GIVING THANKS

ALL ABOUT THE ARTS

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Barely 8 months have passed since on March 17 of this year I wrote our first post for www.Rafaelmusicnotes.com In the ensuing months my blog has welcomed 3,242 visitors – 584 of them regulars who also follow my Music for All Seasons in Cincinnati Facebook group page, where they can also find postings by other colleagues involved in the arts.

Our followers have viewed 100 posts of ours 5,483 times. I have then shared those in other pages of CCM alumni and students. We’ve posted reviews of theatre, dance and musical performances given here in Cincinnati as well as recordings of music of all kinds made all over the world. We are happy to have helped promote the work of individual artists and arts organizations in our Queen City and as far afield as Cuba, Australia and Europe. Artists whose work I have loved have then quoted and thanked me in their own web pages and blogs. But it’s me who has to give thanks.

To say that I am thrilled is an understatement. And it is not all. I am above all immensely grateful to Cincinnati, a great city that welcomed Kimberly and me seven years ago. And, more than anything else, I want to wish my readers a joyous holiday season, starting with Thanksgiving and continuing through the coming months of holidays and celebrations. We are all of us in this together, celebrating the arts, one of the greatest gifts in life.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Rafael de Acha

 

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Rafael de Acha has enjoyed a distinguished career in the arts as a performer, stage director, producer, and educator. He was born and grew up in Cuba. At the age of 17 he moved to the United States to study Drama at the University of Minnesota, and later Languages at L.A. City College, Music at the Juilliard School of Music, at the University of Cincinnati’s College Conservatory of Music, and at the New England Conservatory of Music, from which he received the Master's degree. He has taught courses on the History of Music at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music and at Florida International University, and contributed writings and reviews to Seen and Heard International (www.seenandheard-international.com ) and to this blog. He co-founded the award-winning New Theatre in Coral Gables, Florida, where he produced and staged twenty seasons of classical and contemporary theater, including fifty world premieres of plays that went on to have international and national productions on and off Broadway, including Ana in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2002 and Tony Nomination 2003.) In 2006 he was presented with a citation from The Dade County Cultural Affairs Council for “trailblazing contributions to the arts in South Florida.”

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