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DIARY: Weekend, December 9 – 11, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. City Music & No Exit along with a load of holiday-themed concerts

. Remembering Franck and Messiaen (pictured) on their birth anniversaries

TODAYS EVENTS:

On  Friday the 9th at 7:30 at Lakewood Congregational Church, CityMusic Orchestra, led by guest conductor Stefan Willich, and featuring trumpeter Jack Sutte and soprano Chabrelle Williams, will perform Mozart’s Overture and “Deh vieni non tardar” from The Marriage of Figaro and Symphony No. 40 along wit Neruda’s Trumpet Concerto in E-flat, Verdi’s “Caro nome” from Rigoletto, and Puccini’s  “O Mio Babbino Caro” from Gianni Schicchi. The program will be repeated on Saturday the 10th at 7:30 at the Shrine Church of St. Stanislaus, and Sunday the 11th at 3 at Federated Church. All performances are free.

Also on Friday. No Exit New Music will present a 7:30 concert at Kent State University’s Ludwig Recital Hall that includes three world premieres: David Glaser’s Aurora II, Max Friedman’s Butter-Iider, and Frank Wiley’s The Dream of Sisyphus, along with Henry Cowell’s The Banshee and Tiger, and Ladislav Kubik’a Nocturnes. Read a preview article here. The concert is free. [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, December 8, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Assembly for the Arts’ 1:00 session on the Arts & Economic Prosperity 6 study, and concerts this evening by Apollo’s Fire, Singers’ Club, The Cleveland Orchestra, and CityMusic

•Interesting read: the effects of music (including improv) on dementia in “the here and now”

•Almanac: the Christmas carols of Jean Sibelius

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DIARY: Wednesday, December 7, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Britten at Trinity at noon, Apollo’s Fire and Trio Mediaeval in Lakewood and at CMA tonight

. Oberlin Orchestra concert available for replay

TODAYS EVENTS:

Today at Noon at Trinity Cathedral the high voices of the Cathedral Choir and harpist Jody Guinn will present Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols. Freewill offering.

At 7:00 pm, Apollo’s Fire and Jeannette Sorrrell will continue their run of performances of Handel’s Messiah at  Lakewood United Methodist Church. Sopranos Sonya Headlam and Erica Schuller, mezzo-sopranos Amanda Crider and Kim Leeds, tenor Steven Caldicott Wilson, and baritone Edward Vogel are the soloists. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

DIARY: Tuesday, December 6, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

. Today: Case Historic Performance Department at the Covenant, and Apollo’s Fire does Messiah

. Composers in the news: Reena Esmail (pictured), Julian Anderson, and Tania León

. Almanac: Bright Sheng, Lead Belly, Dave Brubeck, and the history of jazz at Oberlin

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today’s Tuesday Noon Organ Plus Concert from Church of the Covenant features the Case Historic Performance Department in music by Johann Gottfried Goldberg, Jean-Féry Rebel, and Handel — a composer who stands on his own at 7 tonight when Jeannette Sorrell and Apollo’s Fire present Messiah at Federated Church in Chagrin Falls. A freewill offering will be taken up at the Covenant, while tickets are available here for Apollo’s Fire.

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DIARY: Monday, December 5, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Exploring new repertory with WRUW’s Eric Charnofsky

. Cleveland Orchestra joins Symphony Live, proposes 12-days of Christmas gift list

. Should other minds complete great unfinished musical works?

TODAYS EVENTS:

Explore off-the-beaten-track music from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm with host Eric Charnofsky on “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music,” including Kazuo Fukushima’s Mei for solo flute, Louis Andriessen’s Facing Death transcribed for saxophone quartet, Michael Kurek’s Moon Canticle for harp, Pamela Decker’s Flores del Desierto (Tangos for Organ), Julius Röntgen’s Sonata in E for violin and piano, and a realization of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10, a single movement piece assembled from sketches by Dr. Barry Cooper. To connect, click here, or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

QUICK LINKS:

Cleveland Orchestra joins Symphony Live and suggests a 12 Days of Christmas gift list. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend December 2-4, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway & Mike Telin

IN THIS EDITION:

. So many events both holiday-themed and otherwise! Helpfully, most will receive more than a single performance, widening your choices

. Weekend Almanac: remembering anniversaries of Vincent d’Indy & William Grant Still

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

The Cleveland Orchestra will present their final classical concerts before Holiday events swing into action. On Friday at 11:00 am and on Saturday at 8:00 pm Vasily Petrenko will lead Elgar’s Cockaigne (“In London Town”), Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2 with Behzod Abduraimov as soloist, and Walton’s Symphony No. 1. Tickets are available online. [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, December 1, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

. Tonight: contemporary chamber music, choir, and orchestra

. Cleveland Orchestra news, and in the news

. Almanac: the circumstances behind Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra

HAPPENING TODAY:

This evening presents three varied options.

At 7:00 pm, No Exit heads to Praxis Fiber Gallery in Cleveland for a program that includes world premieres by David Glaser, Frank Wiley, and Max Friedman, as well as music by Henry Cowell. And there’s a special guest: pianist Shuai Wang (pictured), who will be featured in Cowell’s Tiger. Admission is free.

At 7:30, Jay White leads Quire Cleveland in the twelfth edition of the “Carols for Quire” programs, this one titled “Angels and Shepherds.” The free program takes place at Our Lady of Peace Church in Cleveland. Read a preview article by Mike Telin here.

And at that same hour, Vasily Petrenko will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in a concert that features Behzod Abduraimov in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program: Edward Elgar’s Cockaigne (In London Town) and William Walton’s Symphony No. 1. Get tickets here.

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DIARY: Wednesday, November 30, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. The Wednesday Noon Brownbag Concert at Trinity features Todd Wilson’s CIM organ studio & Ólafsson solo piano recital in Reinberger Chamber Music Hall at Severance

. Tuesday Musical announces annual scholarship competition

. Elizabethan madrigalist Thomas Weelkes passes in 1623

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12:00 pm – Trinity Brownbag Concert. Organist Todd Wilson & students of the Cleveland Institute of Music organ studio. Festive seasonal music played on Trinity’s two great pipe organs. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering.

At 7:30 pm – pianist Vìkingur Ólafsson (pictured above) will play a long list of short pieces by Mozart & his contemporaries in Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center, including works by Galuppi, C.P.E. Bach, Cimarosa, and Haydn and arrangements by Liszt and Ólafsson himself. Take a deep breath and order your tickets online.

IN THE NEWS:

Tuesday Musical’s 2023 Annual Scholarship Competition is Saturday, March 18, with significantly increased cash awards. Applications will be accepted online from January 1 through January 31, 2023. [Read more…]

DIARY: Tuesday, November 29, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: organist Jonathan Moyer at the Covenant

•Tonight: Oberlin ensembles preview U.N. performance

•All-Italian Almanac: Donizetti’s joyful high C’s, a cavernous bass role from Monteverdi, and tearjerking Puccini

HAPPENING TODAY:

At noon, the Church of the Covenant’s Tuesday Noon Organ Plus series will feature Jonathan Moyer performing on both the Newberry Organ (music by J.S. Bach) and the Chancel Organ (works by C.H.H. Parry, David Conte, and Charles-Marie Widor). A freewill offering will be taken up.

And at 7:30, Raphael Jiménez will lead three Oberlin ensembles — the Orchestra, Musical Union, and College Choir — in music by Adolphus Hailstork, Sergei Rachmaninoff, and Beethoven at Finney Chapel. It’s a program with a little extra significance in that it will be repeated for the 77th United Nations General Assembly at Carnegie Hall on December 2. It’s free.

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DIARY: Monday, November 28, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky’s Ned Rorem tribute

. Jean-Baptiste Lully makes his debut

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today’s program from Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, hosted by Eric Charnofsky, commemorates the life of Ned Rorem (1923-2022) with selections of his music for voice and piano, choir, orchestral, and chamber ensemble, along with the reading of inspiring and incisive Rorem quotes. Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

LOOKING AHEAD TO MIDWEEK:

On Wednesday at 7:30 pm – pianist Vìkingur Ólafsson (pictured above) will play a wide-ranging program of music by Mozart and his contemporaries in Reinberger Chamber Hall at Severance Music Center. [Read more…]

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