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About Daniel Hathaway

Daniel Hathaway founded ClevelandClassical.com in September, 2008, after a thirty-one year tenure as music director of Cleveland’s Trinity Cathedral, where he founded the Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert Series and Trinity Chamber Orchestra. A graduate of Harvard College and the Episcopal Divinity School, he also studied historical musicology at Princeton and Harvard Universities. Before coming to Cleveland in 1977, he served as head of humanities at the Sunset Hill School in Kansas City and as head of arts at Groton School in Massachusetts. In Cleveland, he has served on the music staff of Cleveland Opera, Great Lakes Theater Festival, and the faculty of Laurel School. As an organist, Hathaway has played recitals in the U.S., England, France, Germany, and Austria. He team-teaches Music Journalism at Oberlin College and Conservatory and is a member of the Music Critics Association of North America.

DIARY: Weekend, December 9 – 11, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. City Music & No Exit along with a load of holiday-themed concerts

. Remembering Franck and Messiaen (pictured) on their birth anniversaries

TODAYS EVENTS:

On  Friday the 9th at 7:30 at Lakewood Congregational Church, CityMusic Orchestra, led by guest conductor Stefan Willich, and featuring trumpeter Jack Sutte and soprano Chabrelle Williams, will perform Mozart’s Overture and “Deh vieni non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro and Symphony No. 40 along wit Neruda’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Verdi’s “Caro nome” from Rigoletto, and Puccini’s  “O Mio Babbino Caro” from Gianni Schicchi. The program will be repeated on Saturday the 10th at 7:30 at the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, and Sunday the 11th at 3 at Federated Church. All performances are free.

Also on Friday. No Exit New Music will present a 7:30 concert at Kent State University’s Ludwig Recital Hall that includes three world premieres: David Glaser’s Aurora II, Max Friedman’s Butter-Iider, and Frank Wiley’s The Dream of Sisyphus, along with Henry Cowell’s The Banshee and Tiger, and Ladislav Kubik’a Nocturnes. Read a preview article here. The concert is free. [Read more…]

Oberlin Opera Theatre’s Offenbach & Rossini: “a little soufflé and a little spaghetti” (Nov. 12)

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by Daniel Hathaway

Oberlin Opera Theater’s fall double bill of Jacques Offenbach’s farce Le mariage aux lanternes and Rossini’s operetta L’occasione fa il ladro gave director Jonathon Field and two fine student casts a crack at producing both a puff piece and a classical bel canto title on the same program. They proved fully capable of meeting all challenges, bringing professional-level acting and singing to the Hall Auditorium stage. I saw the performance on November 12.

Le mariage aux lanternes, the evening’s curtain-raiser, is about Guillot (Bradley Boatright) and Denise (Genevieve Dilan), a couple working on a farm, who are in love with each other, though the clueless Guillot can’t acknowledge it. With the help of his Uncle Matthias (David Burgher), who sends them letters saying that when the Angelus rings, they’ll find what they are looking for beneath a big tree, they eventually find — each other. Meanwhile, two widows, Franchette (Isabel Merat) and Catherine (Kylie Buckham), are also vying for Guillot’s affection (or, more cynically, plotting to acquire his property). [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Britten at Trinity at noon, Apollo’s Fire and Trio Mediaeval in Lakewood and at CMA tonight

. Oberlin Orchestra concert available for replay

TODAYS EVENTS:

Today at Noon at Trinity Cathedral the high voices of the Cathedral Choir and harpist Jody Guinn will present Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Freewill offering.

At 7:00 pm, Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrrell will continue their run of performances of Handel’s Messiah at  Lakewood United Methodist Church. Sopranos Sonya Headlam and Erica Schuller, mezzo-sopranos Amanda Crider and Kim Leeds, tenor Steven Caldicott Wilson, and baritone Edward Vogel are the soloists. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, December 5, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Exploring new repertory with WRUW’s Eric Charnofsky

. Cleveland Orchestra joins Symphony Live, proposes 12-days of Christmas gift list

. Should other minds complete great unfinished musical works?

TODAYS EVENTS:

Explore off-the-beaten-track music from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm with host Eric Charnofsky on “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music,” including Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei for solo flute, Louis Andriessen’s Facing Death transcribed for saxophone quartet, Michael Kurek’s Moon Canticle for harp, Pamela Decker’s Flores del Desierto (Tangos for Organ), Julius Röntgen’s Sonata in E for violin and piano, and a realization of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10, a single movement piece assembled from sketches by Dr. Barry Cooper. To connect, click here, or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

QUICK LINKS:

Cleveland Orchestra joins Symphony Live and suggests a 12 Days of Christmas gift list. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend December 2-4, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway & Mike Telin

IN THIS EDITION:

. So many events both holiday-themed and otherwise! Helpfully, most will receive more than a single performance, widening your choices

. Weekend Almanac: remembering anniversaries of Vincent d’Indy & William Grant Still

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

The Cleveland Orchestra will present their final classical concerts before Holiday events swing into action. On Friday at 11:00 am and on Saturday at 8:00 pm Vasily Petrenko will lead Elgar’s Cockaigne (“In London Town”), Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Behzod Abduraimov as soloist, and Walton’s Symphony No. 1. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

No Exit New Music Ensemble: Laura King gets to the bottom of three world premieres

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by Daniel Hathaway

No Exit New Music Ensemble has scheduled three world premieres for its December concert cycle that begins at Praxis Fiber Gallery on Thursday, December 1, and continues on Saturday the 3rd at 8 pm (SPACES) and Friday the 9th at 7:30 pm (Kent State University).

Guest pianist Shuai Wang will join the ensemble — violinist Cara Tweed, violist James Rhodes, cellist Nicholas Diodore, pianist and composer Nicholas Underhill, flutist Sean Gabriel, clarinetist Gunnar Owen Hirthe, percussionist Luke Rinderknecht, artistic director and composer Timothy Beyer, and composer, conductor, and pianist James Praznik — in a program that includes music by Henry Cowell and world premieres by Max Friedman (Butter-lider), David Glaser (Aurora II), and Frank Wiley (The Dream of Sisyphus).

Taking a novel approach to introducing the program, the ensemble sent Laura King to interview the three composers, revealing interesting insights into their individual personalities, sources of inspiration, and creative processes. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, November 30, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. The Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert at Trinity features Todd Wilson’s CIM organ studio & Ólafsson solo piano recital in Reinberger Chamber Music Hall at Severance

. Tuesday Musical announces annual scholarship competition

. Elizabethan madrigalist Thomas Weelkes passes in 1623

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12:00 pm – Trinity Brownbag Concert. Organist Todd Wilson & students of the Cleveland Institute of Music organ studio. Festive seasonal music played on Trinity’s two great pipe organs. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.

At 7:30 pm – pianist Vìkingur Ólafsson (pictured above) will play a long list of short pieces by Mozart & his contemporaries in Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center, including works by Galuppi, C.P.E. Bach, Cimarosa, and Haydn and arrangements by Liszt and Ólafsson himself. Take a deep breath and order your tickets online.

IN THE NEWS:

Tuesday Musical’s 2023 Annual Scholarship Competition is Saturday, March 18, with significantly increased cash awards. Applications will be accepted online from January 1 through January 31, 2023. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, November 28, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky’s Ned Rorem tribute

. Jean-Baptiste Lully makes his debut

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today’s program from Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, hosted by Eric Charnofsky, commemorates the life of Ned Rorem (1923-2022) with selections of his music for voice and piano, choir, orchestral, and chamber ensemble, along with the reading of inspiring and incisive Rorem quotes. Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

LOOKING AHEAD TO MIDWEEK:

On Wednesday at 7:30 pm – pianist Vìkingur Ólafsson (pictured above) will play a wide-ranging program of music by Mozart and his contemporaries in Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend November 25-27, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Resident ensembles step up for Thanksgiving weekend

. A tangle of headlines to sort through

. Almanac: anniversary of a richly textured Bach cantata, revisiting piano works of Earl Wild

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

Cleveland’s major resident ensembles are holding down the fort on Thanksgiving weekend with the help of some distinguished guests.

Thomas Søndergård, recently named Osmo Vanska’s successor as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, will join The Cleveland Orchestra and violinist Stefan Jackiw for Benjamin Britten’ s Violin Concerto No. 1 & Igor Stravinsky’s complete Firebird ballet on Friday and Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoon at Severance Music Center. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, November 21, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. COYO receives $5 million gift

. No Exit concert back online after silly snafu

. R.I.P. composer Ned Rorem at 99

. Henry Purcell neatly timed his all-too-early demise

TODAY’S EVENTS:

From 2:00 pm until 4:00 pm today it’s “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music,” hosted by Eric Charnofsky. The playlist includes Ingolf Dahl’s Concerto for Alto Saxophone, several choral selections by Randall Thompson, Out Yonder by Terry Riley, Ernest John Moeran’s Fantasy Quartet, and orchestral music by Silvestre Revueltas and art songs by Edvard Grieg. Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

IN THE NEWS:

The Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) announced on Saturday that it will receive a $5 million gift from Geoffrey and Sarah Gund to The Cleveland Orchestra’s endowment, helping to ensure that this unique musical training experience continues for generations of young people. [Read more…]

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