by Daniel Hathaway
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. Weekend performances: a Slovenian chamber choir, Scottish traditional music, four local orchestras, and the Oberlin Piano Trio (in Akron)
. Almanac: anniversary tributes to flutist Julius Baker, composers Václav Nelhýbel, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Rutter, and a profile of French-Greek composer Iannis Xenakis
WEEKEND EVENTS:
Pace yourselves — you won’t make it to all of these performances, but they’re all interesting!
On Friday at 7:30 pm Damijan Močnik, will lead the Megaron Chamber Choir (St. Stanislav´s Institution, Slovenia) in unaccompanied choral works by Gallus, Sarti, Rheinberger, Tchaikovsky, Arnesen, Močnik, and Slovenian Romantic composers. Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, E. 9 & Superior, Cleveland. Freewill offering. [Read more…]
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It’s no secret that many young people have had their professional careers sidelined because of the pandemic. Take, for example, the Balourdet String Quartet, which was formed as a student ensemble at Rice University in 2018.
There is no one path that a person follows to become a conductor. Raffaele Ponti’s early musical training came via the piano, violin, and later trumpet. That instrument led Ponti to the Cleveland Institute of Music where he was a student of Bernard Adelstein, the legendary principal of The Cleveland Orchestra — Ponti was also fortunate enough to play with that orchestra on numerous occasions. After graduating from CIM, he went to Italy to study conducting first in Siena, and later in Rome with Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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After more than a decade spent together as an ensemble, Wu Han, Philip Setzer, and David Finckel have become very familiar with certain pieces. And they’re determined to make sure those works only get better with age. On September 13, the pianist, violinist, and cellist opened the 73rd season of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society with a staple in their repertory — Franz Schubert’s two piano trios.
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