12 Facts About Cleveland Johnson

Cleveland Thomas Johnson was born on November 3,1955 and is an American academic, administrator, music historian, and early-music performer.

Cleveland Johnson continued to leverage early digital technology for his research, such as an article on a rare, keyboard diminution manual of his discovery.

Cleveland Johnson realized and tapped the potential of the early internet to publish a manuscript study—impossible to present in printed-journal format—that, using color-coded image overlays, revealed how multiple layers of music notation accreted over time in a manuscript from Samuel Scheidt or his circle of students.

Cleveland Johnson was an early adopter of web-based technology in the university classroom.

Cleveland Johnson remained active as a performer, in addition to his teaching and research, until 2006.

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Cleveland Johnson concluded his church-music career as a professional alto in the Men and Boys Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, one of the last such choirs in the United States preserving the Anglican cathedral choral tradition.

In 1999, the Indiana Network for the Development of India Awareness funded Cleveland Johnson to take a five-week study trip to South India, where he first encountered Carnatic music.

In 2008, having served as Dean of the School of Music at DePauw since 2006—during which time he oversaw the move of the School of Music into the new Joyce and Judson Green Performing Arts Center—Johnson took a leave of absence to become executive director of the Thomas J Watson Fellowship Johnson was the last in a series of sixteen alumni directors, each of whom served two- or three-year terms, administering the same organization that had funded them, post-baccalaureate, early in their careers.

Cleveland Johnson was executive director during the Great Recession in the United States, and oversaw a needed reduction in the number of Watson-affiliated colleges and universities.

Cleveland Johnson, following the NMM's founding director, Andre Larson, of almost forty years, was tasked with building the high-functioning organization and facilities that the NMM's collection required.

Cleveland Johnson shifted focus, from the aggressive collecting of his predecessor, to institution building.

Cleveland Johnson led the institution, home to the Murtogh D Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata, to adopt a new mission that explores intersections of "art, sound, and motion, " leveraging that collection of historical technology to examine contemporary topics such as robotics, music-on-demand, binary coding, artificial intelligence, and video gaming.