By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky unveils more underplayed music

. Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project reveals plans for RE:Sound Festival in June

. J.S. Bach’s birthday and the first day of spring inspire a listen to two of his secular cantatas

HAPPENING TODAY:

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music: hosted by Eric Charnofsky. Featured music —Augusta Read Thomas’s Angel Tears; Earth Prayers (saxophone and organ), Arnold Bax’s selected art songs for baritone and orchestra, Melinda Wagner’s Concerto for Flute, Strings, and Percussion, George Rochberg’s String Quartet No. 5 & Annie Gosfield’a The Harmony of the Body-Machine (cello and static/machine noise). Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

IN THE NEWS:

The Cleveland Orchestra has announced details of its 2023-2024 Severance Music Center Season. Click here to view the schedule.

Following its annual Scholarship Competition on March 17, Tuesday Musical has announced the winners of its 2023 awards. Click here to read the announcement. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Weekend performances feature clarinetist Daniel Gilbert (pictured) & Bernstein’s score to West Side Story

. Piano Cleveland announces “Dynamic Duos,: CIM to honor Anne Midgette at Commencement

. Almanac: a varied list of people & performances to commemorate, including George Crumb’s Voice of the Whale

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND: 

Multiple performances: Dan Gilbert is featured with CityMusic Cleveland in “The Visionary Clarinet” (Fri. in Lakewood, Sat. at St. Stanislaus, Sun. in Willoughby Hills) & led by Brett Mitchell, The Cleveland Orchestra plays Leonard Bernstein’s score along with screenings of West Side Story (complete film, Fri., Sat. & Sun.) [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Haewon Song and Robert Shannon (pictured) perform in Oberlin, Daniel Gilbert plays Golijov with CityMusic

. The Cleveland Orchestra adds a free concert, CIM seeks Academy students

. The Almanac reports a mixed list of arrivals and departures

HAPPENING TODAY: 

At 7:30 pm Oberlin faculty pianists Haewon Song and Robert Shannon play Schubert, Messiaen, Mozart, Khachaturian & Pabst’s Paraphrase de Concert sur l’opera on Eugene Oneguine de P. Tchaikovsky in Warner Concert Hall. Oberlin Conservatory, 43 South Professor St, Oberlin. Free. Click here for live stream.

Also at 7:30 pm, CityMusic begins its run of concerts titled The Visionary Clarinet. Klezmer, classicism and Jewish melodies swirl together in Golijov’s The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, performed by Daniel Gilbert. The Temple — Tifereth Israel, 26000 Shaker Blvd., Beachwood. Free. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Concerts at Trinity and CMA feature young performers

. BBC shoots itself in the foot

. Milestones: Lili Boulanger, My Fair Lady

HAPPENING TODAY ONLINE  & IN PERSON:

At 12 noon on the Brownbag Concert Series at Trinity Cathedral, the Choirs of Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights perform a varied program of choral music led by Performing Arts department chair Laura Webster. The concert can be enjoyed in person or watched via live stream. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Is Bach for everyone? (Nicholas Phan asks)

. Rarities from CWRU courtesy of Eric Charnofsky, New Morse Code in Rocky River

. Two titans of the art song share an Almanac date

HAPPENING TODAY ONLINE  & IN PERSON:

Released today: Les Délices — SalonEra 3.6: BACH 52. SalonEra partners with GRAMMY-nominated tenor Nicholas Phan to probe the question “Is Bach’s music for everyone?.” Drawing on tenor arias and interviews captured for Phan’s BACH 52 project, Nicholas, Debra Nagy, and a range of community members reckon with the complex social history of Bach’s music as well as its enduring resonance in their lives. Available online and as a podcast through June 30, 2023. Click here. [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A long list of multiple & single performances

. The acoustic of Notre-Dame in Paris, an interactive experience from the New York Times

. Almanac entries: anniversaries of Honegger, Mendelssohn’s revival of Bach’s Matthew-Passion and a Leipzig summer extravaganza featuring Bobby McFerrin on his birthday, remembering Nijinski (pictured)

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND:

Multiple performances: The Cleveland Orchestra’s Mozart Requiem (Fri, Sat, Sun afternoon), Oberlin Opera’s Candide (director Jonathan Field’s last production, Fri, Sat, Sun afternoon).

Single performances on Friday: Apollo’s Fire’s Exile – Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas (in Cleveland Hts.), Youngstown Symphony: Musical Titans & electric violinist and vocal master L Shankar (Cleveland Museum of Art). [Read more…]

By Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Apollo’s Fire launches series of music of the Jewish & African Diasporas

. Architect of CMA’s Atrium passes in New York

. Jarrett Hoffman considers International Women’s Day

. Almanac: Many milestones, but a focus on William Walton, his violin concerto, and The Cleveland Orchestra

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today at 7:30 pm at Bath Church, Apollo’s Fire begins its run of Exile – Music of the Jewish & African Diasporas, celebrating the interwoven connections of the Sephardic, Ashkenazy, Palestinian, and African traditions. Conceived and directed by Jeannette Sorrell & featuring mezzo-soprano Rachel Weston, tenors Jacob Perry & Haitham Haidar & baritone Jeffrey Strauss with Daphna Mor, recorder, ney & vocals. [Read more…]