by Stephanie Manning
HAPPENING TODAY:
Enjoy some brass quintet repertoire tonight at 7:30 pm, when the Rocky River Chamber Music Society presents Seraph Brass. The free concert from the all-female group (pictured) takes place at West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church.
Click here for more information and the livestream link, and here to read our website’s interview with horn player Layan Atieh.
To see what else is in store for this week, visit our Concert Listings.
GRAMMYS HONOR CLEVELANDERS:
The Grammy nominations are out, and with them comes some well-deserved celebrations for people and groups with ties to Northeast Ohio. We’ll compile a complete list soon, but here are the big headlines.
Cleveland producers Erika Brenner and Elaine Martone are both nominated for Producer of the Year, Classical. Martone’s credits this year include four albums with Franz Welser-Möst and The Cleveland Orchestra, while Brenner worked on two albums from Apollo’s Fire.
Handel: Israel in Egypt, which Brenner produced, is also up for Best Choral Performance. The nomination covers Apollo’s Fire, conductor Jeannette Sorrell, soloists Margaret Carpenter Haigh, Daniel Moody, Molly Netter, Jacob Perry, & Edward Vogel, and Apollo’s Singers.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Mahoning Matters reports that music director Sergey Bogza will leave the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra, citing “personal, health, and family reasons.” Bogza leaves the group after only four months, having assumed the post on July 1. Guest conductors Dean Buck and Edward Leonard will lead the YSO performances through the end of the year.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
by Daniel Hathaway
Never to be forgotten, “The Great War” (to end all wars) ended rather messily with the signing of an armistice at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918, having “claimed the lives of 116,000 Americans, through combat, disease and other causes, and killed millions more people around the world.” Read an article in The Washington Post here. The U.S. began marking Veterans Day in 1954, now called Memorial Day.
Never a better opportunity to hear (or re-hear) Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, built around WWI war poetry by Wilfrid Owen. Britten himself conducted this live television performance in August, 1964. The work was written for the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral (the old building had been destroyed during German bombing in WWII), and received its first performance on May 30, 1962. Let’s leave it at that.
