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Archives for November 2022

DIARY: Tuesday, November 15, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Tonight: ACRONYM at Oberlin, Jupiter Quartet at CCMS

•Oberlin announces vacancy in the composition department

•Almanac: Barenboim enters, Reiner leaves

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 7:30 pm, you have the choice between two premiere string ensembles with roots in Northeast Ohio, performing on two of the area’s premiere concert series.

Over at Plymouth Church under the banner of the Cleveland Chamber Music Society, the Jupiter Quartet will play music by Charles Ives, Florence Price, Steven Andrew Taylor, George Walker, and Johannes Brahms. (ClevelandClassical.com’s Daniel Hathaway will give a 6:30 pre-concert lecture.) 

And at Warner Concert Hall, the Oberlin Artist Recital Series will present the Baroque string band ACRONYM in a program titled “Dreams of the Wounded Musketeer” exploring “a military trumpeter’s final moments as he relives the swirling music of his childhood.”

Read an article by Daniel Hathaway previewing both concerts here. Get tickets here for CCMS and here for Oberlin.

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DIARY: Monday, November 14, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. New Les Délices SalonEra release zeroes in on Classical Era wind music, Charnofsky has his ear on lesser-known Copland works plus Tower, Mumford, Arensky & Piazzola, Rocky River Chamber Society hosts performances arrangements by Chris van Hof

Memoirs of August Wenziger, Catharina Meints Caldwell, and an early take on Telemann

. Symphony Of Sirens: The Mammoth, Raucous 1922 Concert ‘That Would Have Made The Italian Futurists Weep’

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Today, Les Délices releases SalonEra 3.2: Harmonie, an episode that puts special focus on woodwinds in the Classical era. Available online and as a podcast and stream free from their premiere date thru June 30, 2023. Click here to watch.

At 2:00 pm Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, hosted by Eric Charnofsky, celebrates the birth anniversary of Aaron Copland with two of his lesser-known works: Dance Panels for orchestra and Two Pieces for string quartet. Also on the program:  Joan Tower’s Breakfast Rhythms, Jeffrey Mumford’s a landscape of interior resonances Anton Arensky’s Piano Quintet, and Astor Piazzolla’s Coral (flute and piano). Listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

7:30 pm – Rocky River Chamber Music Society presents the Emerald Brass Quintet, Brett Long & Max Matsen, trumpets, Leslie Hart, horn, Chris Van Hof, trombone & T.J.. Ricer, tuba. Arrangements by Chris Van Hof of Gabriel Fauré’s Dolly Suite, Isaac Albéniz’s Suite Española Op. 47, Igor Stravinsky’s Selections from Pulcinella, Maurice Ravel’s Selections from Le Tombeau de Couperin, Astor Piazolla’s Libertango & Meditango & Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2. West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River. Freewill offering. Click here for live stream.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

On November 14, 1905, violist da gamba and conductor August Wenziger was born in Switzerland. As one of the first specialists on the gamba, he taught at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, and was tapped to lead the new Oberlin Baroque Performance Institute for its first eighteen summer seasons.

BPI co-founder Catharina Meints Caldwell recalls those 18 years in detail in her memoir, subtitled The Wenzinger Years.

Click here to listen to an early recording of Telemann’s Wassermusik on the Deutsche Grammophon Archiv label, at a time when the secrets of the Baroque oboe were still being discovered.

INTERESTING READ:

Arseny Avraamov’s “Symphony Of Sirens,” written and performed in Baku, Soviet Azerbaijan for the fifth anniversary of the October Revolution, “included the entire Caspian flotilla, cannons, locomotives, artillery regiments, hydroplanes, factory sirens, bells, foghorns, brass bands and a massive choir. Avraamov wasn’t just conducting an orchestra, he was conducting a city.” Read Symphony Of Sirens: The Mammoth, Raucous 1922 Concert That Would Have Made The Italian Futurists Weep in the BBC Magazine.]

DIARY: Weekend, November 11-13, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Final performances of operas

. Other concerts of note

. Remembering the end of the “Great War”

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:

This weekend  sees the final performances of three shows: Apollo’s Fire’s Storms and Tempests, Oberlin Opera Theater’s Offenbach and Rossini double bill, and CIM Opera Theater’s Cendrillon, and the only performance of Opera Western Reserve’s La Bohème. [Read more…]

N.E. Ohio-born Jupiter Quartet & ACRONYM return to CCMS & Oberlin Series November 15

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by Daniel Hathaway

The Intergalactic Scheduling Office that normally takes care of bringing planets and other heavenly bodies into conjunction without causing head-on collisions has messed up big time.

On Tuesday, November 15 at 7:30  pm, the Jupiter Quartet, formed in Northeast Ohio, will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a return to the Cleveland Chamber Music Society series at Plymouth Church where it last appeared in 2015. On the same date at the same hour, the Oberlin Artist Recital Series will bring ACRONYM, the Baroque string band formed by Oberlin Conservatory alumni, back to campus for the first time since its founding a decade ago in 2012.

What is a conflicted audience member to do? In order to encourage a bit more scientific solution than flipping a coin, ClevelandClassical.com has spoken with Jupiter Quartet cellist Daniel McDonough and ACRONYM cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman, both founding members of their ensembles, to find out what’s in store at Plymouth Church and Warner Concert Hall on Tuesday.

I caught up with Daniel McDonough in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, who was walking his sons to a park where his 5-year-old would meet up with a friend and Daniel and his older son were going to kick a soccer ball around in celebration of the great fall weather. [Read more…]

The Cleveland Orchestra: Dvořák, Schumann, Benjamin (Oct. 27)

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by Peter Feher

From his first moments on the podium, Edward Gardner seemed entirely at home in Severance Music Center. The English conductor made his debut with The Cleveland Orchestra the other Thursday, but you wouldn’t have known it from his ease with the ensemble and the general calm of the program.

Not that the performance on October 27 lacked drama. In fact, the evening’s repertoire had plenty of fervor, from the turbulence of Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7, to the passion of Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto, to a contemporary work literally inspired by a storm.

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DIARY: Thursday, November 10, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Tonight: Apollo’s Fire conjures up a storm in Akron, singer-songwriter Candace Campana visits the Canton Symphony, and Oberlin Opera Theater presents a pair of one-acts

•Interesting read: learn about the documentary film scores of Case student Rafique Illyas-Watson (pictured)

•Almanac: from France to Mexico, François Couperin to Salvador Contreras

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DIARY: Wednesday, November 9, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

.  Selected Blossom concerts from The Cleveland Orchestra and the Ohio Light Opera schedule for summer 2023

. Lesser known sibling composers

TODAY’S EVENTS:

While there isn’t a lot on the calendar today, there’s more than enough to satisfy your classical music palate beginning tomorrow and through the weekend. Check out our Concert Listings page here.

IN THE NEWS:

The Cleveland Orchestra announces select performances for the 2023 Blossom Music Festival. Highlights include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, Jurassic Park, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and Disney’s The Sound of Magic. Featured soloists include pianists Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Michael Feinstein and vocalists Audra McDonald and Capathia Jenkins. Click here for more information.

And Ohio Light Opera has released its calendar of performances for summer 2023 at the College of Wooster. Have a look here and plan your visits, but note that tickets don’t go on sale until January 11. [Read more…]

Daniel Emmet sparkles in the
spotlight at Cleveland Pops (Nov. 5)

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by Stephanie Manning

Given the venues that Daniel Emmet is used to performing in, Severance Music Center must have felt like quite the culture shock. The classical crossover vocalist, a 2018 finalist on America’s Got Talent, has entertained crowds at places like Caesars Palace, Staples Center, and Angels Stadium. But that didn’t mean that Emmet was any less excited for his appearance on November 5 — quite the contrary.

“Hello, Cleveland!” he announced with a wide grin. “I’ve been waiting many years to say that.” Together with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the operatically-trained tenor delivered a memorable, genre-crossing evening of music.

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CIM Opera Theater:
Cendrillon with Cara Consilvio

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by Mike Telin 

For centuries the tale of Cinderella has been told and retold around the world. This week the magical fairytale will be brought to life when CIM Opera Theater presents Jules Massenet’s charming Cendrillon on Friday, November 11 at 7:30 pm and Sunday afternoon at 3:00 pm in Kulas Hall. Cara Consilvio is the guest director and Harry Davidson conducts the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra. Click here to read a synopsis and to purchase tickets.

Cara Consilvio leads a multifaceted career as a director and producer of opera, theater, and film as well as dance and choreography. She has produced and directed numerous tribute videos, promotional videos, and behind the scenes mini-docs for the NEA Opera Honors, the NEA Jazz Masters videos, OPERA America, and the American Composers Orchestra.

I caught up with the director by phone and began our conversation by asking her about the opera.

Cara Consilvio: This is my first Cendrillon and it’s always exciting to direct a piece for the first time. It’s a new world that will unfold as you begin researching, but you don’t really understand how the piece works until you’re in the rehearsal room putting it up on its feet.

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Oberlin Opera Theater:
a double bill of Offenbach & Rossini 

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by Mike Telin 

If you’re looking for some extra laughter in your life, Oberlin Opera Theater has the perfect ticket when they present the Oberlin premieres of a pair of one-act comedies. 

Romance and deception will take center stage in Offenbach’s Le mariage aux lanternes (“The Wedding by Lantern Light”) and Rossini’s L’occasione fa il ladro (“Opportunity Makes the Thief”), both sung in the original languages with English supertitles. Jonathon Field directs and Joseph Mechavich conducts the Oberlin Orchestra. Performances take place on November 10, 11, and 12 at 8:00 pm and November 13 at 2:00 pm at Hall Auditorium. Click here for tickets.

Simply put, the Offenbach is a love story with songs that everyone will enjoy, and the Rossini is a comedic farce during which identities and affections are swapped between two pairs of would-be lovers. 

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