by Daniel Hathaway
REMINDER — IT’S SPRING:
Following days of being cooped up inside, this morning provided the wonderful opportunity to take a walk, smell the fresh air after the rain, and admire the colors of spring blossoms. It brought to mind an e.e. cummings poem and several pieces of music.
Click here to watch a video of Robert Schumann’s Spring Symphony (No. 1 in B-flat) with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in November, 2012. Or here to listen to a live, 1963 performance of Benjamin Britten’s A Spring Symphony. Leonard Bernstein conducts the New York Philharmonic with soloists Jennifer Vyvyan, Regina Sarfaty, and Richard Lewis, the Collegiate Chorale, and the Boys’ Choirs from The Little Church Around the Corner and St. Paul’s Church, Westfield, NJ.
TODAY’S STREAMS:
Visit the Concert Listings page for details about today’s Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater’s Opera-101 Online, pianist Jeremy Denk on The Greene Space, the latest episode in Baldwin Wallace’s “Surrounded by Sound” series, and tonight’s MET Opera HD archived stream of Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West.
AUDIO TRACK FOR TODAY:
Listen to Jacob Handl’s Miserere mei, Deus from Quire Cleveland’s concert on February 29th at St. Vitus Church. Jay White conducts.
TODAY’S JUST-FOR-FUN VIDEO:
Most musicians are foodies, and some are spending extra hours in the kitchen during the quarantine. Violinist Alexi Kenney’s latest episode of “I Think I’ve Lost It” finds the ChamberFest Cleveland regular creating stock after roasting a whole chicken.