Promising Transitions Gabriel Pollack wants to make the Cleveland Museum of Art a musical magnet By Carlo Wolff
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he former manager and director of the Bop Stop since 2014, Gabriel Pollack hopes his experience helps make the Cleveland Museum of Art as top of mind for lovers of musical diversity as it is for lovers of the fine arts. Imagine jazz concerts in museum galleries. Visualize lunching at the museum’s Provenance restaurant while a modern classical group performs. These are among the ideas Pollack is considering as he transitions from running a
pristine listening room best known for jazz to director of performing arts at CMA, a role he assumed Oct. 17. “I want someone looking for music in Cleveland to start considering the museum’s calendar,” Pollack says in an interview at the Bop Stop at The Music Settlement, the nationally recognized, 100-seat nonprofit venue in the Hingetown district of Ohio City that he ran for nearly eight years. For now, Pollack is charged with overseeing performing arts at the museum and its branches,
Pollack Photo / Sharon Hughes
A City Stages world music performance in 2018, put on by the Cleveland Museum of Art. Photo / Scott Shaw Photography
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