by Daniel Hathaway
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Akron’s Tuesday Musical has announced the 26 winners of its 2026 Scholarship Competition. “Nearly 130 applicants from 15 schools applied to compete this year for 30 scholarships ranging from $750 to $2,000 each and totaling a record-breaking $43,050.” Click here to read the article.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Three very different organist-composers to honor today: German Kappelmeister Johann Gottfried Walther who died in Weimar on this date in 1748, German Romantic composer Julius Reubke, born on March 23, 1834 in Hausneindorf, and French organist and composer Eugène Gigout, born ten years later in Nancy. [Read More…]
On Sunday, March 22 at 3:00 pm at the Cleveland Institute of Music, the Chicago-based Third Coast Percussion — Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore — will present “Time Pieces: The New Classical.” The program celebrates two decades of genre-defying, award-winning music, including many of the ensemble’s 20th anniversary commissions. The concert is sold out.
When Allison Hillier was starting her graduate studies at the Cleveland Institute of Music, she needed to find a place that was within walking distance of the school. While apartment hunting in nearby neighborhoods, Hillier found herself walking through Little Italy. “I heard opera coming from restaurants, and I thought this is a really vibrant community. There’s a lot going on,” she recalled during a recent Zoom conversation.