by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Seven events to choose from today.
No Exit Presents the Meridian Arts Ensemble (7 pm at the Bop Stop), the BW Symphonic Wind Ensemble plays at 7 (Gamble Auditorium), the Marian Consort (pictured) from Norwich, England sings “a program of sumptuous Renaissance polyphony from some of Scotland’s few surviving sixteenth-century manuscripts” (7:30 at St. John’s Cathedral).
Cleveland Classical Guitar Society hosts João Luiz (7:30 at the Maltz PAC), Carolyn Kuan leads the CIM Orchestra and soloist Natalie Brennecke in Penderecki’s Viola Concerto (7:30 at Severance Music Center), New York Philharmonic principal clarinet Anthony McGill joins Timothy Weiss and the Oberin Sinfonietta in Warner Concert Hall, and across Tappan Square, Oberlin Opera Theater presents the second of four performances of Jules Massenet’s Cendrillon (8 pm Hall Auditorium).
For details of these and other upcoming events, visit our Concert Listings.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1890, Belgian-born French composer César Franck died in Paris, his demise partially attributed to the after effects of injuries he sustained when a cab he was riding in collided with a horse-drawn trolley.
Franck’s most celebrated works are for the organ, including the Trois Chorales completed during the last year of his life. Click here to watch French organist Vincent Dubois play No. 3 in a minor at Soissons Cathedral. Dubois, who performed at St. John’s Cathedral in Cleveland in November, 2015, is now one of the three tenured organists at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
Otherwise, the composer left only one Symphony, performed here by Pierre Monteux and the Chicago Symphony, with a follow-along score. Among his chamber works are the popular and dramatic Violin Sonata, played here by ChamberFest Cleveland rising stars Nathan Meltzer and Evren Ozel in Harkness Chapel at CWRU. (It’s frequently poached by cellists, as well as the occasional flutist — which just doesn’t quite seem right for the material.)
Born on this date in 1906 in Cambridge, MA, American composer, conductor, and lutenist Rudolph Arnold Dolmetsch was the son of early music revival pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch, who settled with his family in the English village of Haslemere in 1914 and maintained a workshop for period instruments.
Rudolph eventually veered off in his own direction, but kept one foot in the early music world, as shown by his Concertino for Viola da Gamba and Small Orchestra from 1941. Click here for a performance by the Concord Chamber Orchestra.
And on this date in 1991, American musicologist and pianist John Kirkpatrick left us, but his legacy as the authority on the music of Charles Ives and as the composer’s archivist remains strong. Among his signal achievements, the first recording of Ives’ thorny Concord Sonata. Listen here.
