Sunday, September 2, 2012  2p-4

CutTime Simfonica @ Classical Revolution Cleveland
@ Barking Spider Tavern
11310 Juniper Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106
Playing with the Cleveland team of CIM alumni, Rick leads the string sextet with new Simfoni-cat Canton Symphony Concertmaster Lauren Roth and others! This one-hour set will feature the usual CutTime favorites, including City of Trees, Pork 'n Beans and Russlan and Ludmilla Overture! This event is free and public.

 

Friday, September 8, 2012  7:30p-9:05

CutTime Players @ Farmington Hills
@ Farmington Players Barn Theatre
32332 West Twelve Mile Rd. Farmington Hills, MI 48334
A variety program of classical top 100 begins the new, national season for CutTime. With a mix of principal DSO and MOT musicians, audiences will gain insights into why classical music ROCKS the way it does! The program is below.
The tickets are $19 for adults; $17 for seniors over 62 and students. They can be purchased over the phone at (248) 473-1848 or on line at the City of Farmington Hills website. 

Russlan and Ludmilla Overture Glinka
Opening of Symphony No. 25 Mozart
Fur Elise Beethoven
The Sorcerer's Apprentice Dukas
Hungarian Dance No. 5 Brahms
Radetzky March J. Strauss
The Entertainer Rag Joplin
Dance of the Comedians Smetana

 

Thursday, September 20, 2012  3:00p-4:30

CutTime String Quartet @ ArtPrize
@ Paint in Action (link)
250 Ionia SW Grand Rapids, MI, 2nd floor of "Purple-East" bldg.
A variety program of classical Mr. CutTime has arranged for the string quartet to be played while duo artists Tali Farchi and Royce Deans create spontaneously to live music. Expect to hear City of Trees (the ArtPrize entry), Pork 'n Beans, Beethoven's 5th and other hits! This event is FREE, FREE, FREE!

 

Saturday, September 22, 2012  1:00p-1:20

CutTime Simfonica @ ArtPrize (# 53063) ArtPrize Page 
@ Royce Auditorium of St. Cecilia Music Society
24 Ransom Ave. Grand Rapids, MI 49503
CutTime enters Highland Park, MI: City of Trees in a bid for the big cash prize at this revolutionary art competition. Better odds are to win the classical music category if enough registered voters choose it. Rick will lead Grand Rapids Symphony Orchestra musicians in this double performance of the work. This event is FREE. Timing is strict, so arrive EARLY, INSIDE!

 

Sunday, September 30, 2012  3p-5

CutTime Simfonica @ Mallarme Chamber Players (link)
@ Hayti Heritage Center
804 Old Fayetteville St. Durham, NC
CutTime teams up with Mallarme Chamber Players (with North Carolina Symphony Orchestra musicians) for a full concert of Dvorak string sextet Op. 48 and several CutTime hits! A week of interviews, rehearsals, educational demonstrations and runout performances will precede this final concert. Contact MCP for the schedule.
  PROGRAM:
Dvorak String Sextet Op. 48
Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Robinson Pork 'n Beans
Robinson Gitcha Groove On!
Robinson Elegy
Robinson City of Trees
Read the critical review by CVNC & a preview by the Herald Sun.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012  8p-11

Classical Revolution Detroit - Season Opener
@ Cadieux Cafe link
4300 Cadieux Rd. Detroit, MI 48224
Join us early in the week for some Brahms with your beer, Mozart with your mussels and Poulenc with your pomme frites! Already we have pianists Doug Scott and Linette Popoff-Parks, flutist Kasey Martin, clarinetist Sam Martin, violinist Katie Lynch Wersell, and Mr. CutTime! It should be a cathartic evening of anything goes classical!

 

Tuesday, November 27, 2012  8p-11

Classical Revolution Detroit - Stuffing and Trimmings
@ Cadieux Cafe link
4300 Cadieux Rd. Detroit, MI 48224
We're going back to the Cadieux for more discovery, information and surprises! 

 

Friday, November 30, 2012  7p & 8:30 sets

CutTime Players - Czarist Nights  (link)
@ Detroit Institute of Arts  5200 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48202
For the DIA's imperialist Russia exhibit CutTime Players performs two sets of Russian symphonic classics with Mussorgsky's fabulous Pictures at an Exhibition in the first set! Musicians for this performance will feature nearly all the founding members from the Detroit Symphony Orchestra with Associate Concertmaster Kimberly Kaloyanides Kennedy!
This program is FREE with museum admissions.

7-7:45 set
Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Mousorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition

8:30-9:15 set
Glinka Russlan and Ludmilla Overture
Gliere Russian Sailors Dance
Prokofiev March from Love for Three Oranges
Rachmaninoff Prelude in C#-minor
Prokofiev Sleighride from Lt. Kije
Strauss Radetzky March
Tchaikovsky Waltz of the Flowers

Sunday, December 16, 2012  7p-10

Classical Revolution Detroit - 2nd Anniversary
@ Majestic Cafe link
4120 Woodward Ave. Detroit, MI 48201
For our 2nd anniversary we return to this beautiful setting in Midtown with local players rotating in for impromptu musical fun, games, interviews and insights from Mr. CutTime. Attendance has shot up since Rick's good friend Donna Terek produced this very cool video and story about the series at the Detroit News.  Many more musicians are coming in too, enabling some readings of CutTime symphonic arrangements. Don't miss this one!

 

January 11-20, 2013
CutTime Director Rick Robinson will be in New York City attending (not exhibiting) at Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP), International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA)  and Chamber Music America (CMA) conferences. Please call 313-680-8104 or email for appointments.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  7p-10

Classical Revolution Grand Rapids - 
@ SpeakEZ Lounge link
600 Monroe Ave. NW at Trowbridge Grand Rapids, MI 49503
CRD goes to Grand Rapids at the request of a few Symphony musicians who enjoyed an impromptu event last July. Several chamber music standards and Mr. CutTime hits and symphonic covers will be featured.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013  8p-11

Classical Revolution Detroit - CRD = New Classical
@ Cadieux Cafe link
4300 Cadieux Rd. Detroit, MI 48224
Back home ahead of end of crowd-funding campaign to expand CRD, we'll prove that classical takes on new meaning and possibilities in clubs and bars. Consider also the surprise of curious listeners and participating musicians and come share the experience!

 

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  7:30p-9:05

CutTime Simfonica - The Power of Love  (link)
@ Fair Lane Manor - Henry Ford Estate 4901 Evergreen Rd. Dearborn, MI 48128
Valentine's Day will never be the same after a date with Mr. CutTime's powerful program featuring his hot and steamy Mighty Love story interspersed with other works of romantic insight. Grammy-winning conductor John McLaughlin Williams joins on lead violin complemented by Fort Wayne Philharmonic principal violist Derek Reeves! Also joining are James Greer on 2nd violin, Carl Larson on 2nd viola and Brandon Cota on cello.

 

Sunday, February 17, 2013  6p-8

Classical Revolution Detroit - Kuhnhenn Wine-tasting & Beer-thoven
@ Kuhnhenn Brewing Co. (link)
5919 Chicago (13.5 Mile Rd. at Mound Rd.) Warren, MI 48092
A special wine-tasting (tickets are sold out) ensues in one half of this popular bar while the regular Sunday crowd enjoys the REAL nectar of the gods! BOTH will enjoy appropriate music for drinking, tasting and dreaming with CutTime charts and standard hits!

 

Friday, March 1, 2013  8p-9:35

CutTime Simfonica's Chicago DEBUT  (link)
@ Elastic Arts - 2830 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd flr Chicago, IL 60618
Ahead of the debut performance in Battle Creek, Simfonica warms up in Chicago's Logan Square with Chicago musicians playing several upbeat symphonic and piano works (Enesco Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 & Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23, No. 5) plus a few of Mr. CutTime's top hits, inc. Pork 'n Beans and City of Trees (program). This concert is FREE to all and will add some percussion!

 

Sunday, March 3, 2013  4p-5:30

CutTime Simfonica in Battle Creek, MI  (link)
@ First Congregational Church of Battle Creek 145 Capital Ave., NE 49017
This rescheduled first performance of CutTime in Battle Creek features Simfonica with Chicago musicians playing several upbeat symphonic and piano works (Enesco Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 & Rachmaninoff Prelude Op. 23, No. 5) plus a few of Mr. CutTime's top hits, inc. Pork 'n Beans and City of Trees (program). This concert is FREE to all

 

March 10 & 11, 2013  8p & 7:30p

CutTime String Quartet Reading at Classical Revolution Cincinnati (link)
Sunday, March 10 @ Northside Tavern 4163 Hamilton Ave. Cinci, OH 45223
Monday, March 11 @ 1215 Wine Bar & Coffee Lab 1215 Vine St Cinci, OH 45202
Mr. CutTime returns to the home of the Reds to hit it INTO the park with local musicians playing a set from the CutTime String Quartet book... first on one side of town, then another! Talk about running the basses!

 

Sunday, March 24, 2013  7p-10

Classical Revolution Grand Rapids - 
@ SpeakEZ Lounge link
600 Monroe Ave. NW at Trowbridge Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Classical Revolution grows in Grand Rapids powered by an increasing number of Symphony musicians who enjoyed the event in January. LocalSpins took notice. Several chamber music standards and Mr. CutTime's funky-Romantic hits and symphonic covers will be featured along with interviews and deep insights.

 

Sunday, April 28, 2013  7p-10

Classical Revolution Detroit - Brass Blast
@ Majestic Cafe
4120 Woodward Ave Detroit, MI 48201
Classical Revolution returns to Midtown with special guests from the CR Baltimore chapter, Rafaela Dreisin on trumpet and Daniel Trahey on tuba. This promises to be a big deal with 10-20 local players rotating in. And as always, it's free admissions. 

 

Tuesday, May 7, 2013  8p-11

Classical Revolution Detroit - Rites of Spring
@ Cadieux Cafe link
4300 Cadieux Rd Detroit, MI 48224
Classical Revolution Detroit turns thoughts to spring and the two main uses for romantic music. 

Thursday, June 6, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
CutTime Simfonica - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
Kicking off a summer lunchtime series funded by Midtown Detroit every Thursday at noon (except July 4), CRD brings New Classical where many discover other great music. Bring a lunch, a few friends and an appetite for delicious and memorable music as this reading of CutTime Simfonica favorites launches a new chapter in CutTime history!

 

Sunday, June 9, 2013  2p-4

CutTime String Quartet - Chamber Jam
@ Redford Township Summer Festival
Bell Creek Park 15300 Inkster Rd Redford, MI 48239
CutTime String Quartet gets real in Redford with an outdoor program. 

 

Wednesday, June 12, 2013  7p-10

Classical Revolution Grand Rapids - Rite of Summer
@ SpeakEZ Lounge link
600 Monroe Ave. NW at Trowbridge Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Classical Revolution grows quickly in Grand Rapids powered by increasing demand by volunteering Grand Rapids Symphony musicians. Stay tuned for sudden growth!

 

Thursday, June 13, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
CutTime String Quartet - Classical Soul
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
Mr. CutTime explores the soulful side of classical and the classical side of soul for hungry new listeners. This will feature local wunderkind composer Jherrard Hardeman leading his latest hit Nothin' But Drama.

 

Friday, June 14, 2013  7p-9

CutTime String Quartet - 
@ Cranberry Lake Farm
388 West Predmore Rd  Oakland, MI 48363 (just north of Rochester) 
CutTime features Mystery Man and Velda Kelly on violins, Derek Reeves on viola with Rick on bass for the usual winning combination of past and future symphonic hits! 

 

Saturday, June 15, 2013  2p-3:15

CutTime String Quartet - Ellington Tribute
@ The Carr Center
311 E. Grand River. Detroit, MI 48226
CutTime is proud to join this sudden and noteworthy festival celebrating the life and work of the 20th-Century's finest composer with surprise adaptations of several assorted standards.

 

Thursday, June 20, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
CutTime Simfonica - Midday Rhapsodies
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
Mr. CutTime explores clues to meaning and adventure in instrumental music. Featured will be the gypsy fantasy Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by George Enescu.

 

Tuesday, June 25, 2013  8p-11

Classical Revolution Detroit - Summer Breezes
@Cadieux Cafe Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48224
Mr. CutTime explores clues to meaning and adventure in instrumental music. Featured will be the gypsy fantasy Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 by George Enescu.

 

Thursday, June 27, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
CutTime Players - Carmen Fantasy
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
It's time for the big guns as the mixed octet CutTime Players sounds so much like a full orchestra complete with brass and percussion. Featured will be the story and (wordless) music of George Bizet's opera Carmen.

 

Thursday, July 11, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
Mr. CutTime & Friends - Sonata vs. Concerto
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
Mr. CutTime invites two local virtuosi to demonstrate, reflect and perform first movements (chapters) of famous solo repertoire accompanied by CRD partner, pianist Doug Scott.
Soloists are TBA 

 

Thursday, July 18, 2013  noon-1

Classical Revolution Detroit Lunch Series
To Hit, a percussion ensemble - Round the World
@New Center Park  Link
2nd Ave. at W. Grand Blvd. Detroit, MI 48202
New to the Detroit area are two percussionists on marimba and handdrums who met at CMU and began exploring world music infused with classical styles. Mr. CutTime sits in as we learn the artistic side of hitting vibrating things with sticks and hands.

 

 

 

Mr. CutTime writes...

This is a really exciting time for CutTime and its supporters, discovering as we are so many opportunities to welcome a whole different audience to classical. With such experiences as I've had in the Detroit Symphony, and such potential I envision going beyond, life truly seems short. Music is love and I want to share mine with the wider world!

So feed heartily on the streaming audio while you read about the mission, ensembles and publishing. Classical Revolution balances art music in popular culture of curious music lovers. Download MP3s of live CutTime performances or purchase tracks at iTunes. Check out adventurous programs from earlier seasons, read the first review of my comps, listen to my 2011 NPR interview with Guy Raz.

With your local musicians, CutTime shows everyone why 200 year old still matters... in your church, temple, school, favorite restaurant, coffeehouse, bar, club, even your LIVING ROOM!  Just contact me with names of concert presenters near you and tell presenters, coworkers, friends and family that you want CutTime in your community to connect casually with classical music!

Thank you!
- Rick Robinson