By Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Holy Week listening (James MacMillan, pictured)
. Comings and goings
HAPPENING TODAY:
From 2 pm to 4 pm, Eric Charnofsky hosts the latest edition of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music, featuring Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Quintet No. 1 (string quartet and piano on the composer’s birthday), David Chesky’s Violin Concerto, James MacMillan’s Seven Last Words from the Cross (chorus and string orchestra) & Marcel Tournier’s By the Brook in the Woods (harp). Click here to listen to the internet feed: or tune in to 91.1 FM in the greater Cleveland area.
12:00 pm – Chamber Music in the Atrium Lunchtime Concert: Featuring outstanding young conservatory musicians from the Cleveland Institute of Music. Cleveland Museum of Art, 11150 East Blvd, Cleveland. Free.
INTERESTING VIDEOS:
This is Holy Week in the Christian calendar as well as the beginning of Passover in the Jewish tradition. There are no local performances of such Holy Week standards as the Passions, but Trinity Cathedral will mark Good Friday on April 7 with a performance of Brahms’ German Requiem in its original version with piano four hands. You can preview that performance by watching a video by the Tel-Aviv Collegium Singers with pianists Philip Lurie and Alexander Ivanov conducted by Yishai Steckler, recorded live at the Israeli Conservatory in Tel-Aviv in 2015. And Eric Charnofsky will play Scottish composer James MacMillan’s striking work, The Seven Last Words From the Cross on his Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music broadcast today. The work, commissioned by the BBC, was broadcast on seven adjacent evenings during Holy Week 1994. Click here for a playlist of the piece with score and analysis, and here for more information from the publisher, Boosey & Hawkes.
Passover suggestions are coming on Wednesday.
ALMANAC FOR APRIL 3:
Arrivals on this date include Italian-American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco in Florence (1895), and American pianist Garrick Ohlsson in Bronxville, NY (1948).
Those we lost include German composer Johannes Brahms from liver cancer in Vienna, age 63 (1897), British impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte at age 56 in London (1901), German composer Kurt Weil at age 50 (1950), and British tenor Peter Pears (1986).