by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7 pm, No Exit New Music presents Cleveland Renaissance: Art of the Cleveland School at Praxis Fiber Workshop, and at 7:30 pm, guest conductor Elim Chan (pictured) begins her two weekends with The Cleveland Orchestra leading Igor Stravinsky’s Suite from Pulcinella, Joseph Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with Michael Sachs, and Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Both concerts are repeated through Sunday.
For details of these and other performances, please visit our Concert Listings page.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On March 12, 1837, French organist and composer Alexandre Guilmant was born in Meudon. Titulaire of La Trinité for 30 years (Messiaen held the post even longer beginning in 1931), Guilmant founded Paris’s Schola Cantorum, taught Marcel Dupré at the Paris Conservatory, and left a large legacy of works for the organ — his sole compositional interest. [Read More…]
In the medieval era, musicians and poets had a different perspective on the process of creation. “They thought of composing as finding and seeking out words and notes that already exist,” Allison Monroe said in a recent phone interview. That’s why the artistic director named her ensemble Trobár — an Occitan-language word meaning “to find” or “to seek.”
