by Daniel Hathaway
Friday’s calendar is loaded!
The Cleveland Orchestra plays an 11 am matinee with conductor Klaus Mäkelä and cello soloist Sol Gabetta, Lake View Cemetery honors Adella Prentiss Hughes with clarinet quintets at 6pm, the 92nd Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival begins with a concert by ACRONYM (pictured) at 7:30, the Cleveland Art Museum presents Aleksandra Vrebalov’s evening-length work Antennae, inspired by an icon in its collection, Les Délices takes its “Seasons Transformed” to Akron Civic Theater at 7:30, Oberlin Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble mix Shostakovich’s 9th Symphony with a concerto for Cello and Jazz Band at 7:30, and Cleveland Pops Orchestra brings Broadway to Severance Center at 8 pm.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
By Jarrett Hoffman
On this date in 1907, British composer, writer and conductor Imogen Holst was born in Richmond on the Thames river west of London. She wrote music sporadically in between assisting her father, the composer Gustav Holst (she published his biography in 1938), and later served as Benjamin Britten’s assistant at the Aldeburgh Festival in Sussex beginning in 1950. Click here to watch a short film, shot in her former home in Aldeburgh and presented by Dr. Lucy Walker (Head of Public Engagement at Britten Pears Arts), which celebrates her life in music, and features movements from one of her most beautiful works, Fall of the Leaf for solo cello, performed by Wallis Power.”
Imogen Holst is unaccountably missing from most discussions of women composers. Click here to visit the web page of The Holst Project, “which consists of 375 boxes of material comprising the personal papers, correspondence, working files, music manuscripts and published music of Imogen Holst. Imogen was passionate about her father’s musical legacy and collected many of his papers during her life. As a result the collection includes important papers, correspondence and music manuscripts of her father, Gustav.”
And click here to watch a video of a performance of her Phantasy Quartet by the London Conchord Ensemble on the 2013 BBC Proms from Cadogan Hall, London.