by Daniel Hathaway
STREAMING TODAY:
Check our Concert Listings for times and details of today’s scheduled streaming events: Cleveland Opera Theater’s Opera-101 Online and master classes, the CIM Orchestra in David Skidmore’s Trying, the Akron Symphony’s new Radio Hour (Benjamin Zander conducting Mahler’s ‘Resurrection” Symphony), the Brahms Requiem (two-piano version) from New York’s Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, and the Met Opera’s HD video of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers.
And note these on-demand videos that have just come online:
Apollo’s Fire’s Music for the Soul, Passover Edition – full “O Jerusalem!” concert from the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 2020.
Baldwin Wallace’s Virtual Concert Series: Surrounded by Sound featuring Met Opera diva Jennifer Rowley, soprano.
The Cleveland Orchestra on PBS Great Performances: Gala Centennial Concert from September, 2018, Franz Welser-Möst conducting, with pianist Lang Lang. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24, Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten: Symphonic Fantasy, and Ravel’s La Valse. Click here to view until April 14.
TODAY’S FEATURED VIDEO:
Several 18th century composers tried to represent chaos in music. While Haydn’s overture to The Creation is the most famous, Jean-Féry Rebel’s “Le Chaos” also sails close to the wind harmonically. Cleveland’s Les Délices sends this message today: “The world may seem chaotic right now — but we’ll find joy and new meaning in it where we can. Rebel created order from Chaos in his Les Élémens. Enjoy this performance from April 2019 with Kathie Stewart, flute, Debra Nagy, baroque oboe, Anna Marsh, baroque bassoon, Julie Andrijeski and Jessica Park, violins, Steuart Pincombe and Jaap ter Linden, violas da gamba, and Mark Edwards, harpsichord.”
INTERESTING READ:
VAN Magazine writes, “When the curtain finally lifts on concert restrictions, a new world will start coming into focus. And while it’s impossible to predict the future, here are 19 things we think will be different — based on over a dozen conversations with people across the music world.” Read Predicting Tectonic Changes in Classical Music by Jeffrey Arlo Brown, Timmy Fisher, and Hartmut Welscher here.