by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7, the West Shore Chorale will hold its 2024 Summer Sing at Rocky River Memorial Hall. All are welcome to sing through Beethoven’s Mass in C with Chorale members. Scores will be provided.
IN THE NEWS:
On Monday afternoon, Cleveland.com reported that after 30 years on the job, “Victoria Bussert (pictured), the program director at Baldwin Wallace’s acclaimed Music Theatre program, is leaving the university at the end of the 2024-25 academic year to head up Oberlin College’s new Music Theater program, officials at both institutions announced on Monday.”
Susan Van Vorst, Dean of the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, told cleveland.com “she was shocked when informed of Bussert’s decision…Bussert’s departure begins a period of transition for the Baldwin Wallace program as music director Matthew Webb and acting/directing professor Laura Welsh Berg are headed to Oberlin, too.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Single tickets are now on sale for all series in the Canton Symphony’s new season. Click here for details.
The Cleveland Orchestra writes, “Debuting on Tuesday, August 20, at 7 PM is Painting a Picture, a new digital concert from Adella featuring a performance by The Cleveland Orchestra and additional interviews.
“This video production joins The Cleveland Orchestra’s most recent audio recording of Bruckner’s Symphony No.4, “Romantic” — already available for streaming and download at Adella.live and all major platforms. This focus on Bruckner comes as the Orchestra prepares to celebrate the composer’s 200th birthday on its upcoming European tour.”
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1958, American composer, pianist, and multi-faceted musician Jean Hasse was born in Cleveland. After graduating from the Oberlin Conservatory in 1981 and pursuing graduate studies at Cleveland State University, she embarked on a career that seems emblematic of entrepreneurial 21st-century artists. In addition to composing for films, silent films, videos and special events, and new concert music pieces, she has managed and served as representative for music publishing houses and formed her own company, Visible Music, in 1987. She moved to England in 1994.
Hasse’s career and accomplishments can’t be summed up in a few sentences. Read her own account here, and click here to listen to a 2013 performance from the University of Bristol (where she has taught film composition and scoring) of her new score for the 1928 silent short The Fall of the House of Usher, based on Poe’s classic story.
And click here to hear how Hasse reacted musically to Ernst Servaes’ 1912 film Artheme Swallows his Clarinet (when a piano lands on his head), premiered at the Luton Library Theater in 2017.
