by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
- 12 Noon – CIM Museum Melodies, one-hour programs featuring pianists from the Cleveland Institute of Music at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- 7:00 pm – Chagrin Arts & Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association present “Freedom Rocks,” a concert to end wrongful conviction, featuring trumpeter Dominick Farinacci at Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- 7:00 pm – Nightingale Opera. Jake Heggie’s Two Remain, based on the true stories of Holocaust survivors Krystyna Żywulska, a political dissident, and Gad Beck, a Jewish gay man, at Congregation Mishkan Or
- 7:30 pm – Oberlin Sinfonietta with soprano Katherine Jolly (pictured) in Warner Concert Hall
- 7:30 pm – CIM Faculty Recital: Gerardo Teissonnière plays the complete Impromptus of Schubert at the Maltz
- 7:30 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra with Elim Chan, conductor and Yefim Bronfman, piano, at Severance Music Center.
Visit our Concert Listings for details of upcoming performances.
SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT:
Heights Arts has announced details of its new season, including its intimate Close Encounters chamber music series and community-focused ARTbar and Gallery Concerts. Read an announcement here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On September 26, New England composer William Billings died in Boston in 1800, French conductor Charles Munch was born in Strasbourg in 1891, and American composer and trombonist William Dawson was born in Anniston, Alabama in 1890.
Billings departed the scene too early to have left recordings, but Ross W. Duffin and Quire Cleveland brought his infectious motet I Am the Rose of Sharon (“Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples…”) to life in a concert at Historic St. Peter’s Church in April, 2014. Watch here.
Here’s a clip of a performance of “The Shepherds’ Farewell to the Holy Family” from Berlioz’ L’Enfance du Christ with Charles Munch conducting the Boston Symphony, Harvard Glee Club, and Radcliffe Choral Society in December of 1966, a luminous performance of a work that should be heard more frequently (the entire oratorio is available on DVD — see the notes).
William L. Dawson brought the Tuskegee Institute Choir to such a level that the ensemble was invited to sing six daily performances at New York City’s Radio City Music Hall in 1932. His arrangements of spirituals are classics, and his Negro Folk Symphony was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1934. Click here to watch a performance by The Orchestra Now (TŌN), conducted by Leon Botstein in a live streamed concert from the Fisher Center at Bard College on September 11, 2021.
