by Daniel Hathaway
At 2 pm, Ohio Light Opera debuts its 2024 production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music in Freedlander Theater at the College of Wooster, and puts the show into its summer rotation. Visit our Concert Listings for more information.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
June 13 marks anniversaries for Mexican composer and conductor Carlos Chavez, who was born in Mexico City in 1899, and American composer David Diamond, who died in Rochester, NewYork in 2005. Although each of them have been championed by individual conductors, their music awaits wider attention.
A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music who taught for years at Juilliard, Diamond’s works — along with those of other mid-century tonal composers — were overshadowed by the rise of atonal music. [Read more…]