by Daniel Hathaway
CONCERTS TODAY:
Today’s lunchtime Carillon Concert by George Leggiero in University Circle features the premier of Pilaster by Matthew Saunders, a piece written as part of a year-long partnership with the Cleveland Composers Guild. Read a preview article here.
Tonight at 7, CIM Opera Theater celebrates A Century of Singing at CIM, a Met-style gala concert featuring student and alumni singers with the Cleveland Institute of Music Orchestra performing opera favorites. And down the street at 7:30 pm, Czech guest conductor Jakub Hrůša, and British cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason join The Cleveland Orchestra for the second in a four-day home stand at Severance.
And jumping west into Lorain County, tonight’s Fridays @ Finney features the Oberlin Orchestra, Rafael Jiménez, conducting, in the premiere of Eclipse by Oberlin grad Theo Chandler (pictured), plus Ole Schmidt’s Hommage à Stravinsky (1985), and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2 in D (1901). You can also catch the performance via live stream. Click here.
NEWS BRIEFS:
PianoCleveland has announced the winner of the audience prize in its recent PianoFlicks video project competition. 8-year-old Aegean Niu of Perth, Australia, improvised a piece titled Beethoven’s Coronavirus. Watch it — and view all the other submissions — here.
INTERESTING INTERVIEW:
Last season, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music surprised the music industry by announcing its acquisition of Opus 3 Artists, one of the few surviving artist management firms. The new partnership raised important issues that SFCM President David Stull addresses in a Musical America One to One interview. (Stull was formerly Dean of the Oberlin Conservatory). Watch the interview with MA’s Susan Elliott here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On November 5, 1929, Ukrainian cellist Gregor Piatigorsky made his American debut at Oberlin College, an event announced in a New York Times article the month before. Oberlin seems to have scooped three major orchestras here, and it would be interesting to know more about that appearance.
On November, 5, 1989 Ukrainian-born pianist Vladimir Horowitz departed this life at the age of 85. His last public performance took place on June 21, 1987 in Hamburg. Click here to watch another performance on that same final concert tour, this one in the Goldener Saal of the Wiener Musikverein. Note the exuberant comments!
And November 5, 2012 marked the death of American composer Elliott Carter at the age of 103. Click here to read a New York Times appraisal of the ‘Master of Complexity’ by Anthony Tomassini.
