by Daniel Hathaway
Tonight at 7 in Berea, Baldwin Wallace’s FOCUS Festival features the compositions of Omar Thomas, and CityMusic Cleveland continues its chamber music series, Landscape of Memory at Praxis FIber Workshop.
At 7:30 at Severance Music Center, The Cleveland Orchestra plays the live underscore for a screening of the 1987 “fantasy comedy adventure film,” The Princess Bride, and Apollo’s Fire presents the second of four performances of “Sacred Mysteries: Biber’s Rosary Sonatas for Violin” featuring Alan Choo at St. Paul’s in Cleveland Hts.
Then at 8, Oberlin Conservatory hosts Part II of The Danenberg Honors Recital in Warner Concert Hall.
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TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1938, American composer John Corigliano (pictured above) was born in New York City, the son of John Sr., who served for 23 years as concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic. Although he came late to composition, Corigliano was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, five Grammy Awards, the Grawemeyer Award, and an Oscar. [Read more…]