Archives for July 2022

DIARY: Tuesday, July 5, 2022

July 5, 2022 by Jarrett Hoffman

by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Ohio Light Opera’s Cinderella

•This summer with Opus 216

•The passing of musicologist Richard Taruskin

•Oberlin music theory professor Brian Alegant on the Bulletproof Musician podcast

•Dorothy Rudd Moore’s setting of the famous Frederick Douglass speech What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?

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DIARY: Weekend of July 1-4, 2022

July 1, 2022 by Daniel Hathaway

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. June festivals wind up, July concerts blast off at Blossom

. News Briefs: CityMusic to go conductorless

. Interesting read: Culture Track survey dismantles some stereotypes about older Americans and the arts

. Almanac: The storks were busy this weekend. Celebrating the debuts of William Herbert Brewster, Carl Weinrich, Frederick Fennell, and Leoš Janáček

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

ChamberFest Cleveland ends the third week of its tenth season with performances of Debussy & Thorvaldsdottir on Friday at The Madison (note the correct start time is 7:30 pm and read a preview article here), Berio & Brahms on Saturday at 7:30 at the Maltz PAC (6:30 prelude concert by violinist Stephen Waarts), and on Sunday at 6:30 at The Grove Amphitheater (featuring soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, violinist Stephen Waarts, and harpist Sivan Magen). [Read more…]

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No Exit and Zeitgeist: An Evocation of Our Current Time (Jan. 9)

by Mike Telin

On Saturday, January 9 at SPACES, Cleveland-based No Exit and St. Paul-based Zeitgeist continued their long-standing collaboration with An Evocation of Our Current Time.

Unlike most performances where the audience is aware of what they will be experiencing, this one gave you very little information in advance other than it was to be “a 55-minute multimedia experience that draws on improvisation, film, artificial intelligence, environmental manipulation, lies, magic, gaslighting and other forms of chicanery.”

Unlike most No Exit concerts there were no elaborate programs to follow. And instead of presenting a number of works by a variety of composers, An Evocation of Our Current Time was a single work by No Exit artistic director Timothy Beyer with technical assistance by James Praznik. As the capacity audience took their seats in the long gallery they were face to face with a dozen musicians, a projector, and a white wall.
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Trio Seoul: warmth and thoughtfulness at the Cleveland Museum of Art (Jan. 14)

by Stephanie Manning

Despite the frigid Wednesday weather dumping snow outside the Cleveland Museum of Art, January 14 almost felt like a pleasant spring day inside Gartner Auditorium. That phenomenon had nothing to do with temperature and everything to do with Trio Seoul, whose warm camaraderie and excellent musicianship brightened the venue considerably.

Pianist Kyu Yeon Kim, cellist Brannon Cho, and violinist Jinjoo Cho — whose ENCORE Chamber Music Institute co-presented the event — started things off with their sunniest piece, Joseph Haydn’s Piano Trio No. 39 in G. The musicians kept the affect light and flowing, centered on the tasteful piano lines from Kim.

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Verdi’s Requiem, Welser-Möst, Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus find sacred balance, stamina (Jan. 15)

by Kevin McLaughlin

Photo by Yehven Gulenko

This article was originally published on Cleveland.com

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Verdi’s Requiem surprised in its beauty on Thursday evening Jan. 15 at Severance Music Center in a performance by Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus.

Welser-Möst understands that the Requiem lives on a fault line between opera house and church, but, as he explains in the program, a performance ought never lose sight of Verdi’s reverence for the mass text. On Thursday the balance felt wisely judged. The “Dies irae” was terrifying precisely because it was controlled. The choir’s entrance struck with sudden force.

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