, good editing, and good imagination - it just shows that people are having fun all over the place.
Second, the interview with Randall Craid Fleischer from the Youngstown Symphony was very insightful. There are "young people's concerts" with the symphony all this week which is a new direction for the YSO, and tomorrow night is a fusion concert as the YSO plays with Latin jazz/funk artist Poncho Sanchez.
check Poncho out:
Fleischer makes the good point Youngstown is lucky to be a market such that an professional orchestral musician can be employed here. There is enough of a demand and a market.
Some communities can't support their orchestras.
Miami Florida lost theirs. Columbus Ohio is on the brink of losing its orchestra.
For 82 years and counting, the region has supported the orchestra - which is fantastic. But the house that the Yo's Warner Brothers buiit, like Youngstown, is a big tent and there is room for more people from "Cleveburgh".
If you are reading this blog from Cleveland to Pittsburgh, come out to Youngstown this weekend and eat at Overture (the restaurant at the symphony) and enjoy the show.
Finally, more good news for downtown dining fans: George from Cafe Cimmento announced in the video that their expansion in downtown Youngstown is underway, and should be finished sometime in April.
watch the second Accent on Youngstown:
This video is great - it shows that people and their dreams are flourishing in Youngstown.
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The new Symphony director seems great... he has tremendous enthusiasm. Just wanted to point out that family concerts and kids concerts aren't new: I remember going to them as a child in the late 80s/90s and they continued to this day. That said, his take on it and his promotion of the events is much different from the directors of the past.
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