Early Music America has announced that Ross Duffin and Beverly Simmons are the recipients of the 2018 Howard Mayer Brown Award for lifetime achievement in the field of early music. [Read more…]
Archives for March 2018
Bambergers to relocate
David and Carolla Bamberger, who led Cleveland Opera from 1976 to 2004, have announced their plans to move to California at the end of the season. [Read more…]
Cleveland Orchestra Announces Season 101
The Cleveland Orchestra’s 2018-2019 season at Severance Hall will include the Orchestra’s first performances of Richard Strauss’ opera Ariadne Auf Naxos in a made-for-Cleveland production led by music director Franz Welser-Möst. [Read more…]
Robert Schneider Memorial Service
A memorial service honoring the life and career of Robert Schneider will be held at First Baptist Church in Shaker Heights on Saturday, April 4 at 1:30 pm. [Read more…]
Cleveland Orchestra Announces Chorus Auditions
There are opportunities for singers of all ages to perform at Severance Hall and Blossom next season. Adult chorus auditions for the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and Blossom Festival Chorus will be held in May. [Read more…]
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Festival seeks home hosts
CUSP is in need of hosts to offer homestays to out-of-town erformers during its inaugural festival from June 6-11. [Read more…]
CityMusic Cleveland with accordionist/composer Merima Ključo at St. Stanislas (March 17)
by Daniel Hathaway
Bosnian composer and accordionist Merima Kljuo gave the Cleveland premiere of her work The Sarajevo Haggadah: Music of the Book at the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015 in a version for accordion and piano. Last week she returned to Cleveland with her new, vibrant orchestration of the piece, which celebrates the miraculous journey of an elegant medieval Jewish prayer book from Spain to Bosnia. [Read more…]
Barnby roars past Monteverdi in March Madrigal Madness upset (Mar. 18)
by Daniel Hathaway
In a clever concert in the Recital Hall of the Cleveland Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon, March 18, nineteen members of Scott MacPherson’s Cleveland Chamber Choir pitted sixteen madrigals against each other as though they were competing basketball teams in the March Madness bracket, inviting the audience to vote by “applauseometer” on their favorites, and ultimately declaring a champion. [Read more…]
Arts Renaissance Tremont: Mark Kosower plays Bach
by Timothy Robson
In honor of the Baroque master’s 333rd birthday on the 21st of the month, Cleveland Orchestra principal cello Mark Kosower played an all-Bach recital on Sunday, March 18 on the Arts Renaissance Tremont Series at Pilgrim Congregational Church. It was a splendid and generous concert, musically, spiritually, and temporally — and at over two and a quarter hours, there were a lot of notes! [Read more…]
Tri-C Classical Piano Series: Lise de la Salle at CMA (March 18)
by Nicholas Stevens
Active on the international piano scene for around a decade, Lise de la Salle continues to rise. In a recital for the Tri-C Classical Piano Series this week, she explored one of the fundamental elements of the human condition, often invoked yet seldom considered in depth: love. At the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Gartner Auditorium on March 18, though de la Salle often explained to the audience the reasoning behind her programming choices, these commentaries proved less powerful than the combination of her musical and gestural sensibilities. [Read more…]