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DIARY: Wednesday, November 2, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Visiting cellist and saxophonist

. Piano Cleveland at Phunkenship

. An Austrian, a Russian and a Greek to memorialize

TODAY’S EVENTS: 

12:00 pm – Trinity Brownbag Concert. John Waltz, principal cello, Los Angeles Opera & Elizabeth DeMio, piano. Beethoven and Brahms cello sonatas. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.

7:30 pm – CIM Faculty Recital, featuring Steven Banks, saxophone, with Xak Bjerken, piano. Camille Saint-Saëns’ Oboe Sonata, Op. 166, Carlos Simon’s hear them (2020) & Sergei Rachmninoff’s Cello Sonata, Op. 19. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Free seating passes required. Click here to reserve. The performance will be live streamed here [Read more…]

Thomas Ospital to perform on both Trinity Cathedral organs Nov. 1

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by Daniel Hathaway

When the internationally famous organist and composer Jean Guillou ended his 52-year-long run as tenured organist at the Church of St.-Eustache in Paris in 2015, two successors were named, including Thomas Ospital, who was 20 at the time.

“It’s never simple to follow such a musician as Guillou,” Ospital said in a telephone conversation from Tulsa, where he was due to play a recital on Friday evening. “You have the choice between being yourself or doing something new. I only met him twice, which made it easier.”

Ospital, who spent six months in New Orleans when he was 21 and made regular concert tours until COVID arrived, will play a free recital at Trinity Cathedral on Tuesday evening, November 1 at 7:30 pm. His program, co-sponsored by Music and Art at Trinity and the Cleveland chapter of the American Guild of Organists, includes works by Buxtehude and J.S. Bach on the 1977 Flentrop Orgelbouw instrument of Dutch Baroque design, and music by Ravel, Duruflé and Franck on the Aeolian-Skinner organ in the American romantic style rebuilt by Muller in 2022. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, October 31, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Music to raise goose bumps and stand your hair on end

. G. Schirmer’s plans to publish music by Holocaust composers

. Remembering Roget Quilter, Hugo Distler, and Anthony van Hoboken

TODAY’S EVENTS:

2:00 pm – Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky, host. A special Halloween-themed program, including music about haunted landscapes, witches, gnomes, apparitions, hallucinations, the moon, and nighttime. Composers include Arthur Bliss, György Ligeti, Robert Gibson, Ottorino Respighi, Lei Liang, Mathew Rosenblum, George Crumb, and John Corigliano. Listen on WRUW (via the internet feed) or at 91.1 FM in Cleveland. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, October 28-30, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Featured: a mix of Korean song & European opera, multiple concert choices all weekend

. Remembering Joseph Pulitzer (what happened to the prizewinners?)

. Choosing spooky music for All Hallows Eve, and remembering Black Tuesday and the New York Stock Exchange crash of 1929 (might make you feel better about 2022)

WEEKEND  EVENTS:

This weekend’s featured event brings Korean and European cultures together in  the physical context of visual art. On Saturday evening at 7:30, Singers Kyung Kim, Hein Jung, and Misook Yun (pictured) will join pianist Younjung Cha in a free  program of Korean songs and Western opera trios at the McDonough Museum of Art at Youngstown State University.

I recently spoke about the event via teleconference with soprano Misook Yun, who has taught at YSU for 24 years (we were joined by her 20-year-old orange tabby cat, a charming if persistent Zoom bomber). [Read more…]

Sords set to resume touring after long hiatus

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by Daniel Hathaway

Before the novel coronavirus blew into the music world in 2020, bringing with it what he calls “the Great Silence,” violinist Andrew Sords was among the busiest touring soloists and chamber musicians in the industry. He reckons that he spent nearly 200 days on the road in 2019, compared to 40 this year.

This Saturday, October 29 at 7:00 pm at the Federated Church in Chagrin Falls, Sords will join colleagues Mari Sato, violin, Eric Wong, viola, John Walz, cello, and Elizabeth DeMio, piano, in works by Brahms, Dvořák, and Rachmaninoff. Dvořák’s Piano Quintet is at the center of the program, a work Sords classifies as “a desert island piece” that should become more of a special undertaking for its performers, rather than just a standard repertory item. “It’s an epic project,” Sords said. “But rehearsing it doesn’t even seem like work.”

That’s a healthy attitude Andrew Sords brings to practicing and rehearsing in general. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, October 26, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. featured keyboard music by (Domenico) Scarlatti & George Walker

. the Beatles and Jacques Lousssier push at stylistic borders

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 7:30 tonight, pianist Alexandre Dossin takes his program “Piano Soundscapes: A Journey through Six Decades in the Music of George Walker” to Oberlin’s Warner Concert Hall in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the composer’s birth. The program includes his Prelude and Caprice, Variations on a Kentucky Folk Song, Piano Sonata No. 2, Spatials, Spektra, Piano Sonata No. 3, Guido’s Hand — Five Pieces for Piano & Piano Sonata No. 5. Click here to watch a live stream.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

The prolific keyboard composer Domenico Scarlatti was born in Naples on this date in 1685, the son of composer Alessandro Scarlatti, and the third eminent member of the Class of ‘85 that includes Handel and J.S. Bach. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, October 24, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

.  COYO announces season with new conductor Daniel Reith (pictured), Watson moves on from Tri-C JazzFest, Piano Cleveland announces Young Artist Institute

. Weelkes and Gubaidulina share a birthdate

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 2:00 pm join host Eric Charnofksy for Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music. Today’s edition celebrates the birth anniversaries of George Crumb and Luciano Berio, featuring Crumb’s Four Nocturnes for violin and piano, Quest for guitar and chamber ensemble & Pastoral Drone for organ, Berio’s Eindrücke for orchestra, & Petite Suite for piano, plus a string quartet by Edvard Grieg and vocal music by Leoš Janáček. WRUW.

IN THE NEWS:

Tickets are now on sale for the 2022/23 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) season. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, October 21 – 23, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

.  Concerts in all flavors to choose from

. R.I.P. violinist Geoff Nuttall (pictured), news from Piano Cleveland

. Howard Hanson & Franz Liszt celebrate birthdays, Jean-Marie Leclair & Alessandro Scarlatti take their leave

WEEKEND  EVENTS:

Today, at 12:15 pm, McGaffin Carillon Concert & Live Stream presents Sheryl Modlin, guest carillonneur (Church of the Saviour, Cleveland Hts.). Her program of Halloween favorites includes themes from The Adams Family and the Munsters, “the” Bach Toccata & music by Gounod, Chopin, and John Williams. McGaffin Tower, 11205 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Free. Click here for live stream.

At 7:30 the imaginative period ensemble Les Délices unveils their new program, Winds of Change, at the Akron Public Library (downtown). The all-instrumental concert features chamber works from the eve of the French and Haitian Revolutions, inspired by philosophical ideals of liberty and equality and early abolitionist writing. Classical Era works by Joseph Bologne Chevalier de St. Georges and Luigi Boccherini will be paired with Haitian composer Sydney Guillaume’s commission A Journey to Freedom. [Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, October 19, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Farewell to Gabriel’s horns at Trinity

. Scottish Chamber Orchestra soloist Nicola Benedetti profiled, anniversaries of Ravel’s Pictures, Gershwin’s Lullaby, and the premature departure of Jacqueline du Pré

TODAY’S  EVENTS:

At noon, Trinity Cathedral’s Brownbag Concert features the popular big band Gabriel’s Horns (pictured). If you’re a fan, you should know that bandleader James Mays is retiring, so this will be the horns’ final appearance on the lunchtime series at Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.

IN THE NEWS:

Violinist Nicola Benedetti, who will appear on Akron’s Tuesday Musical Series on Thursday with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in the Max Bruch Concerto, is profiled in The Guardian in conjunction with her recent appointment as director of the Edinburgh Festival. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, October 17, 2022,

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Sphinx Virtuosi visit CIM, Charnofsky interviews bassist Ruth Cavano

. Anniversaries, some tragic, and invitations to explore some overlooked chamber music

TODAY’S  EVENTS:

2:00 pm – Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofksy hosts a new episode that includes. Michael Nyman’s Where the Bee Dances for soprano saxophone and chamber orchestra, Sara Feigin’s Variations for piano, Ivor Gurney’s Five Elizabethan Songs, Joseph Martin Kraus’s Riksdags March for orchestra, plus a special interview with prize-winning CWRU double bass student Ruth Cavano, discussing her upcoming recital on campus and playing a sampling of her repertoire by J.S. Bach and Andrés Martín. Join the broadcast on WRUW.

7:30 pm – CIM welcomes Sphinx Virtuosi, featuring Tommy Mesa, cello & Hannah Whitc, violin, in the program “Songs for our Times,” featuring Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, & Divided for Solo Cello & Orchestra,Michael Dudley’s Prayer for our Times, Valerie Coleman’s Tracing Visions, Carlos Simon’s Between Worlds, Heitor Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 9, Ricardo Herz’s Sísifo na Cidade Grande & Ludwig van Beethoven’s Violin Sonata No. 9 in a, arr. Rubén Rngel. Kulas Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, 11021 East Boulevard, Cleveland. Free but seating passes required. [Read more…]

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