by Stephanie Manning
HAPPENING TODAY:
That’s a wrap on September concerts, with no more concerts on the docket today to end the month.
Looking ahead, we will welcome in October this week with groups like Les Délices, the Cleveland Pops, The Singers’ Club, and of course The Cleveland Orchestra. For more details, visit our Concert Listings.
INTERESTING READ:
How can we get more kids interested in classical music? Kwamé Ryan (pictured), the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra’s music director, offers his thoughts in an opinion piece for The Guardian.
Ryan discusses the importance of the “power of wow,” edutainment programming, and financial accessibility when it comes to inspiring the next generation. Read the full article here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
by Jarrett Hoffman
Today marks the anniversaries of the birth of Irish composer and organist Charles Villiers Stanford (1852) and Russian violinist David Oistrakh (pictured, 1908), and the death of American composer and music critic Virgil Thomson (1989).
A couple of local performances celebrate those musicians. Here, Quire Cleveland sings Stanford’s motet Beati quorum via under guest conductor Tim Brown at Trinity Cathedral in 2011. And here, Oistrakh joins George Szell and The Cleveland Orchestra in a 1969 recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto.
In 2020, the Metropolitan Opera presented Thomson’s The Mother of Us All (libretto by Gertrude Stein) in a collaboration with The Juilliard School and the New York Philharmonic on the eve of American social reformer and women’s rights activist Susan B. Anthony’s 200th birthday. Watch the video here.
