Interior of Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music.
“Three schools of music in Cleveland [are] adapting to life in the coronavirus era,” writes Zachary Lewis in Sunday’s (8/2) Plain Dealer (Cleveland). “For the roughly 280 music students at Cleveland State University School of Music … the plan is to allow in-person instruction, with precautions, at the discretion of individual students and faculty members…. Certain courses … may take place partially in-person, in classrooms and other spaces newly dedicated for private instruction or smaller ensembles…. School starts early at the Cleveland Institute of Music ahead of an early departure at Thanksgiving…. In-person lessons will take place … with both parties wearing masks on opposite sides of portable clear walls…. Four pairs of rooms have been outfitted with screens, cameras, speakers, and other audio equipment, allowing a vocalist or woodwind player to perform in real time with another artist next door.… At the Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory of Music … as at CIM, students will complete the semester remotely after Thanksgiving. Many classes, too, will take place partially or entirely online…. Rooms have been designated for use by specific instruments or vocalists, and larger classrooms have been reconfigured for lessons and small ensembles, with sufficient time for air circulation between uses.”
