by Daniel Hathaway
NEWS BRIEFS:
Dramatic tenor Limmie Pulliam, a 1998 graduate of Oberlin Conservatory who gave life to a host of leading opera roles and as a classical soloist on prominent stages across America and around the globe — and whose unlikely rise to fame after years away from music buoyed the dreams of performers everywhere — has died. He was 50. Read the Oberlin Conservatory story here.
HAPPENING TODAY:
As the central event in its Opera and Humanities Festival, The Cleveland Orchestra presents the second of three performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio, Franz Welser-Möst, conducting, with Sara Jakubiak & Ashley Emerson, sopranos, David Butt Philip & Owen McCausland, tenors, Tomasz Konieczny & Dashon Burton, bass-baritones, Martin Summer, bass, and The Cleveland Orchestra Chorus (7 pm in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center).
HONORED:
On May 20, No Exit New Music reported that composer Andrew Rindfleisch has been named First Runner-up for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize in Music for American Descent, a work commissioned by No Exit as its Fall 2025 centerpiece. Read the story here and click here to watch a video of the performance.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Today we’ll raise a virtual glass to celebrate two European soloists born on the 21st of May: French trumpeter Maurice André who greeted the world in 1933 in Alès in the Cévennes, and Swiss oboist Heinz Holliger, who followed him six years later in Langenthal. [Read More…]
