by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7:30 in Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, guest conductor Kazuki Yamada and pianist Francesco Piemontesi join The Cleveland Orchestra for Wolfgang Amadé Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, and the Orchestra completes the evening’s program with Edward Elgar’s Symphony No. 1. Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center, 11001 Euclid Ave., Cleveland. Tickets available online.
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TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On April 24 of 1801, Joseph Haydn put the final touches on his oratorio The Seasons and performed it on the same day at the Schwartzenberg Palace in Vienna. Cleveland Orchestra Music Director Franz Welser-Möst talks about the work here before conducting it at Severance Hall in April of 2013 (he led the work again in January of 2018). Listen to a full performance from the 2013 Salzburg Festival here. The late Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts.
On this date in 1934, Chicago inventor Laurens Hammond patented his electric organ, little realizing that a later model, the Hammond B3 — when teamed up with Leslie speakers — would become a prominent voice in jazz. Click here to listen to a set by the young phenomenon Matthew Whitaker, who turned many heads in his debut at Tri-C JazzFest. The performance is from the 2019 Jazzahead! festival in Bremen, Germany.
And 25 years ago this week, flutist Claire Chase and her colleagues in the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble gave a concert of five world premieres led by Timothy Weiss in Warner Concert Hall that would inspire the creation of ICE, the International Contemporary Ensemble, a year later. Chase later unearthed an audio recording of the event. Listen here.
