by Daniel Hathaway
OBERLIN LAUNCHES NEW ONLINE SERIES:
Beginning next week, Oberlin Conservatory will offer “Oberlin Stage Left,” featuring performances by faculty and students, as well as guests from around the globe. New programs will be broadcast on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Sunday afternoons. The inaugural performance at 7:30 pm on Tuesday, April 14, will feature Harp Professor Yolanda Kondonassis and the Oberlin Orchestra, Raphael Jiménez, conducting, in Ginastera’s Harp Concerto, preceded by an interview with Kondonassis by Conservatory Dean William Quillen.
TODAY’S FEATURED STREAMS:
Visit the Concert Listings page for details about today’s scheduled events, including Lunchtime with The Cleveland Orchestra, Cleveland Opera Theater’s Opera-101 Online, a special concert from Boston by Transient Canvas, Piano Cleveland’s Quarantine Concert with pianists Yaron Kohlberg & Meng Yuan & violinist Ariel Clayton Karas, and tonight’s MET Opera HD archived stream of Wagner’s Parsifal.
Today at 12 Noon EDT on IDAGIO Live, Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will talk with Michele Gamba about the journey of a classical conductor through the ages into the modern era. Watch here.
TODAY’S FEATURED VIDEOS:
On this second day of Passover, Cleveland Orchestra cellist Martha Baldwin offers a living room performance of Ernest Bloch’s “Prayer” from Jewish Life. Bloch wrote the suite during his tenure as president of the Cleveland Institute of Music from 1920-1925. Watch here.
M.U.S.i.C. — Stars in the Classics was to have held its Classical Cabaret No. 25 on March 29. “Music from Sunny Spain” was cancelled due to the pandemic, but several of the musicians who were slated to perform have recorded their pieces from home. Watch the assembled video here
Mathematician-turned-comedian Tom Lehrer turns 92 today. His day job was teaching at Harvard, M.I.T. and several other institutions, but he morphed into a wickedly witty cabaret performer at night. Among his best creations is The Elements Song, where he names all 102 chemical elements known at the time in a parody of the Major-General’s Song from Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Watch the original animation by Mike Stanfill here (or an updated version including all 118 elements here). Purists can watch Lehrer perform it live in 1967 from Copenhagen here.
