by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12 noon, organist Jonathan Bolena will play settings of chorales by J.S. Bach & Georg Böhm & Bach’s Trio Sonata No. 3 on the Tuesday Noon Series at the Church of the Covenant in University Circle, and Piano Cleveland Live will present Ran Dank & Soyeon Kate Lee in the Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Today at 5:30, the Fairmount Presbyterian Church Rush Hour Concert Series hosts pianist Jack Naglick in works by Enrique Granados’ Goyescas, Franz Liszt, and César Franck.
And at 7:30, Tuesday Musical presents soprano Renée Fleming in “Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene,” including Romantic-era art songs by Edvard Grieg, Franz Liszt, Gabriel Fauré, and Reynoldo Hahn, as well as new commissions from Nico Muhly, Caroline Shaw, and Kevin Puts.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On April 21, 1749, a public rehearsal of George Frideric Handel’s Royal Fireworks Music took place — against the composer’s wishes — at London’s Vauxhall Gardens. An impressive crowd of 12,000 turned out, causing traffic jams for three hours on London Bridge.
The eventual premiere performance on April 27 in Green Park was something of a disaster, to say the least — one of the pavilions caught fire, rockets went astray, and other effects fizzled due to rain.
Click here to listen to a not-historically-informed performance by the London Symphony led by Cleveland’s own George Szell — he also omits the 101 cannons called for at the work’s premiere.
