by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Trinity FranckFest, Gordon square postcards, Tuesday Musical on Wednesday: “genre bending transformations” from Nu Deco Ensemble

. Jeremy Denk webinar

. Precursors of the grand piano, the phonograph record, and the international orchestral tour

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Today at Noon, Trinity Cathedral begins its celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of “French composer” César Franck with two of his organ works played by Nicole Keller and Josh Kraybill, and his Violin Sonata performed by Andrew Sords and pianist Elizabeth DeMio. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Kent State mega-concert at Severance tonight marks 1970 shootings

. May Day follow-ups: Magdalen Choir goes live again, lay clerks trounce choristers

. Almanac: Haydn’s Creation debuts in Vienna

TODAY’S FEATURED EVENT:

Tonight’s 7 pm performance at Severance by some 300 Kent State School of Music and University students will commemorate the tragic Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970 through “Stories of Peace, Protest, and Reflection.” [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Piano Cleveland listening series, Quire on WCLV

. ChamberFest Cleveland season lineup, Ukrainian orchestra formed for touring

. Remembering Slonimsky and Scriabin

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Tonight at 7:30 pm in Tucker Hall at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Cleveland Heights, Piano Cleveland reunites two of its Cleveland International Piano Competition medalists from 2021 in the first of three Listening Series concerts. Byeol Kim and Lovre Marušić put their four hands together in a concert titled “Piano Duo Do’s and Don’ts.” In-person tickets and virtual passes are available online.

And tonight at 8, WCLV’s Cleveland Ovations broadcasts Quire Cleveland’s March 6 performance of Demantius’ St. John Passion at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church, including John Simna’s intermission interview with artistic director Jay White.

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

•Online: Eric Charnofsky’s Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music and Les Délices’ SalonEra 2.12

•Announcements from Tri-C JazzFest

•In the Almanac: Marco Enrico Bossi & John Knowles Paine

TODAY’S EVENTS:

Eric Charnofsky’s Monday program from CWRU (2-4 pm) features Charles Griffes’ Piano Sonata, Wilhelm Berger’s Variations and Fugue on an original theme for large orchestra, David Liptak’s solo guitar piece The Sighs, an organ sonata of Felix Mendelssohn, and the Suite for String Orchestra by Frank Bridge. Click here to listen to the internet feeds. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

In today’s edition of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, Eric Charnofsky makes a nod to Easter and Spring with Benjamin Fuhrman’s Study After Hokusai, for clarinet and viola, Kenneth Leighton’s An Easter Sequence, Malcolm Arnold’s 1st symphony, and Rachmaninoff’s cantata, Spring. Also, the premiere recording of two piano pieces by Georges Mathias, French-born student of Chopin. It’s on from 2 to 4pm over WRUW from Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

NEW CONCERTS ON THE CALENDAR:

It’s good to keep an eye out for interesting events that suddenly pop up on the Oberlin Conservatory Calendar. Like this week’s Messiaen Mini-Festival in Finney Chapel on Thursday and Friday April 21 and 22. The brainchild of conductor Timothy Weiss and organ professor Jonathan Moyer, the event includes Thursday discussions and Friday performances of two extended works by the French composer (pictured), who died 30 years ago. [Read more…]