by Daniel Hathaway
MONDAY’S AGENDA:
Les Délices’ SalonEra 2.4 — Divine Love premieres today, featuring CWRU Scholar Susan McClary, cornettist Alexandra Opsahl, and tenor Jason McStoots in ecstatic music from a very special corner of the seventeenth century. Tune in at 7:30 pm to hear performances of works by Schütz, Cozzolani, and Charpentier. Register here to view online and on demand after debut. Suggested donation $10.
NEWS BRIEFS:
Oberlin Conservatory has announced the winners of its senior concerto competition, held on Sunday in Finney Chapel. In alphabetic order, musicians who will perform later this season with the Oberlin Orchestra or Chamber Orchestra are: Leo Choi (Samuel Barber: Piano Concerto, Op. 38), David Lee (cello, Sergei Prokofiev: Sinfonia Concertante in E Minor, Op. 125), Evyn Levy (Aaron Copland: Concerto for Clarinet and String Orchestra), and Johnum Palado (Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 63).
Judges for the contest included Norman Fischer, Professor of Cello, Rice University Shepherd School of Music, Alexander Korsantia Professor of Piano, New England Conservatory, Bramwell Tovey, conductor, pianist, composer, and Music Director Designate of the Sarasota Orchestra, Principal Conductor of the BBC Concert Orchestra, and Alain Trudel conductor, trombonist, composer, and Music Director of the Toledo Symphony.
Les Délices announces that the shelf life of its online programs will be extended beyond the announced expiration dates. Its Song of Orpheus, and the four future programs in the Baroque ensemble’s concert series will now be available until June 30.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On this date in 1890, Belgian-born French composer César Franck died in Paris, his demise partially attributed to the after effects of injuries he sustained when a cab he was riding in collided with a horse-drawn trolley.
Franck’s most celebrated works are for the organ, including the Trois Chorales completed during the last year of his life. Click here to watch French organist Vincent Dubois play No. 3 in a minor at Soissons Cathedral. Dubois, who performed at St. John’s Cathedral in Cleveland in November, 2015, is now one of the three tenured organists at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris.
Otherwise, the composer left only one Symphony, performed here by Pierre Monteux and the Chicago Symphony, with a follow-along score. Among his chamber works are the popular and dramatic Violin Sonata, played here by ChamberFest Cleveland rising stars Nathan Meltzer and Evren Ozel in Harkness Chapel at CWRU. (It’s frequently poached by cellists, as well as the occasional flutist — which just doesn’t quite seem right for the material.)
Born on this date in 1906 in Cambridge, MA, American composer, conductor, and lutenist Rudolph Arnold Dolmetsch was the son of early music revival pioneer Arnold Dolmetsch, who settled with his family in the English village of Haslemere in 1914 and maintained a workshop for period instruments.
Rudolph eventually veered off in his own direction, but kept one foot in the early music world, as shown by his Concertino for Viola da Gamba and Small Orchestra from 1941. Click here for a performance by the Concord Chamber Orchestra.
And on this date in 1991, American musicologist and pianist John Kirkpatrick left us, but his legacy as the authority on the music of Charles Ives and as the composer’s archivist remains strong. Among his signal achievements, the first recording of Ives’ thorny Concord Sonata. Listen here.
