by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7:30 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance, Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali (pictured), and cellist Sol Gabetta will join The Cleveland Orchestra in Dmitri Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 2 and Franz Schubert’s Symphony No. 9.
At the same hour at The Bath Church in Akron, Apollo’s Fire will field an ensemble of 26 artists from Jewish, Palestinian, Muslim, and Christian traditions to present the first performance of an updated version of its program O Jerusalem! Crossroads of Three Faiths.
And in Oberlin’s Finney Chapel tonight at 7:30, Raphael Jiménez will lead the Oberlin Orchestra with violist William Mathangani in Béla Bartók’s Viola Concerto and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10.
For details of these and other classical events, visit the ClevelandClassical.com Concert Listings.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Three memorable dates in Black American classical music history appear on today’s calendar: the birth of composer Florence Beatrice Price in 1887, the birth of bass and actor Paul Robeson in 1898, and Marian Anderson’s 1939 concert at the Lincoln Memorial, sponsored by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, that drew a crowd of 75,000. [Read More…]
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