by Daniel Hathaway
TODAY’S FEATURED VIDEOS:
At 2:00 pm, the third episode of Oberlin Stage Left includes the screening of Composed, a 78-minute documentary that explores the subject of performance anxiety in classical musicians. The film features members of such major orchestras as the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and Cleveland Orchestra (including solo English hornist Robert Walters,who also serves as professor of oboe at Oberlin), and Oberlin viola professor Peter Slowik. Oberlin flute professor Alexa Still talks with the film’s Rachel Lander before the screening. Click here at start time. The video will also be available on demand following the webcast.
In honor of the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, Apollo’s Fire invites you to watch the latest episode in its “Music for the Soul” series — a video of the orchestra’s 2017 “Beethoven the Revolution” concert in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Jeannette Sorrell leads 50 period instrumentalists in the Egmont Overture and Fifth Symphony, and Noah Bendix-Balgley solos in the Violin Concerto. Click here to watch, and here to read ClevelandClassical.com’s review of the performance.
Before the pandemic hit, violinist Ivan Ženaty was scheduled to perform on the Arts Renaissance Tremont series today with pianist Dmitri Vorobiev. Click here to listen to the CIM faculty member play César Franck’s Violin Sonata in Mixon Hall with faculty colleague Antonio Pompa-Baldi in January, 2018.
TODAY ON THE WEB:
Canadian cellist Elinor Frey, who has been a featured guest with Les Délices, plays music by J.S. Bach and Giuseppe Clemente Dall-abaco in a recital sponsored by the National Arts Centre. Today’s Cleveland Orchestra on the Radio program is a repeat performance of Michael Tilson Thomas’s Meditations on Rilke and Berlioz’ Symphonie Fantastique. And a Detroit Symphony watch party revisits the premiere of Kristen Kuster’s Dune Acres and Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony with Leonard Slatkin and Karina Canellakis at the helm. Check the Concert Listings for times and links.
INTERESTING READ:
The sometimes dystopian Canadian author Margaret Atwood has contributed an amusing quarantine diary to The Guardian. “How to make firelighters, combat squirrels and conduct a rubber chicken choir…the author shares practical tips from lockdown in Canada.” Click here to read.
