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DIARY: Monday, March 14, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

ON TODAY:

This week’s episode of Eric Charnofsky’s “Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music” on WRUW radio from Case celebrates the birthday of Telemann, and includes a Monteverdi madrigal, a J.S. Bach Cello Suite performed on double bass, excerpts from Handel’s musical ode Alexander’s Feast, and a Divertissement by Lully. Click here to listen to the internet feed.

New York’s Metropolitan Opera is hosting a 70-minute Concert for Ukraine tonight at 6:00 pm, featuring its singers, orchestra, and chorus (pictured) led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin in music by Valentin Silvestrov, Barber, Verdi, and Richard Strauss, culminating in the finale from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi will lead the Met Chorus in a performance of the Ukrainian national anthem. Click here at start time for the free internet stream (audio only). [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend March 12-13, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

This weekend’s entries:

• Concerts at Oberlin, Severance Music Center, and Kent State, and on the road in Fairlawn and Coventry Village

• Coverage of reactions by the classical music community to the Russian invasion of Ukraine from The Violin Channel, and report of a construction miracle for the New York Philharmonic (Thank you, pandemic)

• Marking the birthdate of American choral conductor and composer Hall Johnson [Read more…]

DIARY: Friday, March 11, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

Today’s entries:

• Cleveland Orchestra matinee, piano concerts at Fine Arts Willoughby and U. of Akron, Chinese traditional music for sheng at CMA

• Touching announcement by Michael Tilson Thomas, controversial cancellation in Montréal

• A single summer concert brings today’s Almanac celebrations of Mendelssohn, J.S. Bach, Bobby McFerrin — and a large outdoor crowd — together in the Marketplace in Leipzig [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, March 10, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Concerts this evening from The Cleveland Orchestra, Oberlin faculty, Youngstown Symphony, and No Exit

•News briefs: Bop Stop trumpeters, Severance safety policy

•In the industry: arts organizations reconsidering their COVID rules, and heading to court to receive relief funds

•Almanac: John Harbison on writing for orchestra

[Read more…]

DIARY: Wednesday, March 9, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

12:00 pm – Trinity Brownbag Concert: Music and Meditation. Todd Wilson & Nicole Keller, organ & piano. Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Freewill offering. Hybrid concert will also be livestreamed.

NEWS BRIEFS:

Every day brings news of the latest fallout for Russian artists from Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Catch up with this story (“Conductors Stand Down from Posts Amidst Russian Invasion”) on the Violin Channel. [Read more…]

DIARY: Tuesday, March 8, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•On the calendar: a period-instrument trio, and solo piano plus electronics

•MLK Community Chorus visits the Cavs, and competition news from Cleveland Chamber Choir

•An article about cultural institutions facing decisions about presenting Russian art and artists

•Almanac: Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, and a musical memorial offered by flutist and composer Hong-Da Chin

[Read more…]

DIARY: Monday, March 7, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

TODAY’S EVENTS:

No live performances to raise up today, but Eric Charnofsky will host an homage to Ukraine on his WRUW radio show Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music from 2 pm to 4 pm, and at 7:30 pm, Les Délices will revisit works by women composers across the centuries in “Women’s Herstory,” the latest episode in its SalonEra series. Details in our Concert Listings.

TODAY’S ALMANAC:

English composer Henry Purcell may have been born on this date in 1659 (records are sketchy, to say the least), and in his brief 36-year career distinguished himself in a large body of music written both for church and theater after the restoration of the monarchy.

One of Purcell’s most popular works is his Dido and Aeneas, with a libretto by Nahum Tate based on Book IV of Virgil’s Aeneid. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, March 5 & 6, 2022

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by Daniel Hathaway

This weekend’s entries:

• Orchestra concerts by Contemporary Youth Orchestra, BlueWater Chamber Orchestra, Canton Symphony, Cleveland Philharmonic Akron Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, and Lakeland Civic Orchestra. Choral performances by Quire Cleveland and West Shore Chorale. Chamber music with tenor Mark Padmore & pianist Mitsuko Uchida (pictured), Amici String Quartet with clarinetist Afendi Yusuf, and Desert Island ensemble. And Jazz with the Tri-C Gallery All-Stars.

• Interesting read — the reinstallation of the largest organ on the west coast

• Almanac: marking the founding of Steinway in New York, the birthday of the late hornist Barry Tuckwell, the departure of Zoltán Kodály, and the anniversary of Rimsky-Korsakov’s completion of The Flight of the Bumblebee

ON DECK THIS WEEKEND:

Numerous orchestras are making early spring appearances this weekend. [Read more…]

DIARY: Friday, March 4, 2022

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by Mike Telin

In today’s issue:

  • Concerts by carillonneur George Leggiero, The Cleveland Orchestra, Oberlin Orchestra, and Quire Cleveland.
  • Herbert Blomsted discusses the opening of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony.
  • The Cleveland Orchestra debuts the next installment of their In Focus series, DANCECleveland  performance to feature pianist Simone Dinnerstein, and Anna Netrebko will not appear at the Metropolitan Opera this season or next.
  • Almanac: We celebrate the births of Antonio Vivaldi and MarioDavidovsky.

FRIDAY’S CONCERTS:

At 12:15 pm carillonneur George Leggiero performs a McGaffin Carillon Concert and Live Stream in support of the People of Ukraine. The concert is one of many from the 680 carillons worldwide this weekend. [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, March 3, 2022

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: The Cleveland Orchestra features soprano Latonia Moore (pictured), and the Silver Hall series presents the Case Camerata Chamber Orchestra

•In the Industry: postcard campaigns for arts funding in Cleveland, a recent conversation at the Bop Stop, and a date for the Ohio Arts Professionals Network

•Educational opportunities from The Music Settlement, Piano Cleveland, and Tri-C

•Articles about cultural exchange and politics during wartime

•Our almanac, featuring Margaret Bonds and her partnerships with Florence Price and Langston Hughes

[Read more…]

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