by Daniel Hathaway
IN THIS EDITION:
. COYO announces season with new conductor Daniel Reith (pictured), Watson moves on from Tri-C JazzFest, Piano Cleveland announces Young Artist Institute
. Weelkes and Gubaidulina share a birthdate
TODAY’S EVENTS:
At 2:00 pm join host Eric Charnofksy for Not Your Grandmother’s Classical Music. Today’s edition celebrates the birth anniversaries of George Crumb and Luciano Berio, featuring Crumb’s Four Nocturnes for violin and piano, Quest for guitar and chamber ensemble & Pastoral Drone for organ, Berio’s Eindrücke for orchestra, & Petite Suite for piano, plus a string quartet by Edvard Grieg and vocal music by Leoš Janáček. WRUW.
IN THE NEWS:
Tickets are now on sale for the 2022/23 Cleveland Orchestra Youth Orchestra (COYO) season. Over three performances on November 20, February 24, and May 5 at Severance Music Center, the ensemble will play works by Lili Boulanger, Prokofiev, Schubert (with the Cleveland Orchestra Youth Chorus), Brahms, and Kurt Schwertsik.
It’s the first COYO season under the direction of Daniel Reith, who was also named assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra in May. He previously worked with a youth orchestra in Norway, where he enjoyed seeing the energy and curiosity of young musicians, and he hopes to share a similarly rewarding experience with this talented Northeast Ohio ensemble. Click here for more information.
Tri-C JazzFest bids farewell to Associate Director Orlando Watson as he begins his new position as Senior Director of Programming at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, where he will manage The Black Bottom Film Fest and the Pittsburgh International Jazz Fest. But parting is not good-bye, and we’ll see his extraordinary artistry on stage in Cleveland from time to time.
In partnership with the Lang Lang Foundation, Piano Cleveland and the Cleveland Institute of Music are pleased to open applications for the 2023 Cleveland International Piano Institute for Young Artists.
If you are drawn to an experience that will prepare you for further professional study, the Institute will be a great fit for you. You will work closely with world-class faculty and top-level peers to hone your skills as a pianist and musician. The supportive environment of the Institute allows for optimal development while retaining the highest level of musical standards. The Institute is presented simultaneously with the 2023 CIPC for Young Artists Competition. Click here to apply.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
English Renaissance composer Thomas Weelkes was born on October 24 in 1575. One of the most brilliant madrigalists of the era of Elizabeth I, his name appeared recently in the playlist of VOCES8, who sang his As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending on the Tuesday Musical Series.
That was one of 25 part-songs by 23 composers published in 1601 by Thomas Morley in The Triumphs of Oriana, apparently a tribute to “The Virgin Queen,” though its connection to Elizabeth has been disputed. In any case, the collection marshals the talents of British composers in its depiction of an idealized England where nymphs and shepherds cavort in the countryside. Each madrigal ends with the refrain, ““Thus sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana: long live fair Oriana.”
Click here to listen to the entire collection, with some interpolated dance pieces, performed by the British ensemble i Fagiolini.
Centuries and worlds away, composer Sofia Gubaidulina was born on October 24, 1931 in the Tatar region of Russia. The New York Times took notice of the celebrations planned for her 90th birthday in a 2021 online article, At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts (click here to read). And go here to listen to Gidon Kremer play her Offertorium — Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, with Charles Dutoit and the Boston Symphony. “…the moving piece established Gubaidulina’s international reputation as something of a spiritualist.”
