by Daniel Hathaway
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CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA TODAY:
Today’s 4:00 pm broadcast on WCLV, 104.9 FM and on the web features conductor Loren Maazel and cellist Mstislav Rostropovich in a performance from March of 1975. Program includes Rossini’s La Gazza Ladra: Overture, Haydn’s Cello Concerto in C, Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto in C, J.S. Bach’s Sarabande (encore) & Richard Strauss’s Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks.
TIMED EVENTS STREAMING TODAY:
Trombonist David Binder will host a Detroit Symphony Watch Party today at 3:00 pm featuring Schubert’s Ninth Symphony in an archive performance led by guest conductor Juanuo Mena. Join the stream here.
SUNDAY’S ONLINE HIGHLIGHTS:
Heights Chamber Orchestra was to have played a concert at St. Paul’s Church in Cleveland Heights this afternoon that included P.D.Q. Bach/Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 Sportscast – New Horizons in Music Appreciation, with Eric Kisch as announcer and Jim Mehrling as color man. In lieu of that live performance (which has been postponed), enjoy 10-½ minutes of Peter Schickele’s brilliant parody here (Peter Jacoby conducts Orchestra X).
On a more serious note, here’s an excerpt from Heights Chamber Orchestra’s concert on February 16, 2020 at the Church of the Gesu. Tenor Brian Skoog sings Keats’ “Sonnet” from Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings. Dean Buck conducts (hornist Van Parker sits this movement out).
Apollo’s Fire has released a new video of its October 12, 2018 performance of Mozart’s Ballet Music from Idomeneo (arranged by Jeannette Sorrell), recorded in Gartner Auditorium at the Cleveland Museum of Art. Players include violinists Johanna Novom, Susanna Perry Gilmore, Adriane Post, violist Karina Schmitz, cellist René Schiffer, bassist Sue Yelanjian,, flutist Kathie Stewart, oboists Debra Nagy bassoonist Stephanie Corwin, hornist Todd Wilson, trumpeter Steve Marquardt, and timpanist Matthew Bassett.
Quire Cleveland invites you to listen to audio recordings by John Konopka from its February 29, 2020 “Journey Home: Finding Unity After Loss” concert at St. Vitus Church. Click here to hear selections by Thomas Tallis, Mikołaj Zieleński, Jacob Handl, and Robert White (scroll down to “Concert Recordings.”
On what would have been the last day of Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival, the organizers have selected a few performances given elsewhere by artists who were scheduled to appear in this year’s lineup. The selections include a Spotify playlist and several videos. Click here for the menu and links.