by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. Today’s concert listings page lists two events of note
. In the News: ENCORE Chamber Music announces summer events
. The Almanac: Buxtehude exits, Horowitz returns
TODAY’S EVENTS:
At 2:00 pm Eric Charnofsky brings you the latest edition of his Radio Broadcast: Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music on Program on WRUW FM 91.1. The program includes the Piano Sonata by Paul Dukas, Anton Webern’s Five Movements for String Quartet, the Sonata for solo violin by Béla Bartók transcribed for viola, and a sonata for flute and basso continuo by Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht. Click here to listen to the internet feed.
At 7:30 pm at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, the Rocky River Chamber Music Society will present the Grigoryan Brothers Duo (Australia, pictured), Slava and Leonard Grigoryan, classical guitar.
Their program will include J.S. Bach’s Arioso BWV 156, Handel’s Keyboard Suite HWV 452, Granados’ Valses Poéticos, Gnattali’s Suite Retratos, Brouwer’s Blue Mountains, and the Grigoryan Brothers’ Six Original Pieces (“This is Us Project”) and Sailboat Suite. The concert is free and will be livestreamed on the RRCMS’ YouTube channel.
NEWS BRIEFS:
Artistic Director Jinjoo Cho has announced details of ENCORE Chamber Music Institute’s 2022 summer season at Gilmour Academy in Gates Mills. View the event schedule here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Today we commemorate the death of North German organist and composer Dietrich Buxtehude in 1707.
Buxtehude, who invented the Advent Abendmusik concerts and served as Werckmeister as well as organist of St. Mary’s Church in Lübeck (imagine him placing candle orders and keeping an eye on custodians while composing those stylus fantasticus organ preludes), inspired J.S. Bach to take an unauthorized leave to study with him.
For a taste of his compositions, listen to his seven-verse cantata Membra Jesu Nostri (1680, performed here by the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under René Jacobs), his Praeludium in C, BuxWV 136 (performed in 2008 by Kirk M. Rich on the Flentrop organ in Oberlin’s Warner Concert Hall), and his Praeludium in d, BuxWV 140, played here on the Arp Schnitger organ in Norden by Thiemo Janssen).
And for something completely different, on May 9, 1965, pianist Vladimir Horowitz returned to the concert stage in New York’s Carnegie Hall after a twelve-year hiatus, his recital — at 3:30 pm on a Sunday, of course — marked by a 30-minute standing ovation. The event became legendary, but for an unvarnished account, read Charles Michener’s behind-the-scenes look, “The Singular Horowitz Remembered, Warts and All” in The Observer.