by Daniel Hathaway
Tonight at 7, No Exit New Music wraps up its Year of Surreality: Breaking the World at Heights Arts, and at 7:30 Leila Josefowicz joins The Cleveland Orchestra for Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto. Franz Welser-Möst fills out the program with Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, “Gran Partita,” and the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On May 23, 1885, Paraguayan composer Agustín Barrios Mangoré was born in San Bautista de las Misiones. The Cleveland Classical Guitar Society presented Paraguayan guitarist Berta Rojas in a 2020 online concert devoted to his music, including special guests Paquito D’Rivera (clarinet), Milagros Caliva (bandoneon), and Marcelo Enrique Barrios (the composer’s great-grandson). [Read more…]