by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Today at 12 noon, the Church of the Covenant in University Circle presents organist Ralph Holtzhauser in music by Denis Bedard, Brenda Portman, Charles Tournemire, Simon Preston, and Mark Miller.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Canton Symphony has released details of its 2025-2026 season. Its classical series will include performances led by guest conductors Wesley Schulz, JoAnn Falletta, Tito Muñoz, Roger Kalia, Jeri Lynne Johnson, Mélisse Brunet, and Francesco Lecce-Chong. Featured soloists and ensembles will include Meg Su, guitar, Nikki Choi, violin, Mark Kosower, cello, Averi Ellis, narrator, Jessica Leigh Payne, soprano, Sunghoon Han, bass-baritone, the Canton Symphony Chorus, and Zhan Shu, violin. Tickets for these and other series events will be available on July 1. Read the announcement here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1896, Clara Wieck Schumann died in Frankfurt am Main. The pianist, teacher, and wife of Robert Schumann was known principally as a concert pianist, a career she pursued for more than six decades — four of them after Robert’s death in 1856.
She also composed sporadically through most of her life, including two piano concertos (the second unfinished), choral and vocal pieces, and other occasional works. Two chamber works stand out: her Three Romances, op. 22 and the Piano Trio in g, written in 1846 just before she turned 27.
Click here to watch a performance of the Romances by Rebecca Benjamin and Christine Hill in Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and here for a performance of the g-minor work by the Atos Trio (Annette von Hehn, violin, Thomas Hoppe, piano, and Stefan Heinemeyer, cello) in a live concert at the Konzerthaus in Berlin.
Being good Romantic-era icons, the lives of Clara and Robert Schumann have proven film-worthy. The oldest movie, Träumerei, dates from 1944, followed by The Song of Love in 1947 (with Katharine Hepburn playing Clara), Frühlingssinfonie in 1983, and Geliebte Clara in 2008.
If you have an hour and three-quarters to spare and want to brush up on your German, Geliebte Clara is available here (without subtitles!)
