by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S LIVE STREAM:
Binge watch opera, anyone? Beginning today at 1:00 pm EDT, the MET Opera will broadcast its At Home Gala online, featuring 40 of its stars performing from their homes across nine time zones around the world. Watch and donate here. Click here to read Joshua Barone’s New York Times feature about how the company is pulling off this technological feat. And for a view of some of the controversial issues the gala raises, read David Patrick Stearns’ story on the WQXR blog here.
TODAY’S FEATURED VIDEOS:
Baldwin Wallace’s Virtual Bach Festival continues at 7:00 pm today with an archived performance of the Matthew-Passion from 2016. Dirk Garner conducts, with Rufus Müller as Evangelist, and Dashon Burton as Christus. Soloists include Yulia Van Doren, Luthien Brackett, Matthew Anderson, and Jason Steigerwalt. Visit the BW web page here to view the program and watch the performance.
Had the Bach Festival not been cancelled this weekend, you could have stopped by BW’s Riemenschneider Bach Institute to admire some of its holdings. Paul Cary, the director of BW’s Jones Music Library, shows a selection of its treasures in a 6-½ minute video.
TODAY ON THE WEB AND AIRWAYS:
Check the Concert Listings for times and details about violinist Emily Cornelius’ virtual concert sponsored by the Cleveland Federation of Musicians, and today’s Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio broadcast.
INTERESTING READ:
Feel like just doing nothing? It’s OK. In his Critic’s Notebook in the New York Times today, Dwight Garner considers what he calls his ‘library of indolence’ — “I mean novels like Oblomov, Ivan Goncharov’s satire about a man who hates to leave his bed, and Bartleby, the Scrivener, Herman Melville’s long short story about the clerk whose motto is “I would prefer not to.” I mean essays like G. K. Chesterton’s On Lying in Bed, Robert Morley’s In Praise of Obesity, Adam Phillips’s On Being Bored and Bertrand Russell’s In Praise of Idleness. With a nap between each, these essays will fill a whole day.”