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Dennis Eberhard
By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic
To musicians, Dennis Eberhard was Cleveland’s composer laureate. To Russian concertgoers, he was an extraordinary artist whose music communicated profound compassion.
To his younger brother, Bruce, he was a hero who faced physical disability and financial hardship with tremendous courage. To kids in the Collinwood neighborhood where he grew up, he was “Sticks,” a little guy with a big smile who walked with crutches...
Film shines light on journey of disabled Cleveland composer
By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic
Two tragedies inspired Cleveland composer Dennis Eberhard while he was writing the piano concerto he would call "Shadow of the Swan." One was the deaths of Russian sailors in the submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea in 2000; the other was the 1986 disaster of the space shuttle Challenger, its white smoke famously and horrifically evoking the image of an enormous swan...
By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic
The sinking of the Russian submarine Kursk in the Barents Sea in August 2000 jolted Cleveland composer Dennis Eberhard. Already at work on a piano concerto for Russian-born Cleveland pianist Halida Dinova, he decided to pay tribute to the deceased sailors in an expansive work eventually titled "Shadow of the Swan"...
By Donald Rosenberg
Plain Dealer Music Critic
Every piece of music is a journey of some kind.
Dennis Eberhard's "Shadow of the Swan" travels well beyond mere tonal regions to pay tribute to real-life expeditions that ended in tragedy. The Cleveland composer created his three-movement work for piano and orchestra in response to the 1986 Challenger space-shuttle disaster and the 2000 Kursk catastrophe...