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DIARY: Weekend of July 15-17, 2022  

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. String Quartets, Orchestra concerts, Light Opera, and a trio of Carillons

. Concert updates and news bits from Ohio Light Opera, Cleveland Jazz Orchestra, Cleveland Classical Guitar Society and Cuyahoga Arts & Culture

. From Van: Two young musicians survive their orchestral trial years in Germany

. Almanac: birth anniversaries of Linda Ronstad, James MacMillan, and Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach)

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

On Friday July 15 at 7:00 pm the Callisto Quartet (pictured, Cameron Daly & Gregory Lewis, violins, Eva Kennedy, viola, Hannah Moses, cello) performs Haydn’s Quartet op.76, no. 4, Debussy’s. Quartet and Mendelssohn’s Quartet, op. 13 at the Solon Center for the Arts. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

Ohio Light Opera: Pirates of Penzance (July 7)

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by Daniel Hathaway

Ohio Light Opera has expanded its repertoire beyond the Savoy operas that originally defined the company, but it still finds room to produce one or two shows every season by the brilliant team of William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan, who found so many ways to poke fun at the cozy conventions of Victorian England.

This season’s G&S show, Pirates of Penzance, subtitled “The Slave of Duty,” spins its plot around young Frederick, sung by the clear-voiced tenor Spencer Reese, who does double duty as choreographer of the show’s athletic ensemble numbers.

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DIARY: Wednesday, July 13, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. Pirates in Wooster, McGill/McHale Trio in Kent

. Nagy receives EMA award for SalonEra, Littler hangs up his notebook in Toronto

. Schoenberg and Maazel exit, Ben Franklin creates new instrument

ON TODAY:

At 2:00 pm Ohio Light Opera continues its run of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance with a special Kids Day performance in Wooster’s Freedlander Theatre. You can purchase tickets here.

At 7:30 pm this week’s Kent/Blossom Faculty Concert features Kulas Visiting Artist, the McGill/McHale Trio —  Anthony McGill, clarinet, Demarre McGill, flute and Michael McHale, piano. [Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, July 11, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. Charnofsky plays music your grandma wouldn’t know about from 2 to 4 on  WRUW, ChamberFest encores on WCLV at 8

. Cooper violin competition announces contestants for August in Oberlin, a new job for CMA’s Tom Welsh in Knoxville

. Anniversaries of outdoor concert series on both coasts

ON TODAY:

From 2 pm to 4 pm Eric Charnofsky’s “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music” features Paul Creston’s Choreografic Suite, Johanna Beyer’s Clusters for piano, Daniel Kessner Dances for Clarinet and Guitar, and music by Arvo Pärt, Felipe Perez Santiago, and Thomas Tomkins. Click here to listen to the internet feed from WRUW at Case Western Reserve University. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend of July 8-10, 2022 

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A checklist of weekend events (and a cancellation)

. Les Délices and Cleveland Pops announce seasons, news briefs from Chicago, Atlanta, and the opera-loving English countryside, and unearthing Ukraine’s cultural heritage

. Almanac: George Antheil enters the world

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

On Friday at 12:15 pm McGaffin carillonneur George Leggiero will strike the University Circle bells with music by Peter Paul Olejar celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of such American outdoor attractions as New York’s Central Park and the Wade Lagoon at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Music by Handel and a pair of 20th-century sarabandes too. Can’t make it in person? There’s also a live stream. [Read more…]

ChamberFest Cleveland:
“Timeless Explorations” (June 25)

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by Daniel Hathaway

The first piece of business at ChamberFest Cleveland’s June 25 concert in Mixon Hall at the Cleveland Institute of Music was rearranging the order of the program. “Timeless Explorations” was to have begun with a new piece, but probably for practical reasons involving a prepared piano, Yevgeniy Sharlat’s Dumka-22 and Beethoven’s Piano Trio, Op. 70, No. 2 traded places.

Violinist Diana Cohen, cellist Jonathan Swensen, and pianist Andrius Žlabys launched the sixth concert of ChamberFest’s tenth anniversary season with an effervescent performance of Beethoven’s least-performed trio. Bedecked with sparkling runs and ensemble flourishes and set in the gemütlich key of E-flat, the piece made an attractive opener and served as a lovely vehicle for the musicians to express their unassuming virtuosity.

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DIARY: Wednesday, July 6, 2022

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 by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S ENTRIES:

. News Briefs: Cuyahoga Arts & Culture and Assembly for the Arts receive $3.3 million from the American Rescue Plan Act

. Interesting Reads & Listens: canceling the “1812,” musical chairs at Westminster Abbey & St. John’s Cambridge, a conversation between Pierre van der Westhuizen and Aaron Dworkin

. Almanac: celebrating birthdays of Ashkenazy, Hartke, and Morricone

ON TODAY:

Ohio Light Opera continues its run of The Student Prince at 2:00 pm at Freedlander Theatre in Wooster. Purchase tickets here.

There are two concerts in Kent today at 7:30 pm.  [Read more…]

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 Alexi Kenney, cellist Jonathan Swensen, and pianist Andrius Žlabys 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…]

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