by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. The latest episode of Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music
. Tuesday Musical’s 2022 Scholarship Competition Final Round/Winners Concert (winners pictured)
. A new production of Anthony Davis’s opera “X” opens in Detroit
. Almanac: composer Richard Wilson born in Cleveland.
TODAY’S EVENTS:
At 2:00 pm – Eric Charnofsky hosts the weekly radio broadcast Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music. Today’s program includes the third symphony of David Diamond, Bright Sheng’s My Song for piano, Secret Ground for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello by Judith Shatin, George Enescu’s Violin Sonata No. 3, and Allegro di Concerto “Alla Mendelssohn” for double bass and piano by Giovanni Bottesini. WRUW, Case Western Reserve University. Click here to listen to the internet feed.
To check out concerts happening this week see our Concert Listings.
NEWS BRIEFS:
Clarinetist Jazmin Pascual and percussionist Peter Loferski won the two top awards in Tuesday Musical’s 2022 Scholarship Competition Final Round/Winners Concert held on Sunday, May 15 in Akron. Guitarist Suvan Agarwal won the new People’s Choice Award.
Pascual, an undergraduate at the Cleveland Institute of Music, won the $2,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship. Loferski, a master’s candidate at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and a graduate of The University of Akron School of Music, won the $1,000 Arden J. Yockey Scholarship. And Agarwal, a student at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, garnered the most audience votes to win the newly endowed John M. Ream Jr., DDS People’s Choice Award of $500. Read a press release here.
New York Times critic Zachary Woolfe writes “that for the past 36 years Anthony Davis’s opera “X” has been more talked about than heard. And it was obvious, at the opening of a new production on Saturday at the Detroit Opera House, what “X” gains from being taken in live: Its stretches of incantation turn into something like a sacred rite.” Read Woolfe’s review here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
American composer Richard Wilson was born in Cleveland on May 16, 1941. Having imbibed concerts by The Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell at an early age, he went on to study at Harvard and Rutgers, then taught at Vassar from 1966 to 2016. Wilson was awarded the Cleveland Arts Prize in 1988.
He has a long list of compositions in every genre, so it’s worth wondering why we don’t hear more of his music in his hometown. For a taste of Wilson’s style, read about his “shaggy dog” opera, Aethelred The Unready, here, then watch a performance of the prologue of the opera conducted by the composer and directed by Drew Minter here.