by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

.Cleveland Orchestra appoints Concertmaster

. Vocal music highlights this weekend’s concerts

. Thea Musgrave and Nikoli Sokoloff celebrate birthdays, and our suggestions of music for Memorial Day

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

A lot of vocal music and related activities are on hand this weekend. Check our Concert Listings page for program details and ticket information.

May 27 – Friday

At 10:30 am and 3:00 pm, the Art Song Festival will hold Master Classes with soprano Tamara Wilson and at 8:00 pm will present a recital by tenor David Portillo and pianist Craig Terry. All three events are in Mixon Hall at Cleveland Institute of Music. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Art Song Festival hosts a panel discussion about collaboration, two Bach cantatas in Oberlin’s Finney Chapel

. Almanac: Anniversaries of the debuts of two opera houses, and the birthday of soprano Beverly Sills

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 1:00 pm the Art Song Festival will hold a Panel Discussion, “Let’s Talk About Collaboration!” led by pianist Warren Jones, including a Q&A. Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music.  Free registration recommended.

Then at 7:30 pm on Wednesday evening, Ben Johns will direct the Oberlin Chamber Singers & Chamber Orchestra in  J.S. Bach’s cantatas BWV 4, Christ lag in Todes Banden, & BWV 140, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme in Finney Chapel. Click here to view the program, and if you can’t attend in person, click here to access a live stream. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Today’s events: Eric Charnofsky on WRUW, a duo cello recital at Harkness Chapel and Cleveland Art Song Festival gets underway

. In the News: a new opera at Spoleto USA and great reviews at home for The Cleveland Orchestra in the NY Times

. The Almanac: birthdays of Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Edmund Rubbra, Alicia de Larrocha, and Robert Moog.

TODAY’S EVENTS

From 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm today, tune in the radio broadcast of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music from WRUW at Case Western Reserve University with host Eric Charnofsky. His playlist includes works by New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn, Ottorino Respighi, Georges Auric, John Corigliano, and Swedish Festival Music by August Söderman. Click here to listen to the internet feed. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A bulging weekend concert calendar

. Almanac: Clara Schumann dies, Verdi’s Requiem receives its first performance, and Richard Wagner is born

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

There appears to be something for everyone this weekend, which offers music from the very old to the very new performed by chamber groups, choruses, and orchestras. Check our Concert Listings page for program details and ticket information.

MAY 20 – FRIDAY

At 11:00 am Franz Welser-Möst will lead The Cleveland Orchestra in Berg’s Lyric Suite and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 at Mandel Concert Hall, and almost next door at 12:15 pm, the McGaffin Carillon Springtime Concert & Live Stream will feature George Leggiero performing an all-Dutch program from the 17th and 20th centuries. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Third FranckFest Brownbag Concert caps the Noontime Concert Series at Trinity Cathedral & WCLV broadcasts joint April 5 ChamberFest Cleveland & Cleveland Chamber Music Society collaboration

. British organist and choirmaster Simon Preston dies at 83

. Interesting read: Composer Brett Dean discusses his Hamlet chord

. Almanac: Froberger, Böhm, Pinza, Fischer-Dieskau make debuts while Mahler and Anderson exit.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 12:00 pm the Trinity Cathedral Brownbag Concert Series wraps up its season as well as its three-concert César FranckFest with music in celebration of the Belgian composer’s 200th birthday. Nicole Keller & Todd Wilson, organ, Mark Laseter, tenor & Pam Kelly, cello. Chorale in b minor (Keller), Panis angelicus, Pastorale, Sortie l’Organiste & Chorale in E. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering. Hybrid concert will also be livestreamed and archived. [Read more…]

by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. The latest episode of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music

. Tuesday Musical’s 2022 Scholarship Competition Final Round/Winners Concert (winners pictured)

. A new production of Anthony Davis’s opera “X” opens in Detroit

. Almanac: composer Richard Wilson born in Cleveland.

TODAY’S EVENTS:

At 2:00 pm  – Eric Charnofsky hosts the weekly radio broadcast Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music. Today’s program includes the third symphony of David Diamond, Bright Sheng’s My Song for piano, Secret Ground for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello by Judith Shatin, George Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3, and Allegro di Concerto “Alla Mendelssohn” for double bass and piano by Giovanni Bottesini. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed. [Read more…]