by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. The concert calendar has an expansive list of performances.
. Almanac: This weekend’s births include Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan, Otto Klemperer, and Claudio Monteverdi.
THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:
There appears to be something for everyone this weekend, which offers music from the very old to the very new played by chamber groups, choruses, orchestras, brass and percussion ensembles, and soloists. Check our Concert Listings page for details. [Read more…]
by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Today’s schedule: Cleveland Orchestra, Oberlin Performance & Improvisation, and Youngstown Symphony
•A job opening at BW, English National Opera treating long COVID, and a profile of three South Asian early-music vocalists including Sherezade Panthaki
•Almanac: imagining a joint-birthday party for Giovanni Viotti, Jules Massenet, Gabriel Fauré, and Wu Fei, speculating over who would get along and who wouldn’t, at least until dessert
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Hybrid concerts from Trinity Cathedral and the Maltz
. Guitar Festival and Stroud Competition go live at CIM
. One composer to be remembered, another best forgotten.
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Two series continue today. At Noon, Trinity Cathedral lights more of the 200 candles on Belgian composer César Franck’s birthday gateau, with performances of his Organ Chorale No. 3 by Nicole Keller and Prélude, Fugue et Variation by Josh Kraybill on the recently installed Skinner organ, as well as perhaps his best-known chamber work, the Violin Sonata, to be played by Andrew Sords and Elizabeth DeMio.
Tonight at 7:30 at the Maltz Performing Arts Center, PianoCleveland hosts pianist Jonathan Biss (pictured) in “The Mind of Beethoven,” an episode in its Listening Series that will zero in on the composer’s often puzzling late sonatas. [Read more…]
by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Baritone Edward Vogel and pianist Alex Lenhart at Church of the Covenant at noon
•News: Re:Sound tickets on sale, Guitar Society students in podcast music, the Black Orchestral Network addresses American orchestras, and Raven Chacon (pictured) wins the Pulitzer Prize
•Almanac: Max Steiner and King Kong
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Today’s concert listings page lists two events of note
. In the News: ENCORE Chamber Music announces summer events
. The Almanac: Buxtehude exits, Horowitz returns
TODAY’S EVENTS:
At 2:00 pm Eric Charnofsky brings you the latest edition of his Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music on Program on WRUW FM 91.1. The program includes the Piano Sonata by Paul Dukas, Anton Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, the Sonata for solo violin by Béla Bartók transcribed for viola, and a sonata for flute and basso continuo by Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht. Click here to listen to the internet feed.
At 7:30 pm at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society will present the Grigoryan Brothers Duo (Australia, pictured), Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, classical guitar.
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. An extensive list of concert choices
. In the News: Cleveland Orchestra tour and recording, Curtis Institute tries out an immersive orchestra concert experience
. Almanac: Composers George Perle and Victoria Bond celebrate birthdays and Johann Sebastian Bach meets Prussian King Frederick II in Potsdam
THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:
With Mother’s Day weekend upon us, there’s plenty of live music in the area to add a little something special to the celebration. Here are our choices of concerts that offer a diverse selection of ensembles and musical styles — and many are free. Check our Concert Listings page for details. [Read more…]
by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Today: the Sonny Rollins Jazz Ensemble outside at the Allen
•News: the purchase of the Variety Theatre, local singer bows out of American Idol after reaching the Top 10, the genesis of Mazel Tov Cocktail Party, and a change at Tafelmusik
•Almanac: the opening of Carnegie Hall, and 100 years later the premiere of Joan Tower’s Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 3 — at Carnegie
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Trinity FranckFest, Gordon square postcards, Tuesday Musical on Wednesday: “genre bending transformations” from Nu Deco Ensemble
. Jeremy Denk webinar
. Precursors of the grand piano, the phonograph record, and the international orchestral tour
TODAY’S EVENTS:
Today at Noon, Trinity Cathedral begins its celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of “French composer” César Franck with two of his organ works played by Nicole Keller and Josh Kraybill, and his Violin Sonata performed by Andrew Sords and pianist Elizabeth DeMio. [Read more…]
by Jarrett Hoffman
IN THIS EDITION:
•Trumpet and organ at Church of the Covenant this afternoon, and Takács Quartet with a guest at the Cleveland Chamber Music Society tonight
•News: the Final Round / Winners Concert for the Tuesday Musical Scholarship Competition, and The Cleveland Orchestra’s MLK Celebration and Honoring Black Composers program
•Heinrich Biber, using the company card to jet off for a new job, so to speak
by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Kent State mega-concert at Severance tonight marks 1970 shootings
. May Day follow-ups: Magdalen Choir goes live again, lay clerks trounce choristers
. Almanac: Haydn’s Creation debuts in Vienna
TODAY’S FEATURED EVENT:
Tonight’s 7 pm performance at Severance by some 300 Kent State School of Music and University students will commemorate the tragic Kent State shootings of May 4, 1970 through “Stories of Peace, Protest, and Reflection.” [Read more…]