by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
Tonight at 7 pm at CentroVilla 25, Les Délices will present a free preview of its forthcoming program La Diosa, featuring a conversation with composer Gilda Lyons, whose new work, Soy La Diosa, celebrates the divine feminine in Central American myth.
Tonight at 7:30, The Cleveland Orchestra, conducted byAlain Altinoglu, and joined by cellist Alisa Weilerstein (pictured), will perform Unsuk Chin’s Cello Concerto and Richard Strauss’ tone poems Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks & Don Juan at Severance Music Center.
And at 7:30 in Warner Concert Hall, Timothy Weiss will conduct the Oberlin Sinfonietta in Tyshawn Sorey’s For George Lewis and George Lewis’ Arcades.
Visit our Concert Listings for details of these and other performances.
NEWS BRIEFS:
The Cleveland Institute of Music has announced that two new cello professors, Tom Landschoot and Jeffrey Noel Lastrapes, have been appointed to its faculty. Both teachers are currently accepting students who apply through the Fall 2026 Expedited Application route, which offers guaranteed scholarships of $30,000. Read the announcement here.
The Cleveland Orchestra writes that cellist “Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s ongoing recovery from his finger injury is taking longer than he had anticipated and, with huge regret, he must withdraw from all his concerts through the end of May.”
His sister Isata Kanneh-Mason will instead present a solo recital in Mandel Concert Hall on Tuesday, March 17 at 7:30. “Framed by Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight’ and ‘Waldstein’ sonatas, the program journeys from Ravel’s challenging Gaspard de la nuit to two moving contemporary works by Dobrinka Tabakova.”
Original manuscript of Gyórgy Kurtág’s 1959 Wind Quintet, Op. 2, turns up at the Liszt Academy. Read the Violin Channel story here.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
Howard Hanson, American conductor, composer, and longtime director of the Eastman School of Music, died on this date in 1981 in Rochester, NY.
An unrepentant Romantic, Hanson left a legacy of expressive works that deserve more performances than they receive these days. His Second Symphony, subtitled “Romantic” sets the tone here in a performance by the Peabody Symphony led by Joseph Young.
Flutist Erika Boysen illustrates a performance of his Serenade for flute, harp, and strings with American artwork here, and organist Thomas Sheehan is featured in his Concerto for Organ, Strings, and Harp in a concert from Harvard’s Memorial Church led by University Organist Edward Elwyn Jones.
And here’s a performance of Hanson’s mystical Cherubic Hymn led by the composer.
On February 26 of 2013, French organist Marie-Claire Alain made her personal sortie at the age of 86 in the Paris suburb of Le Pecq. She succeeded her father as organist of the church of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, playing there for 40 years.
Among her 260 recordings are three complete cycles of the works of J.S. Bach. Watch a brief documentary here, and hear her perform his Fantasia in G (aka Pièce d’Orgue) here. And be a fly on the wall as she gives a lesson to a Czech organ student in 2006.
