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DIARY: Monday, February 6, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Today: Charnofsky spins underplayed classical music, Rocky River Chamber Music Society presents the Butler Piano Trio

. R.I.P. legendary Ohio arts advocate and patron William P. Blair III (pictured)

. A reminder, & broadcaster Karl Haas remembered in today’s Almanac

HAPPENING TODAY: 

From 2-4 pm, Eric Charnofsky hosts Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, featuring works by Dorothy Hindman, Malcolm Arnold, George Crumb Adrienne Albert, Carl Vollrath & selections from the album “Come, Gentle Night” –  Music of Shakespeare’s World. Click here to listen to the internet feed or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

Tonight at 7:30 pm, Rocky River Chamber Music Society presents the Butler Piano Trio (Sandy Yamamoto, violin, Joshua Gindele, cello & Colette Valentine, piano, with Lembi Veskimets, viola) in Rachmaninov’s Trio Élégiaque No. 1 in g, Beethoven’s Piano Trio in D, Op. 70, No. 1 “Ghost,” and Robert Schumann’s Piano Quartet in E flat, Op. 47 at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Rocky River. Free. Attend in-person free, or click here for a live stream. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, February 3-5, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Opportunities to hear multiple performances of the same program around the region.

. Mäkelä conducts & coaches cellists, Tuesday Musical extends scholarship deadline

. Almanac remembers Mendelsssohn, Dallapiccola, Alain & Leinsdorf

HAPPENING THIS WEEKEND: 

Apollo’s Fire visits early Baroque instrumental & vocal works by Franz Biber and his contemporaries, featuring violinist Alan Choo (Friday & Saturday in Cleveland Hts., Sunday in Rocky River).

The Cleveland Orchestra welcomes Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä back for music by Norman, Debussy & Ravel (Fri, Sat & Sun), and Mäkelä appears in his alter ego as a cellist (pictured) to teach a Cleveland Cello Society master class on Saturday morning. [RESCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 AT 7:00 PM]

New music ensemble No Exit joins forces with its Twin Cities cousins Zeitgeist on  Friday (Spaces Gallery), and Saturday (Heights Arts).  [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, February 2, 2023

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Tonight: Apollo’s Fire, Verona Quartet, Cleveland Orchestra, No Exit with Zeitgeist, and a TMA Black History Month concert

•News: Applications for EMA’s Emerging Artists Showcase, and the latest from Canton Symphony’s Orchestrating Change

•Almanac: Kreisler & Heifetz, Oppens & Harrison, and Palestrina

HAPPENING TODAY:

Five concerts fill the schedule tonight. You can choose between two events in Akron (Apollo’s Fire in a chamber program titled “Muse of Fire,” and a Tuesday Musical Association concert celebrating Black History Month), one in Oberlin (the Verona Quartet), and two in Cleveland (The Cleveland Orchestra, and the combination of No Exit and St. Paul-based Zeitgeist). Pictured above: pianist Damien Sneed, who is part of the TMA program.

Read our previews of the Apollo’s Fire and No Exit concerts at those links, and find all the details you need in our Concert Listings.

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DIARY Wednesday, February 1, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Four interesting events, all FREE!

. 91st BW Bach Festival

. Competition winners and chamber music encounters

. Giacomo Puccini and George Walker have premieres

HAPPENING TODAY: 

At 12 Noon, the spring series of BrownBag Concerts at Trinity will feature Dancing Wheels — “Art in motion, celebrating the spirit of dance” (pictured). Trinity Cathedral. Free.

At 6:30, you can join Piano Cleveland Live at Phunkenship. Performers include Gastón Frydman, Yaron Kohlberg, and Rachel Brown,“The Honky Tonk Queen of Cleveland.” Free. [Read more…]

DIARY: Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: organist Jonathan Moyer at noon

•Performance opportunities: Tuesday Musical Scholarship Competition reminder and an invitation from the YSU Pep Band 

•Internship and volunteer postings from Piano Cleveland and Assembly for the Arts

•Almanac: overlap between Franz Schubert, Philip Glass, and Mario Lanza, and performances of Schubert this week in Northeast Ohio

HAPPENING TODAY:

At 12:00, organist Jonathan Moyer will perform on the Church of the Covenant’s Tuesday Noon series, bringing with him a program titled “Lumen Christi.” It includes music by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Böhm, Olivier Messiaen, Jehan Alain, and Jean Langlais. A freewill offering will be taken up. See our Concert Listings for details.

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DIARY Monday, January 30, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Charnofsky hosts two long works on Monday program

. The Almanac notes the demise of Franncis Poulenc

HAPPENING TODAY: 

2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, hosted by Eric Charnofsky, featuring two major mid-20th century works: Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s Symphony in F-sharp, Op. 40 & Herbert Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi. Click here to listen to the internet feed or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.

ALMANAC FOR JANUARY 30:

January 30 marks the death of French composer Francis Poulenc (pictured) in Paris in 1963. [Read more…]

DIARY: Weekend, January 27 – 29, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. Repeating and one-off events including the world premiere of a new opera

. International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Gideon Klein

. Bits & pieces from classical music history

THIS WEEKEND’S EVENTS:

Keep an ear out for repeating events this weekend: you have three opportunities each to catch the debuts of Oberlin Winter Term Opera’s Alice Tierney and Trobár Medieval’s program, “Daughters of Light.”

CityMusic Cleveland’s Baroque Ensemble features “Music in the Time of Goya” on Friday, and Saturday’s lineup includes Cleveland Jazz Orchestra and the Musical Theater Project’s tribute to Johnny Mercer and his collaborators, and Cuban and Spanish music by René Izquierdo on the Cleveland Classical Guitar Society’s International Series. [Read more…]

DIARY: Thursday, January 26, 2023

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•News: Cleveland Orchestra announces $1 million gift from the late Gay Cull Addicott (pictured)

•Interesting read: tenor Limmie Pulliam talks to the Times about his 12-year break from the industry

•Almanac: when to premiere an opera (seemingly on January 26), and listening to du Pré play Elgar

IN THE NEWS:

Earlier this week, The Cleveland Orchestra announced a $1 million gift to its general endowment, establishing the Gay Cull Addicott and Robert R. Cull Fund. The gift comes from the estate of the late Gay Cull Addicott, a Cleveland Orchestra trustee who served for twenty years and was appointed “Trustee for Life” on the Orchestra’s board. She passed away in August of 2022. Read an obituary here.

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DIARY: Tuesday, January 24, 2023

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by Jarrett Hoffman

IN THIS EDITION:

•Today: Jonathan Moyer at Church of the Covenant, and Piano Cleveland Social Club at Forest City Brewery

•Xavier Foley, Ben Roidl-Ward, and Molly Joyce (pictured) in the news

•Almanac: a pair of Pulitzer winners in Norman Dello Joio and Leon Kirchner

HAPPENING TODAY:

Organist Jonathan Moyer is featured today on the Church of the Covenant’s Tuesday Noon Organ Plus series. The program includes works by Dietrich Buxtehude, Johann Adam Reincken, J.S. Bach, and Felix Mendelssohn. A freewill offering will be taken up.

6:30 pm brings a different type of musical event: a meeting of the Piano Cleveland Social Club at Forest City Brewery. Click here if you’re interested.

You can find more details about both events in our Concert Listings.

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DIARY Monday, January 23, 2023

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by Daniel Hathaway

IN THIS EDITION:

. A decade of “not necessarily standard repertoire” on WRUW

. In the Almanac: interesting dates to note in the lives of Dvořák, MacDowell, Ellington, John Luther Adams, Paul Robeson, Mason Bates & Samuel Barber, including a Barber premiere that drew Mike Telin deep into the Cleveland Orchestra archives

HAPPENING TODAY:

Today from 2 to 4pm, WRUW celebrates the 10th anniversary of Eric Charnofsky’s Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, with a selection of some of the programmer’s favorite works that are “not necessarily standard repertoire.” Featured music includes Paul Hindemith’s The Four Temperaments (piano and orchestra), Samuel Barber’s Excursions (solo piano), Igor Stravinsky’s Agon (orchestra), Aaron Copland’s Piano Variations, plus music by Lukas Foss and André Jolivet. Click here to listen to the internet feed or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area

ALMANAC FOR JANUARY 23:

This date in 1894 saw the first performance of Antonin Dvorák’s own arrangement of Stephen Foster’s Old Folks at Home with vocal soloists Sissierette Jones and Harry T. Burleigh at a  concert of African American choral music at Madison Square Concert Hall in NYC.  [Read more…]

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