by Daniel Hathaway
At 6 pm in Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center, the Mandel Festival presents The Women of Chicago’s Black Renaissance featuring pianist Michelle Cann, who will perform works by Nora Holt, Betty Jackson King, Florence Price, Irene Britton Smith, and Margaret Bonds.
Tune in tonight at 8:00 pm or point your web browser to Ideastream Public Media’s Listen Online page to hear two ChamberFest Cleveland blockbusters from past festivals:
César Franck’s Piano Trio No. 1 in F-sharp minor, Op. 1 No. 1, with Juho Pohjonen (piano), Stephen Waarts (violin), and Jonathan Swensen (cello), and Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in F minor, Op. 80, with Alexi Kenney & Nathan Meltzer (violins), Hsin-Yun Huang (viola), and Nicholas Canellakis (cello).
ChamberFest Cleveland 2025 will run this year from June 11-28 in several venues around the city. Subscriptions and single tickets are now on sale here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1954, the iconoclastic American composer Charles Ives died in New York. [Read more…]