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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 of July 1-4, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. June festivals wind up, July concerts blast off at Blossom

. News Briefs: CityMusic to go conductorless

. Interesting read: Culture Track survey dismantles some stereotypes about older Americans and the arts

. Almanac: The storks were busy this weekend. Celebrating the debuts of William Herbert Brewster, Carl Weinrich, Frederick Fennell, and Leoš Janáček

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

ChamberFest Cleveland ends the third week of its tenth season with performances of Debussy & Thorvaldsdottir on Friday at The Madison (note the correct start time is 7:30 pm and read a preview article here), Berio & Brahms on Saturday at 7:30 at the Maltz PAC (6:30 prelude concert by violinist Stephen Waarts), and on Sunday at 6:30 at The Grove Amphitheater (featuring soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon, violinist Stephen Waarts, and harpist Sivan Magen). [Read more…]

ChamberFest Cleveland: Color X Expanse (June 24)

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by Daniel Hathaway.

At the Cultural Arts Center at Disciples Church on Friday, June 24, the repertoire was indeed both colorful and expansive as the excellent musicians of ChamberFest Cleveland explored works ranging from the sentimental (Fritz Kreisler’s Three Pieces for Piano Trio) to the evanescent (Gabriel Fauré’s Piano Quintet No. 1), from the stark and compact (George Walker’s Piano Sonata No. 5) to the delightfully verbose (Zoltán Kodály’s Duo for Violin and Cello, Op. 7).

Violinist chamberf raised the curtain with three light pieces arranged by a virtuoso violinist famous for his encores. Kreisler’s takes on The Old Refrain, Farewell to Cucullain (a.k.a. Londonderry Air or Oh Danny Boy), and Miniature Viennese March worked equally well as preludial bon-bons. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. OLO’s Hello, Dolly! reviewed and matinee scheduled for 2pm, UA Symphonic Band goes al fresco tonight

. In the News: ASCAP Young Composer Awards

. Interesting Reads: vocal warmups and vinyl supply chain problems

. Almanac: remembering Cleveland composer Hale Smith [Read more…]

Ohio Light Opera: Hello, Dolly! (June 23)

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by Daniel Hathaway

On June 23, Ohio Light Opera rang up the curtain on the second production of its 43rd season in Freedlander Theatre at The College of Wooster. Following on the heels of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella, the company’s first-ever staging of Hello, Dolly! continued the inclusion of Broadway in OLO’s repertoire.

The story line has its origin in an 1855 play and an 1842 farce that Thornton Wilder mined for his 1938 play The Merchant of Yonkers. When that turned out to be a flop, in 1954 Wilder made the crucial decision to re-center the show around the character of the legendary marriage broker Dolly Gallagher Levi and renamed it The Matchmaker. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, June 27, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. Walker, Ives, and Furtwängler on today’s “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music”

. Update on Cliburn gold medalist Yunchan Lim, Youth Wind Symphony joins CSU

. Almanac features Happy Birthday composer & piano sonatas by George Walker on his natal anniversary

ON TODAY:

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky, host. George Walker’s Five Fancies for clarinet and piano four hands, William Bland’s Sonata No. 4 for guitar and piano, Charles Ives’ Turn Ye, Turn Ye for choir and pipe organ, and Wilhelm Furtwängler’s second symphony. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend of June 24-26, 2022  

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. a long list of concerts in all shapes, flavors and sizes

. taking note of births and first performances: Terry Riley, William Grant Still, and Magnus Lindberg

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

The results of ENCORE’s String Quartet Intensive will be on display in three Young Artist Concerts on Friday at 7pm, and Saturday at 4pm and 7pm at Gilmour Academy’s Dodero Center in Gates Mills.

ChamberFest Cleveland presents “Color X Expanse” on Friday at 7:30 at Disciples Church, visiting piano music by Fritz Kreisler and George Walker, Kodaly’s Violin/Cello Duo and Fauré’s Piano Quintet. [Read more…]

Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival: Davin-Levin guitar & harp duo (June 3)

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by Daniel Hathaway

You’d think that two instruments that create their sound by plucking strings might not provide enough variety to sustain interest over the course of a whole program, but guitarist Colin Davin and harpist Emily Levin have news for you.

The Davin-Levin Duo played the second recital of the 2022 Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival on June 3 in Kulas Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music.

Their engaging program, containing original arrangements of 20th-century works and a recent piece, was the first of four during the festival to feature guitarists playing with other instrumentalists, and Davin and Levin made the most of their opportunity to plunge into the rich possibilities of collaboration. [Read more…]

ChamberFest Cleveland: Zooming with cellist & rising star Jonathan Swensen

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by Mike Telin

When looking at cellist Jonathan Swensen’s Facebook page, you can’t help but think that he is one busy guy. And one who has a good time doing what he does.

“I’m enjoying the traveling and the discovery that come with this life,” he said over Zoom. “Every audience and every hall has its special charm. I love experiencing different cultures. But it’s funny because I can go to so many places where I don’t speak anyone’s language, and be able to share something that comes from the heart. Something which any listener can understand, and that is very nice.”

Leading up to Swensen’s ChamberFest Cleveland debut on Thursday, June 23 at 7:30 pm at the Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall, I reached him at his home in Copenhagen. [Read more…]

Stars in the Classics to present al fresco Summer Shows

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by Daniel Hathaway

Textile artist Jodi Kanter has developed a second career as a musical impresario. As artistic director of M.U.S.i.C. (Musical Upcoming Stars in the Classics), she heads a non-profit organization that searches out talented young musicians, gives them the opportunity to perform in concerts they curate themselves, and compensates them for their services.

Those opportunities come in the form of two styles of concerts each season: Classical Cabarets and Musical Salons. The latter, presented in the intimate settings of private homes, include Mid-Winter Musical Salons, Spring Salons, Halloween Salons, and Holiday Salons.

Recently, Kanter has added outdoor events to the mix. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, June 22, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. Hello Dolly! at Ohio Light Opera

. Almanac: Sir Peter Pears, Jeffrey Mumford, and Darius Milhaud celebrate anniversaries of their debuts 

ON TODAY:

At 2:00 pm Ohio Light Opera presents Cinderella, music by Richard Rodgers, book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II at Freedlander Theatre, 329 E. University St., Wooster. Purchase tickets here.

To check out live concerts happening this week in Northeast Ohio, see our Concert Listings. [Read more…]

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