by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 8, the University of Akron JazzWeek 2025 continues with sets by the UA Jazz Ensemble and Birth of the Cool Ensemble at Musica.
For details of these and other events, please visit our Concert Listings page.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Roger Mastroianni, the photographer probably best known to our readers for his images of the Cleveland Orchestra, points his cameras at other Cleveland subjects as well.
As Peter Chakerian writes on Cleveland.com, “His photo exhibition, “Long View of Cleveland – Capturing Time and Motion,” features photo exposures up to as long as 10-minutes long – capturing landmarks and cityscapes with quiet majesty, evolving energy, and beauty with remarkable clarity and depth.”
The exhibition is on view through June 30 at University Hospital’s Wisenberger Gallery in the lobby of the Humphrey Building at 11100 Euclid Avenue.
ALMANAC:
On this date in 1847, newspaper magnate Joseph Pulitzer (caricatured above), publisher of the St. Louis Dispatch, was born in Mako, Hungary. His will (he died in 1911) left $2 million for the establishment of the school of journalism at Columbia University and endowed the Pulitzer Prizes, which, beginning in 1943, included an annual award for a classical musical composition by an American composer.
In the late 1990s, the entry rules were expanded to include a wider range of American music, and the first such prize recognized Wynton Marsalis’ 1997 Blood on the Fields. George Gershwin and Duke Ellington were subsequently honored on their anniversary years in 1998 and 1999.
It’s interesting to read down the list of Pulitzer Prize winners in music, both to see what works have passed into wide use and which seem to have fallen by the wayside. Click here to view.
Elsewhere on April 10, Brahms’ German Requiem received its first performance at a Good Friday concert in Bremen in 1868, and two major works for clarinet were premiered — Poulenc’s Sonata at Carnegie Hall by Benny (Goodman) and Lenny (Bernstein) in 1963, and Joan Tower’s Concerto by Charles Neidich and the American Symphony, led by Jorge Mester, in 1988.
And notable births on April 10 include French jazz pianist and composer Claude Bolling (1930, in Cannes) and Uzbek pianist Yefim Bronfman (1958 in Tashkent).
