by Daniel Hathaway
HAPPENING TODAY:
2:00 pm – Ohio Light Opera. George and Ira Gershwin’s Tip-Toes. Freedlander Theatre at The College of Wooster.
6:30 pm – Canton Symphony Summer Serenades presents a Brass Quintet at Foltz Community Center, East Canton.
7:00 pm – The Cleveland Orchestra: Summers at Severance. Mozart’s Don Giovanni Overture and Violin Concerto No. 3 with Marie Jacquot, conductor, and Randall Goosby, violin (pictured), and Richard Strauss’s Symphony in F minor (Cleveland Orchestra premiere). Mandel Concert Hall at Severance Music Center.
9:00 pm — Live Music at The Happy Dog. Neal Todten, a New Orleans-based composer & keyboardist, will perform his organ score for the film House of Direction, Jacob Kirkwood and Buck McDaniel will present co-composed electroacoustic works, and Andrew Elaban will open the evening with an ambient electronic set.
TODAY’S ALMANAC:
On July 10, 1835, Polish violin virtuoso and composer Henryk Wieniawski was born in Lubin, Poland. Joshua Bell has recorded his Second Concerto for Decca with Vladimir Ashkenazy and The Cleveland Orchestra, but for a more recent dose of Wieniawski, click here to watch Augustin Hadelich play both the violin and piano parts of the Scherzo-Tarantella from his home in May during the “COVID-19 hiatus.”
And on this date in 1895, German composer and educator Carl Orff was born in Munich. Hands-down, his most performed work is his cantata, Carmina Burana, based on the medieval German and Latin poetry of scholars who lived off the hospitality of monasteries while wandering through Europe.
So popular and recognizable is its first chorus, “O Fortuna,” that The Cleveland Orchestra and Chorus recorded it for use as in-game intros for the 2014 season of the Cleveland Cavaliers (watch Assistant Conductor Andrew Grams leading the ensembles for the recording session here.)
Hear a complete performance led by Osmo Vänskä with The Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom Choruses at Blossom Music Center on Saturday, July 12 at 7:00 pm.
