by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 12:00 Noon Piano Cleveland presents Daniela Liebman in the Ames Family Atrium at the Cleveland Museum of Art, and at the same hour, Tuesdays at the Church of the Covenant hosts organist Mikhail Grazhdanov.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Today we celebrate the births of two British musical luminaries who made their debuts on May 13.
In 1842 composer Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan came into the world in London. Sullivan exhibited his musical prowess early on — at the age of eight he composed his first anthem and soon after became a soloist in the boys’ choir of the Chapel Royal. At age 14 the Royal Academy of Music awarded Sullivan the first Mendelssohn Scholarship, allowing him to pursue his musical studies at the Academy as well as at the Leipzig Conservatory. [Read More…]
Since 1983, the 
Since joining the Oberlin Conservatory voice faculty in 2019, soprano Katherine Jolly has kept up with her performing career. But doing so usually takes her outside of Northeast Ohio.
“I’ve been compelled by mid-century American modern music for some time,” pianist Geoffrey Burleson said during a Zoom conversation. “I’ve recorded all of Roy Harris’ piano music and Vincent Persichetti’s twelve piano sonatas. I recently played some of Irving Fine’s music at Mills College under the auspices of Other Minds. I’m always saddened when people dismiss the mid-century neoclassic style. I just love it, and I’m doing all that I can to revive it.”
