by Daniel Hathaway
WEEKEND HIGHLIGHTS:
On Friday at 7:30, Robert Walters steps out in front of The Cleveland Orchestra to play the U.S. premiere of Geoffrey Gordon’s Mad Song for English horn and orchestra. (Read our preview interview here.) Also on the program: Gustav Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. Tugan Sokhiev conducts at Severance Music Center. Repeated Saturday at 7:30. Tickets available online.
Also on Friday, Cleveland State University presents Boulez 100: Celebrating the Pierre Boulez Centenary, with Andrew Rindfleisch, director, Shuai Wang, piano, and the Boulez 100 Ensemble. Pierre Boulez’s Incises for solo piano, Dérive 1 for six players, and Dérive 2 for eleven players. 7:30 in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tickets available online.
On Saturday, Cleveland Classical Guitar Society hosts Duo Noire, Thomas Flippin and Christopher Mallett, guitars, in world premieres of works by Bryan Senti, Casimir Liberski, and Layale Chaker, plus arrangements of music by J.S. Bach, Nathaniel Dett, and more. 7:30 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center. Tickets available online.
And on Sunday, the Tri-C Classical Piano Series presents Elliot Wuu (pictured), performing Claude Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 31 No. 3, “The Hunt,” and Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Daisies, Op. 38 No. 3, Preludes Op. 23 No. 4 & 8, and Sonata No. 2. 2:30 at the Tri-C Metropolitan Campus Auditorium. Free, but tickets required — register online.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
WEEKEND ALMANAC:
Paul Hindemith — that celebrated composer of the first half of the 20th century who was also a violist, conductor, and important music theorist and compositional pedagogue — was born on this November 14, 1895 in Hanau, Germany. [Read More…]
These days, the Danish String Quartet keep their touring schedule simple. Arrive in a new city in the morning, play a concert in the evening, and repeat. That’s not because the group doesn’t like exploring new places — it’s because they’ve got little ones waiting at home.