by Daniel Hathaway
As the pandemic unfolds, we’re continuing to post events in our Concert Listings that have been marked postponed, cancelled, or converted to non-public performances to be live-streamed — as a way of keeping track of the devastation live classical music is suffering this spring. We’re also adding new events that are available online and marking them with icons that will make them stand out in the calendar. Presenters and artists: please let us know via email about new live-streamed performances or archived videos that will be of interest to our readers in Northeast Ohio.
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA TODAY:
Today’s 8:00 pm broadcast on WCLV, 104.9 FM and on the web features guest conductor Alan Gilbert and pianist Garrick Ohlsson in Haydn’s Symphony No. 100 (“Military”) and Busoni’s Piano Concerto (with the men of the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus).
TODAY’S LIVE STREAMS:
March 28 is World Piano Day, and Deutsche Grammophon is marking the occasion with a live, virtual festival featuring performances by its family of artists, including Maria João Pires, Víkingur Ólafsson, Joep Beving, Rudolf Buchbinder, Seong-Jin Cho, Jan Lisiecki, Kit Armstrong, Simon Ghraichy, Daniil Trifonov, and Evgeny Kissin. Check out the playlist here, and join the stream beginning at 10:00 am on DG’s YouTube channel.
From MUSIC on the REBOUND, at 4:50 pm today, Claire Chase and ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) will present Pauline Oliveros’ Tuning Meditation, “an interactive musical performance where people from all over the world can sing right from the comfort of their homes, joining a sonic gathering with a legacy of bringing communities together through meditative singing.” No music experience necessary. RSVP through Eventbrite here. You will receive a link to join the online event, hosted via Zoom. Click the link at 4:50 pm and join the webcast (please use headphones or earbuds).
SOME ONLINE HIGHLIGHTS:
Violinist Augustin Hadelich, who was to perform with the Canton Symphony last week (now rescheduled for May 19), recently wrote on his Facebook page, “I miss playing with other people!!!” In lieu of being able to do that, he recorded himself playing both the piano and violin parts of Rachmaninoff’s Vocalise. His software allowed him to show the results on a split screen — view the video here.
More Augustin Hadelich: If you like cat videos (and especially if you have children at home to entertain with a short, high-quality classical music video), try the violinist’s performance of Paganini’s Caprice No. 17 on Fantasia dei Gatti with the animation by Tam King.
San Francisco Symphony has made its second batch of archived “Keeping Score” episodes available for streaming today (March 28). Originally released in April of 2009, the two programs feature Michael Tilson Thomas and the Orchestra in “Mahler Origins — Symphony No. 1” and “Mahler Legacy — A Mahler Journey.” Music includes full-length concert performances of Symphony No. 1, Titan, Songs of a Wayfarer, with baritone Thomas Hampson, the Adagietto from Symphony No. 5, the Scherzo from Symphony No. 7, and theRondo Burleske from Symphony No. 9.
New York Times critics have weighed in today with their favorite recordings of Beethoven symphonies. Cleveland readers may have been surprised by what’s missing. Read the article here and check out the comments (civilized and thoughtful, as one might hope for from classical music fans).
And after their spring Carnegie Hall concert was cancelled, 74 members of the New York Youth Symphony made good use of both the social distancing decree and online collaboration software by remotely performing an excerpt from Mahler’s First Symphony. Michael Repper conducts, and Raina Tung put the video together.