by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Only a single event to list for today: at 12 Noon, Florence Mustric (pictured) plays Mendelssohn’s Sonatas No. 2 & No. 6 on the Beckerath Organ in Trinity Lutheran Church in Ohio City. Visit our Concert Listings for details of upcoming performances.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: The Cleveland Chamber Choir, the region’s premier professional choral ensemble, continues its mission of performances of unique and diverse repertoire in its 10th anniversary, 2024-25 season. The pay-what-you-wish concerts blend music by living composers with ten centuries of choral tradition, and emphasize the works of composers historically excluded from the concert hall. Additionally the ensemble has been named Artist-in-Residence at Trinity Cathedral. Click here for more information.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Estonian-born composer Arvo Pärt was born on September 11, 1935. One of the truly original voices of the 20th century, Pärt invented what he called the tintinnabuli style, a minimalist approach influenced by chant.
Frequent ChamberFest Cleveland violinist Alexi Kenney joined his colleague Stefan Jackiw and Boston’s A Far Cry chamber orchestra in a live performance of “Silentium,” the second movement of Pärt’s Tabula Rasa, in Jordan Hall in 2017. Watch here. And listen to the Estonian Chamber Choir sing Pärt’s 1989 Magnificat under the direction of Paul Hillier.
French composer, organist, and harpsichordist François Couperin “Le Grand” died in Paris on this date in 1733. QinYing Tang included the 18th Ordre from his Troisième livre de pièces de clavecin on her doctoral recital at the Cleveland Institute of Music in April, 2015. And in the same month, Les Délices played his La Sultanne on its program in Herr Chapel at Plymouth Church in Shaker Heights.
