by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
At 2 pm, Ohio Light Opera presents a matinee performance of Frank Loesser’s Guys and Dolls in Freedlander Theatre at the College of Wooster.
And at 6:30, the Canton Symphony’s Summer Serenades present an outdoor performance by a string quartet at Lawrence Township Park in North Lawrence.
For details of upcoming concerts, visit our Concert Listings page.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Friends of the McGaffin Carillon in University Circle write, “There are only a few more weeks to hear The McGaffin Carillon (pictured) before it is disassembled in mid-August in preparation for a complete restoration and renovation. The carillon will be silent until next spring when four new bells will be added to the instrument. Stay tuned for the exciting details.”
UPCOMING CARILLON CONCERTS
Friday, July 5, 12:15pm Sheryl Modlin (Click here for Program)
Friday, July 12, 12:15 pm and 7 pm Carol Jickling Lens, Denver, CO (Program)
Friday, July 19, 12:15 pm and 7 pm Keiran Cantilina, Cleveland, OH (Program)
Friday, July 26, 12:15 pm and 7 pm David Hunsberger, Oakland, CA (Program)
Meet the artists at 6:15 pm or at a post-concert reception.
The Music Settlement has announced that its summer offerings will include
- an Old-Time Fiddle Boot Camp with Paul Kirk (Tuesday, July 9 through Thursday, July 11, 10 am to 3 pm)
- Music Film Series led by Kelli Minell, for adult students ages 18+ (Thursdays 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm: July 11 (The Concert Film), July 25 (Music Behind the Scenes), August 8 (The Musical Biopic) & August 22 (Parody & Pastiche)
- The Settlement Singers – 6-day Summer Session for adults, Wednesday, July 17 through Friday, July 26, 9 am to 12 Noon.
View the Settlement’s monthly calendar here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1914, conductor Frederick Fennell was born in Cleveland (he died in 2004 in Florida). He played timpani in the John Adams High School band before going on to study at Interlochen, then at the Eastman School of Music, where he founded the Eastman Symphonic Wind Ensemble and launched a long career reinventing and directing wind bands. Fennell also studied conducting with Serge Koussevitzky at Tanglewood (with classmates Leonard Bernstein and Lukas Foss), and served on the conducting staffs of the Minnesota Orchestra, the University of Miami and the Miami Philharmonic, the Interlochen Arts Academy, and the Dallas Wind Symphony.
One of America’s most-recorded conductors, Fennell’s credits include 29 recordings on the Mercury label. He also made history for his collaboration with Jack Renner and Robert Woods, founders of Cleveland’s Telarc Records, who made the first-ever symphonic digital recording with Fennell conducting the Cleveland Symphonic Winds — including the wind, brass, and percussion sections of The Cleveland Orchestra — in Severance Hall in April, 1978. The recording of Gustav Holst’s Suites for Military Band similarly made history in 1983 when it became part of one of the first recordings to be released in the new compact disc format.
Read the history of making that recording in an article on Engineering and Technology Wiki, and listen to those performances of Holst’s Suite No. 1 in E-flat and Suite No. 2 in F here and here (where you can follow along with the reduced conductor’s score). And watch Frederick Fennell in action rehearsing the Indiana State University Wind Ensemble in 1997.
